Steering Committee:

	Aaron Lehmer, Campaigns Director | E-mail Aaron co-founded Bay Localize and manages our Green Your City program, publishes Bay Localize News, and helps coordinate our outreach, communications, and fundraising efforts. He also serves on the Oakland Climate Action Coalition Steering Committee, the Oakland Food Policy Council, and Earth Island Institute's Program Committee. Aaron holds an M.A. in Globalization and the Environment from Humboldt State University and a triple B.A. in Anthropology, Philosophy, and Environmental Studies from Iowa State University. He also worked for the Ella Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, Circle of Life, Earth Island Institute, Grassroots Globalization Network, ReThink Paper, and with the Student Environmental Action Coalition. His commentaries have been featured on AlterNet, KPFA, and NPR, in the Earth Island Journal, Sacramento News & Review, Permaculture Activist, Energy Bulletin, Oakland Tribune, and the S.F. Bay Guardian. Aaron lives in Oakland and is an avid gardener, hiker, singer, and amateur astronomer.
	Carla Mays, Social Innovations Strategist Carla is a social innovations strategist; a catalyst and connector for sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing; and a passionate policy advocate for 21st century solutions that make our world more sustainable for everyone. She specializes in social networking, coalition building, program strategy, sustainable resource development, legislation and constituency building, and equity in the "social change" movement. Carla is presently an Innovations Strategist at Bates and Mays Solutions, and has worked as a social media and networking facilitator at ProMatch, a discussion leader and equity builder in social enterprise at the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) Conference, a Silicon Valley Ambassador at West Coast Green, and a community organizer at Obama for America. She holds an MPA in Nonprofit & Urban Administration and a BA in Advocacy, Counseling and Career/Life Skills Development from San Francisco State University, as well as a Certificate in Journalism from Palomar College. Carla prides herself on "being a part of the magic of social change, and working with Bay Localize's awesome team of social innovators."
	Kirsten Schwind, Program Director | E-mail Kirsten holds a B.A. in Economics and Public Policy from Swarthmore College and an M.S. in Natural Resources Management from the University of Michigan. She authored Bay Localize's Community Resilience Toolkit and co-authored Tapping the Potential of Urban Rooftops, which won an award from the American Planning Association's California Chapter. Kirsten is deeply involved in local energy policy and formerly served as the Chair of the City of Berkeley's Energy Commission. At Bay Localize Kirsten takes the lead on community resilience workshops and updating the Toolkit, consulting on local energy policy, and managing organizational operations and development. She also has worked extensively in food systems and international trade policy at other nonprofit groups, including as Program Director at Food First, and once served as shop steward for her union. Kirsten worked for several years in Latin America in human rights and the environment, and is fluent in Spanish.
	Nile Malloy, Community Organizer | E-mail Nile is a movement builder and organizer committed to social, economic, and ecological justice. He is currently Program Director for Communities for a Better Environment. He recently served as the Freedom from Oil campaigner at Rainforest Action Network. Outside of campaigning against big corporations on environmental standards, criteria and policy, he is deeply invested in local solution-based projects in the Midwest and in the Bay Area to revitalize urban centers. He also has wide-ranging background as a teacher and has taught at the New College of California in the Activism and Social Change Program. He holds a B.A. in Urban Anthropology and African American Studies from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Social Transformation with a focus on local and global environmental justice projects. An aspiring writer and poet, Nile resides in Oakland.
	Rosa Esperanza González, Popular Theater Artist | E-mail Rosa is a popular educator, writer, and visual and performing artist. She serves as the Green Academy Program Manager at Green for All, and recently served as coordinator of popular education for the Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA). She designs curricula and facilitates theater-based workshops and townhall meetings for critical community dialog. Rosa is also a member of headRush, a psycho-political performance and popular education crew dedicated to inspiring working class communities through a blend of spoken word and teatro-style political satire. In 2002, she wrote and directed her first play, "My Camino Real," produced by Los Del Pueblos Actors' Lab. She writes to evoke spirit, inspire young people, and honor her ancestors. Rosa has a Masters in Latin American Studies from Stanford University and a Masters in Teaching from the Arts in Education program at the University of San Francisco.
	Tressa Berman, Strategic Partnerships Director | E-mail Tressa manages Bay Localize's overall fundraising and strategic partnership development. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from UCLA. She has consulted to various nonprofits and cultural institutions in program development and fundraising. In addition to founding her own non-profit, she has held positions at the California Academy of Sciences and the Smithsonian Institution. Her international work includes as consultant to UNESCO, member of the Human Rights Commission of the American Anthropological Association. In addition to journal and magazine publications on culture and community, her second book, No Deal! Indigenous Arts and the Politics of Possession, is forthcoming in 2012. She is a recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship and a NEA project grant. She grew her creative writing at the Vermont Studio Center, and continues through her poetry and non-fiction memoir.
	Victor Douglas, Air Quality Specialist Victor has recently joined the Bay Localize Steering Committee, and brings 20 years of experience in the field of air quality regulation and policy. He has worked at the State Air Resources Board and most recently at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Victor holds a BS in Chemical Engineering and attended UC Davis and Cal Poly Pomona. A California and Bay Area Native, he has been engaged in various grassroots environmental and social organizations in the Bay Area for many years. He lives in Oakland.

