Join us at the fourth annual California Climate Policy Summit on Tuesday, April 22, 2025 in Sacramento. Hear from state decision-makers, elected officials, climate activists, environmental justice advocates, business leaders, scientists, and policy experts to build power across California in support of science-based climate policies. Learn what visionary climate leaders are doing to accelerate the equitable phase-out of fossil fuels, scale up carbon sequestration, and build a resilient and clean energy system. Engage in discussions about legislation and regulatory issues under debate in Sacramento. Connect with professionals pioneering critical climate strategies in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
Mike McGuire was elected to the California State Senate in 2014, and re-elected in 2018 and again in 2022. He became the Majority Leader in 2022, and now serves as President pro Tempore of the Senate.
Leigh has received a Global Citizen Award from the UN, an Angel Award from the LA City Council, an Outstanding Citizen Award from LA County, etc. The awards were lost along with a lifetime of memories when her home and art studio burned in the Eaton Fire.
Dawn Addis was elected to the California State Assembly in 2022 to represent the 30th Assembly District. Assemblymember Addis chairs the Assembly Select Committee on Offshore Wind Energy in California.
As a co-founder of California Youth vs. Big Oil, Aguirre was part of the fight to get lifesaving oil and gas policies signed into law.
Vikrum Aiyer works to align climate policy, legislative strategies, and community benefits agreements to accelerate carbon mineralization sciences that can remove greenhouse gases from the air
Newsha K. Ajami is the Chief Strategic Development Officer for Research in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
Dr. Jasmin Ansar researches and develops optimal policies to address the climate change emergency at speed and scale. Dr. Ansar is an economist who began her career as a professor and has been employed in both the private and public sectors.
Kylie Baranowski serves as Legislative Director for Assemblymember Dawn Addis. In this capacity, she works on behalf of the residents of Assembly District 30, which includes parts of Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Luis Obispo Counties.
Senator Josh Becker is a public policy innovator working at the nexus of community activism, technology, and social justice.
Clesi leads the production and coordination of research and technical work underpinning the Agency’s climate policies and strategic projects, including California’s Nature-Based Solutions Climate Targets, Climate Smart Lands Strategy, and more.
Elizabeth Betancourt joined the Department of Conservation as Natural and Working Lands Policy Advisor in 2021. Elizabeth integrates a passion for cross-sector innovation and science-based discovery with natural pragmatism and a proclivity for solutions.
Ryan and his team work with a diverse suite of partners including state and federal agencies, tribes, land trusts, other NGOs, and universities building coalitions and innovating new approaches to answer important questions and bring science to action.
Sydney's work focuses on exploring policy and economic pathways to scale and accelerate the use of nature-based climate solutions, with an emphasis on wetland restoration in the Delta.
Alejandra Chiesa is a Vice President at Green Schoolyards America, leading efforts to scale the green schoolyard movement in California.
As a movement lawyer, Connie is passionate about democratizing access to the law and the power to govern.
Ellie Cohen, CEO of The Climate Center, is a leader in catalyzing cross-boundary, collaborative and just solutions to climate change and environmental degradation.
Sachu Constantine is the Executive Director of Vote Solar. From 2017 to 2022, Sachu served as Vote Solar’s Regulatory Managing Director, as well as the organization’s Interim Executive Director in 2021.
Mr. Cremins oversees politics and policy for the IUOE in their Western Region. He is also the Director of Education and Research for the California-Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers.
Bob Epstein is an entrepreneur and engineer with a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of five companies.
Anthony works directly with Silicon Valley Clean Energy member jurisdictions and others on advancing decarbonization programs, projects, and policies.
Samer is an experienced Electrical Engineer with ~10 years in utility and renewables experience in the industry and at the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. He has supported various solar, distributed energy resource (DER) programs and projects.
Gregg Fishman has served on the SMUD Board of Directors since 2014. A strong advocate for clean energy, he promoted wind and solar during his early career at SMUD and the California Independent System Operator.
