The Advisory Board
The Advisory Board for Accelerating the Transition is composed of industry leaders and experts across science, policy, business, and grassroots advocacy. Their insight helps bridge the gap between the urgent demand for climate action and the policies needed to make it happen.
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John Berger
Director
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Emmett Marsh
DESIGN DIRECTOR
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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Eleanor Parks
SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
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The Advisory Board
The Advisory Board for Accelerating the Transition is composed of industry leaders and experts across science, policy, business, and grassroots advocacy. Their insight helps bridge the gap between the urgent demand for climate action and the policies needed to make it happen.
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Cari A. Harris is a multifaceted leader, dedicated to driving economic, community, and organizational development. As the co-founder of the HBCU Environmental Justice Technical (HEJT) Collaborative, she focuses on sustainability, environmental justice, and economics projects. At the intersection of climate resiliency, racial equity and technology, the HEJT Collaborative is committed to empowering environmental justice (EJ) stakeholders by enhancing their research, organizational development, and decision-making capabilities through technical assistance and the use of advanced tools and systems.
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Eleanor LeCain is an advisor to US and international policymakers, candidates, and donors as well as an author and speaker about breakthrough solutions. She builds on decades of experience in government and campaigns to show practical pathways toward a better America and a new world.
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Ken Alex, Esq. is the Director of Project Climate at the UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, and the environment, focusing on the most promising climate solutions and moving them more quickly to policy and scale. He is the architect of the Under2 Coalition, an international and holds a B.A. in political theory from the University of California at Santa Cruz. organization of over 200 sub-national jurisdictions representing 40 percent of world GDP, leading world action on climate change. California Lawyer named Ken an “Attorney of the Year” in 2004 for his work in energy law, and he received the ABA award for Distinguished Achievement in Environmental Law and Policy in 2007 for global warming work.
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Louise Bedsworth is the Executive Director at the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment (CLEE) at the University of California, Berkeley where she also serves as a Senior Advisor to the California China Climate Institute. Before joining CLEE, Louise spent nearly a decade working for the State of California, most recently as the Executive Director of the Strategic Growth Council,
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Kurt Shickman is a Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute supporting the institute’s program on heat resilience within the cities, buildings, and energy teams. Prior to that he was a Buildings Heat Professional with KS Advisory after directing the Atlantic Council's Climate Resilience Center (ARSHT-Rock), which builds human capacity for resilience in the face of climate impacts.