Program Partners:

Al Weinrub, Local Clean Energy Alliance Coordinator | E-mail Al Weinrub has served as volunteer coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance since 2010, organizing regular Alliance meetings, planning our annual Clean Power, Healthy Communities conference, recruiting new members, and assisting with policy campaign efforts. He authored Community Power: Decentralized Renewable Energy in California, has conducted energy policy briefings for a number of organizations, and serves on the Sierra Club California Energy-Climate Committee. He lives in Oakland.

Interns, Project Volunteers, and Research Associates:

	Cuc Vo, Scraps to Soil Project Volunteer | E-mail Cuc volunteers for Bay Localize's Scraps to Soil project, working to increase composting and raising student consciousness at Laney College. He is an eco-entrepreneur and owner of Green Curbs, an ecological landscaping company based in Oakland. He is a specialist in natural fertilizer, a compost-lover, and an outdoor enthusiast. Cuc studied Agroecology at the campus farm at UC Santa Cruz, where he also acquired background in Environmental Studies and Economics. He is a Bay Area-native with a passion for sustainable landscape design, youth advocacy, and social justice. In recent years, Cuc served various Oakland-based organizations, including City Slicker Farms, Bay Area Wilderness Training and the East Bay Asian Youth Center (EBAYC). He loves talking about worms and composting.
	David Kant Odysseus Wofford, Communities for Resilience Intern | E-mail Born and raised in Oakland, David is a community development and environmental activist. He helps organize community resilience events and assists with research and development for Bay Localize's next edition of the Community Resilience Toolkit. David comes from a family of educators, healthcare workers, and community activists and got his start in community development at an early age working in the offices of John George, Wilson Riles, Jr. and Chappell Hayes. While being mentored and working under these pioneering leaders, David became deeply involved in regional planning and policy development. His professional goal is to promote sustainability throughout the Bay Area, and the world. Combining his real world experience with his Masters in Community Development and background in city and regional planning, David seeks to use his skills to build community and bring people together across ethnic, economic, social and other cultural lines. He enjoys camping, being outdoors, and connecting youth to nature. He is passionate about urban gardening and wanting people to know that they can grow their own organic food. David's vision is one of greater citizen participation in the design of more resilient communities. David is currently completing his PhD in mythology.
	Eva Farah, Office Management Intern | E-mail Eva works as an Office Management intern for Bay Localize. Coming from a diverse background of studies and experiences, she strives to work in the fields of conservation, environmental and social justice. She has worked as a scientific diver and technician for The Nature Conservancy in the US Virgin Islands. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marine Science from the University of Hawai`i at Hilo. Throughout her education she participated in a community-based marine resource management project in Kīholo, Hawai`i; she has been internationally published as a co-author for her collaborative undergraduate research on a coral health project in Wai`Ōpae, Hawai`i; she participated as a coral reef research diver in the Seychelles for Global Vision International, setting the foundation to her career as a scientific diver. Eva enjoys dancing, traveling, reading, cooking, free-diving, and camping.
	Katie Behrendt, Strategic Partnerships Research Associate | E-mail Katie helps Bay Localize research opportunities to expand its strategic partnerships and fundraising capacity. She is committed to reshaping our local economy to prepare for the challenges ahead. She spent 3 years as Fleet Manager at City CarShare where she developed systems for managing their rapidly growing fleet of vehicles and learned a lot about sharing models. She holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Northwestern University with a focus in business management. Katie is also interested in steady-state economics, cooperative management models, and consensus. She enjoys reading, listening to music, and walking everywhere.
	Kay Cuajunco, Multimedia and Communications Intern | E-mail Kay is an ecofeminist, scholar, and activist committed to creating environmental and social equity systems that are inclusive of underserved communities. She believes their participation helps sustain a vibrant and collaborative learning community. She works with Bay Localize in fostering community resilience through the use of multimedia and transformative narratives, forging solidarity around our connections to the Earth and our rights and responsibilities that flow from them. Kay is currently pursuing her Masters in Political Theory at San Francisco State University where her research focuses on the intersections of race, class, and gender, and the negative impacts of neo-colonialism on the environment. She is passionate about our ability to create change globally by building movements locally. Kay enjoys yoga, capoeira, riding her bike, and creative vegan dishes.
	Mayoor Steinberg, Development Intern | E-mail Mayoor assists Bay Localize in assessing and securing financial support for our ongoing campaigns and programs, and helps with day-to-day office management. Mayoor brings five years of experience as office manager for a landscaping restoration company and is now pursuing a Certificate in Non-profit Management at Cal State East Bay. She has participated in the Bay Interpretive Program at the Berkeley Marina, and often visits the beautiful school garden at King Middle School, where the ingenuity of the students never ceases to amaze! She sees helping to inspire kids with a love of the wild as a valuable way to contribute to our world. With a degree in Occupational Therapy, she is very interested in inter-generational programs that can include all age groups in our vision to create a sustainable future for everyone.
	Melody Mo, Green Your City Program Intern | E-mail Melody serves as the Green Your City intern, helping to further Bay Localize's "Grow Local" campaign to promote urban agriculture. She recently finished her studies in Political Economy at the University of California, Berkeley. She has an immense interest in food -- from how it nourishes us, to how political sociology works to shape our food system. As a life-long advocate for social justice, she has worked for WAGES, a nonprofit that supports low-income women in their worker-owned green businesses, as well as with the University of Ghana, where she conducted research on the politics and economics of potable water in the capital of Ghana. She is still riding on a wave of intense curiosity and energy from spending a year in Ghana, and is still trying to figure out the most appropriate and sustainable ways to empower communities both domestically and abroad in a time when (most of) humanity has claimed the Earth's resources as distinctly theirs. In her spare time, Melody enjoys gardening, practicing yoga and massages, and pouring (and drinking) tea.
	Mike Accomazzo, Local Clean Energy WebComms Intern | E-mail Mike assists with organizing, outreach, and online communications for the Local Clean Energy Alliance. Hailing from Colorado originally, he has been passionately involved with green causes, mostly energy-related, since graduating from high school. He attended the University of Colorado and holds a degree in Environmental Studies. A techie by nature, Mike has used his valuable expertise to help Bay Area organizations, including the Green City Gallery, the Sierra Club, and SF Community Power. He currently does freelance web design and development and takes pride in learning something new every day