Tim Frank is a policy advisor for the Construction Trades Workforce Initiative and a co-convenor of the Workforce and EJ Alliance. He is a recognized green building, climate and energy policy expert.
Quentin Gee oversees forecasting of new electrification technologies (transportation, building electrification, and energy efficiency).
Commissioner Siva Gunda is serving his first term on the California Energy Commission. Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Gunda in February 2021 to serve as the Energy Commission’s public member.
Gutierrez has been with the Energy Commission since 2007, having worked in the Fuels and Transportation Division to develop the Clean Transportation Program.
Harper translates technical and commercial advancements in enhanced geothermal systems (“EGS”) into improved government policy, everything from power system planning to smart permitting policies.
Lance Hastings leads a prominent business-oriented trade association. Under his leadership, CMTA passed historic legislation to provide a sales tax exemption for manufacturing equipment with a broad, bipartisan coalition.
Barbara Haya is a Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. Her work has been featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg News, the Guardian, and MIT Technology Review.
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe (via Zoom)
Dr. Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist. She is the Chief Scientist for The Nature Conservancy and a Horn Distinguished Professor and Endowed Professor of Public Policy and Public Law at Texas Tech University.
Allison works closely with the initiative leaders and other staff to ensure California implements policies that effectively reduce climate pollution and secure resilient communities.
Tom Hobby, has over 25 years of experience in forestry, academic research, biomass utilization, bioenergy, consulting, and executive management, and has more than 15 years of bioenergy commercialization and executive experience.
As 35-year member of USW Local 675, Gary began his career in the oil industry in 1990 as an Operator at ARCO’s Carson, CA refinery. For the last 22 years, he has handled arbitrations and negotiations for the Local Union.
Miles leverages the organization’s unique position on the cutting edge of the energy transition to help inform policy discussions around clean energy, infrastructure buildout, electric rates, and more.
Maya is the Charge Ahead Campaign Coordinator at Communities for a Better Environment, a state-wide clean and equitable transportation campaign.
Fatima Iqbal-Zubair has led on many key climate priorities over the past several years, including AB 3233, AB 1866, and AB 2716. She has also been co-chair of Blue Green Alliance working closely with labor to support high-road and high-quality jobs.
Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin represents California’s 42nd Assembly District, which includes portions of Ventura and LA Counties. She has championed the environment with laws that expanded the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy.
Virginia Jameson was appointed Deputy Secretary for Climate and Working Lands at the California Department of Food and Agriculture in November 2021.
Kurt Johnson is the Community Energy Resilience Director for The Climate Center. Kurt worked at the U.S. EPA for eleven years where he founded the EPA renewable energy program, the Green Power Partnership.
Debra Kahn is California policy editor at POLITICO where she oversees California Climate, our daily newsletter about how the politics of climate change are shaping the state’s future.
Dan Kalb recently completed 12 years on the Oakland City Council. He authored legislation to require new buildings to be all-electric, divest city holdings from fossil fuels interests, and more.
Anna Bella manages the company's policy and regulatory affairs strategy in California and leads the company’s collaboration with state agencies, utilities, and local jurisdictions on the design of Vehicle Grid Integration rates and programs and more.
A driving force behind vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology advancements, Hamza Lemsaddek leads Nuvve Holding Corp.'s technology and AI innovations
Lolly Lim studies the impact of policies and advances solutions to actualize equitable climate investments. Lolly’s previous work has been rooted in understanding the impacts of climate change on under-resourced communities and uplifting solutions.
Roger works in the Center’s Energy Justice program advocating for equitable clean energy. Before joining the Center, he worked with environmental justice organizations across California and has litigated environmental justice and civil rights cases.
Erika Lovejoy develops innovative policy and regulatory strategies to accelerate habitat restoration across California in collaboration with landowners, NGOs, and government agencies.
