Spotlights

Margaret is passionate about building communities that work together for the collective good. She has worked at local nonprofits included 826 Valencia and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, [...]

Margaret is passionate about building communities that work together for the collective good. She has worked at local nonprofits included 826 Valencia and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, [...]

Debra Baida is a life organizer and coach and the founder of Liberated Spaces. She helps overwhelmed and variously disorganized clients throughout the Bay Area and beyond make room in their lives [...]

Hannah Wells is fiercely committed to helping businesses to be a force for good. She is passionate about leveraging sustainability and storytelling to build employee and customer retention. She [...]

Melis Ökter is an environmental scientist and coastal planner aiding local governments in developing sea level rise and coastal hazard policies. Currently a coastal planner at Dudek, she helps [...]

Lisa Baldinger is the newest member of the East Bay Regional Park District’s (EBRPD) Government Affairs Team. She joined EBRPD in 2014 as a Social Media and Legislative Affairs Intern and is now [...]

Joyce Ganthavorn graduated from U.C. Riverside with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science. She has worked on several environmental projects which includes reducing SFUSD’s water usage [...]

Ruby Tumber spends a lot of time at work, even when she's not in the office. That's because she works for the East Bay Regional Park District, the country's largest regional park system, and [...]

Alison Brown is a Bay Area-born environmentalist. Her identity was shaped in part by the ethos of the sustainability-minded culture that permeates California.

Sandra Acevedo-Hanns is the founder & CEO of iGreen Media Group. Today, Sandra’s commitment is to be known as one making a difference. Her passion to communicate with people has marked her path [...]

Nicole Gaetjens is a transplant from Hawaii working full-time as the Sustainability Coordinator at Mills College in Oakland, California. Her role includes a bit of everything – from supervising [...]

Sandra has two decades of diverse leadership experience in the non-profit and public sectors; she has also worked as a public radio news anchor, and as a theater performer, director, and [...]