Speakers

Michael W. Beck, PhD, Director, Center for Coastal Climate Resilience & AXA Chair in Coastal Resilience, UC Santa Cruz

Michael Berkowitz, Executive Director, Climate Resilience Institute, University of Miami

Alejandra Borunda, Reporter, National Public Radio (NPR)

Juliano Calil, PhD, Founder, Virtual Planet Technologies, Senior Fellow, Center for the Blue Economy at Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

Emily Cerf, Engineering Writer & Media Relations Specialist, Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz 

Erika Check Hayden, Director of Science Communication Program, UC Santa Cruz

Lagipoiva Cherelle Jackson, Journalist, and Director of the Pacific Islands and Climate Change New Narratives

Frances Colón, Senior Fellow, International Climate, Center for American Progress

Maria Elena De La Garza, Executive Director, Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County

Cynthia Ellis, Ambassador at Large, Garifuna Nation

Javier González-Rocha, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Tom Hayden, Director of Masters of Arts in Earth Systems, Environmental Communications Program, Stanford University

Jonathan Hicken, Executive Director, UC Santa Cruz Seymour Marine Discovery Center

Egbert Higinio, President, Garifuna Nation

Katherine Isbister,PhD, Research Director, Social Emotional Technology Lab Jack Baskin Endowed Chair in Engineering, Professor, UC Santa Cruz

Sikina Jinnah, PhD, Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Director, Center for Reimagining Leadership, UC Santa Cruz

Kristy Kroeker, PhD, Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Associate Dean of Research and Research Impact, Physical & Biological Sciences Division, UC Santa Cruz

Cynthia Larive, Chancellor, UC Santa Cruz 

Julisa Lopez, PhD, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, UC Santa Cruz, Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Member

Erin Loury,  Communications Manager, Coastal Watershed Council

Edward Maibach, PhD, Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication, George Mason University

Mekdela Maskal, Covering Climate Now

John P. O'Brien, Program Officer, Heising-Simons Foundation

Halle Parker, Coastal Desk Reporter, New Orleans Public Radio, President, Society of Environmental Journalists

Susanne Rust, LA Times investigative journalist

Mark Schapiro, Investigative Journalist and Author, lecturer, UC Berkeley

Mark Schrope, Director, Schmidt Marine Sciences

Alexii Sigona, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Center for Reimagining Leadership, UC Santa Cruz

Lissany Topsey, Forest Gardener, Research Assistant, Youth Mentor, Conflict Resolution Facilitator

Narciso Torres, PhD, Master Forest Gardener, Citizen Scientist, Indigenous Network Belize, UCSB Chancellor's Award

Anja Ufleldt, Visiting Scholar & Artist in Residence, OpenLab Climate Action Lab, UC Santa Cruz, Lecturer in Experimental Media Arts, Stanford University

Danielle Venton, KQED science reporter

Dr. Tiffany Wise-West PhD, City of Santa Cruz Sustainability and Resiliency Officer