Shawn Marshall leads a team of 50 providing affordable, clean electricity to over 310,000 customers in San Mateo County and the City of Los Banos.
Julia May provides engineering analysis and regulatory policy development on oil refineries and other industrial pollution sources.
Beckie oversees political strategy and execution and coalition building to advance climate policy and equitable building decarbonization in California. Before joining the BDC, Beckie worked on energy programs for CCAs.
California Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi represents the 66th Assembly District, located in the Los Angeles South Bay and Harbor Area.
Colin is an expert on low-carbon fuel policy, especially California's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard.
Mr. Nudd oversees rule development, climate policy programs, regional and community-scale air quality planning, ambient air quality monitoring, and the Public Health Office.
Bre supports partnerships and capacity building of regional Soil, Water, and Working Lands Hubs across the State. She serves as a convener and project facilitator to bring producer needs and solutions into programs, policy, and communications efforts.
As a member of the State Assembly, Diane is focused on investing in strategies to address climate change and the related challenges of flooding, drought, and wildfires, among other things.
Edson Perez leads Advanced Energy United’s legislative and political engagement in California.
Jason (he/him) works with the Center for Biological Diversity to fight pollution from oil and gas extraction and to hold polluters accountable.
Dan Ress provides technical and policy assistance to low-income communities of color in the San Joaquin Valley. Their work focuses on California state climate justice policy, especially oil and gas, carbon management, and carbon markets.
Alex Ricklefs is a Program Manager at Clean Power Alliance focused on community solar and battery storage implementation.
Alicia Rivera is an organizer for Communities for a Better Environment in Wilmington and has been a lead Oil Refinery Organizer in California for over 20 years.
Shruti’s research focuses on climate change policy, with an emphasis on the challenges of decarbonizing our transportation & energy systems and moving promising climate solutions to policy and scale.
Sara Shor is the Director of Organizing with Fossil Free Media and helps coordinate the National Make Polluters Pay Campaign.
Adria examines TURN’s policies, practices and positions on utility-consumer advocacy work to eradicate structural and/or institutional racism that exists in utility regulatory practice.
Albert is a proud member of the Nisenan, Miwok, Maidu, and Madesi band of the Pit River Nation, raised in his ancestral homelands of Sacramento.
Albert G. Titman, Nisenan/Miwok/ Maidu/ Pit River CADCII . Deputy Director for the Native Dads Network and formerly Associate Director of Cultural Integration and Development at Sprenger behavioral Medicine for the TeleWell Indian Health MAT project.
Mr. Tran serves as Deputy Executive Officer of Public Affairs and oversees the Air District’s Communications, Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs, and Outreach/Special Projects functions.
For more than 25 years, Katie Valenzuela has empowered communities, organizations, and coalitions to engage in state and local policy. She has built legislative campaigns for environmental justice, public health and safety, housing access, and more.
Vicki Veenker is the Vice Mayor of Palo Alto and the Vice Chair of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Board, where she chairs the Policy, Grants and Technology Committee.
Michael Wara is a lawyer and a senior research scholar at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, as well as Senior Director for Policy at the Sustainability Accelerator within the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
Charlene recently retired from the CA Geologic Energy Management Division. She spent 20+ years at The Geysers in various roles.
Vincent Weyl is a VGI Principal in the Fuels and Transportation Division of the California Energy Commission. In this role, he acts as the subject matter expert for the topics of Vehicle-Grid Integration and interoperability of EV charging technologies.
Veronica Wilson joined Labor Network for Sustainability in 2018. She now supports unions across the state that are strengthening the labor-climate movement and advocating for an equitable transition for workers and communities.
Zach leads regulatory, policy, and market development efforts, covering utility rate and program design, interconnection rules and regulations, and managed charging and V2X technology in the leading VGI markets.
Walker Wright is the VP of Public Policy 7 Head of External Affairs for Sunrun, the largest distributed solar, energy storage, and energy services company in the United States.
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