SPEAKERS
Abigail Dillen
President @ Earthjustice
opening keynote
abigail dillen, president @ earthjustice
(Note: The Opening Keynote address previously featured California Senator Henry Stern (D-27), who was recently called into a special session of the California Senate convening on October 11.)
Panel: Collaborative Approaches to Engaging Tribes in Land Use Planning
Mary Adelzadeh
Senior Program Officer @ First Nations Development Institute
Nicholas Laluk
Assistant Professor @ University of California, Berkeley Department of Anthropology
Panel: Innovative reuse of land for decarbonization
Marybeth Benton
Energy Projects Director @ The Nature Conservancy
Mark Quarles
Environmental and Permitting Manager @ RWE Clean Energy
Lucero Weber
West Coast Community Engagement Manager @ RWE Clean Energy
Kate Gordon
CEO @ California Forward
Former Senior Advisor @ DOE
Panel: Building Global Climate Resilience
Innovation, Finance, and Equity
Emilie Mazzacurati
Co-Founder and Managing Partner @ Tailwind
Eric K. Chu
Senior Planner @ California Governor's Office of Planning and Research (OPR)
Associate Professor @ University of California, Davis
Morgan Richmond
Manager @ Climate Policy Initiative
Ashok Gadghil
Distinguished Professor Emeritus @ University of California, Berkeley
Panel: burning issues
Wildfires, Insurance, and Adaptation
Michael Gollner
Berkeley Fire Research Center
Dave Winnacker
Fire Chief, Moraga-Orinda District
Jay Ribakove
Principal @ Convective Capital
Daniel Wholey
Head of Strategy and Partnerships @ Rain Industries
Panel: Beyond the drought
Environmental Justice and Water Access
Jenny Rampel
Berkeley Sustainable Health and Equity Lab
Cody Phillips
Staff Attorney @ California Coastkeeper Alliance
Ngodoo Atume
Small Farms Technical Assistance Coordinator @ UCANR
Pedro Hernandez
Public Lands Advocate @ GreenLatinos
Deputy Director @ Central Valley Air Quality (CVAQ) Coalition
PaneL: understanding chevron deference
What It Was, Why It Mattered, and What Happens Now That It’s Gone
Sharon Jacobs
Professor of Law @ University of California, Berkeley
Ian Fein
Senior Counsel, Litigation Strategy @ NRDC
Dave Owen
Associate Dean for Research and Harry Sunderland '61 Professor of Law @ University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
David Hochschild
California Energy Commission Chair