Leadership
Board of Directors
Aram Nadjarian
Founder and CEO of Mozaic Media & Communications
Capri Maddox
Special Assistant City Attorney, Chief Officer of COVID Response Equity, & Director of new Department of Civil and Human Rights for the City of Los Angeles
Cara Horowitz
Co-Executive Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change
David Nahai
President of David Nahai Consulting Services, LLC
Denise Fairchild
President and CEO of Emerald Cities Collaborative
Larry Kopald
Partner at Kopald/Stranger
Michael Swords
Board President of Climate Resolve and Vice President of Government Relations of the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Victor Griego
President and Founder of Diverse Strategies for Organizing, Inc.
Thomas Wong
Board President of the San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District
Kellie Hawkins
Senior Vice President of Englander, Knabe & Allen
Suja Lowenthal
City Manager, City of Hermosa Beach
Advisory Board
Lauren Bon
Artist, Metabolic Studio*
Mark Herrema
Partner, Newlight Technologies*
Betty Yee
Controller, State of California*
Shelia Kuehl
Supervisor, County of Los Angeles*
Ben Allen
Senator, State of California*
Hasan Ikhrata
Executive Director, SANDAG*
Mike Feuer
City Attorney, City of Los Angeles*
Tom Unterman
Rustic Canyon*
Robert Garcia
Mayor, City of Long Beach*
Joe Edmiston
Executive Director, Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy*
Jeff Kightlinger
General Manager, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California*
Paul Koretz
Councilmember, City of LA*
Laura Rosenthal
Bruce Saito
Director, California Conservation Corps*
Mike Bonin
Councilmember, City of LA*
Paul Krekorian
Councilmember, City of LA*
Nury Martinez
Council President, City of LA*
Sam Schuchat
Executive Officer, California State Coastal Conservancy*
Mia Lehrer
Principal, Mia Lehrer + Associates*
Peter Kareiva
Director, UCLA IoES*
Kevin McKeown
Councilmember, City of Santa Monica*
Romel Pascual
Executive Director, CicLAvia*
Michael Gagan
Partner, Kindel Gagan*
Robin Kramer
Executive Director, Harbor Freight Tools for Schools*
Ted Winterer
Councilmember, City of Santa Monica*
Irma Muñoz
Chair,
Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy*
* for identification purposes only.