Meet our team
Faculty Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Assistant Director, Research Development
Communications and PR Manager
Program Administrator
Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
Assistant Director, Government Liaison for Environment and Sustainability
Research and Policy Analyst
Steering Committee
J.R. DeShazo
Public Policy; Luskin School of Public Affairs; Luskin Center for Innovation
Bruce Dunn
Materials Science and Engineering; Samueli School of Engineering
Kian Goh
Urban Planning; Luskin School of Public Affairs
Alex Hall
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Physical Sciences and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; Center for Climate Science
Eric Hoek
Civil and Environmental Engineering; Samueli School of Engineering
Cara Horowitz
Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment; School of Law
Brad Shaffer
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Life Sciences and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science
V. Kelly Turner
Urban Planning; Luskin School of Public Affairs
Yifang Zhu
Environmental Health Sciences; Fielding School of Public Health
Ex-officio Members
Michelle Popowitz
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research and Executive Director of UCLA Grand Challenges; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research
Casandra Rauser
Director, Sustainable LA Grand Challenge
L.A. Sustainability Leadership Council
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block co-chairs the council with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to drive forward the goals of the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge, the Sustainable City pLAn, and other regional efforts.
Co-chairs
Gene Block
Chancellor, UCLA
Eric Garcetti
Mayor, City of Los Angeles
Members
Yael Aflalo
CEO and Founder, Reformation
Lori Bettison-Varga
Executive Director, L.A. County Museum of Natural History
Michael Burke
Chairman and CEO, AECOM
Kevin de León
Former President pro Tempore, California State Senate
Michael Dubin
CEO, Dollar Shave Club
Lauren Faber O’Connor
Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Los Angeles
Mark Gold
Deputy Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Policy and Director of the
Ocean Protection Council, California Natural Resources Agency
Dianne Harrison
President, California State University, Northridge
Antonia Hernandez
President and CEO, California Community Foundation
Richard Katz
Former California State Assemblymember
John Kilroy
CEO, Kilroy Realty
Jena King
Co-founder, Jena & Michael King Foundation
Sheila Kuehl
Supervisor for the Third District of Los Angeles County
Lyn Lear
Co-founder, Environmental Media Association
Mary Leslie
President, Los Angeles Business Council
Debra Man
Former COO, Metropolitan Water District
Felicia Marcus
Former Chair, State Water Resources Control Board
Kelly Meyer
Board member, NRDC
Amber Miller
Dean, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Jennifer Mnookin
Dean, School of Law, UCLA
Jayathi Murthy
Dean, Samueli School of Engineering, UCLA
Marc Nathanson
Chairman, Falcon Waterfree Technologies
Mary Nichols
Chair, California Air Resources Board
Manuel Pastor
Professor and Director, Program for Environmental and Regional Equity – USC
Tom Penn
President and Co-owner, Los Angeles Football Club
Jonas Peters
Bren Professor of Chemistry and Director, Resnick Sustainability Institute – Caltech
Matt Petersen
CEO and President, Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Tony Pritzker
Managing Partner and Co-founder,
The Pritzker Group
Anthony Rendon
Speaker of the California State Assembly
Tara Roth
President, Goldhirsh Foundation
Laura Shell
Chair, California Advisory Board, Trust for Public Land
Hilda Solis
Supervisor for the First District of Los Angeles County
Victoria Sork
Dean, Division of Life Sciences, UCLA
Terry Tamminen
President, 7th Generation Advisors
Patricia Turner
Senior Dean, College of Letters and Sciences, UCLA
Roger Wakimoto
Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA
Phillip Washington
CEO, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Steve Westly
Managing Partner, The Westly Group
TBD
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power