Board of Advisors:

	Allyse Heartwell, Local Food Systems Advisor Allyse holds a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University, where her studies focused on international environmental issues. She currently works as Coordinator of the Buy Fresh, Buy Local program at the Community Alliance with Family Farmers. She worked on media and community outreach for Bay Localize and served on the Steering Committee for over two years. A relatively recent Bay Area transplant, she now focuses her interest in sustainability on the local level and is involved in many activities relating to peak oil, urban agriculture, and localization. She lives in San Francisco, where she gardens, volunteers for Alemany Farm, and walks a lot.
	Dave Room, Community-Centered Media Advisor Dave Room co-founded Bay Localize, a public benefit organization that inspires and supports Bay Area residents in building resilient communities, and coordinated the Local Clean Energy Alliance. He was instrumental in the start up phase of Post Carbon Institute, playing a key role in donor cultivation, the End of Suburbia screening campaign, and engagement with local groups. He was also a frequent interviewer on Global Public Media. Dave's most important identifier is Melia's Papa. On stage, Melia's Papa uses storytelling and solo performance theater (The Monkey Trap) to awaken and activate mainstream audiences, people of color, and youth. Dave is leading efforts to use new media and social media for social change and political advocacy through his new social enterprise BALANCE Edutainment. Dave coined the term "Energy Preparedness" and was on the Oil Independent Oakland by 2020 task force. He has B.S in Electrical Engineering with a Power Systems focus and a M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University. Follow Dave on Twitter.
	Ingrid Severson, Rooftop Resource Systems Advisor Ingrid is the former organizer and project leader of Bay Localize's Rooftop Resources Project and served on the Steering Committee for three years. She gained experience in the environmental field through undergraduate studies at San Francisco State and New College of California. She pursued a hands-on approach to Deep Ecology with extensive travels and environmental programs in Latin America. Ingrid is a certified Permaculture Designer and is competent in Spanish. She has worked with Sonoma County Conservation Action, the Sierra Club Bay Chapter, and independently in various video productions promoting environmental awareness. She has also held a professional therapeutic massage practice for eight years. Ingrid lives in Oakland and enjoys exploring the natural treasures within the Bay Area.
	Katherine "Kat" Steele Kat is a permaculture activist, designer, educator, and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland. She facilitates workshops on natural building and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair, and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International, and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of another Bay Area nonprofit organization devoted to peace, justice, and sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) in Berkeley. She recently became one of a 1,000 Climate Project trainees, empowered to present a version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth slide presentation. Kat lives in Oakland and is devoted to localization, believing it to be a key strategy towards sustainability and thriveability.
	Kevin Bayuk Kevin started as an artist and filmmaker, explored an eight year meander as a technology entrepreneur (in an attempt to fund films) and has now graduated into a life as an activated advocate for ecotopian living. Currently he leverages his skills and relationships to develop organizations and projects that regenerate healthy ecosystems and socially just environments. In addition to advising Bay Localize, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Urban Alliance for Sustainability and Daily Acts. Kevin also facilitates permaculture trainings and shares his skills in organic gardening and composting in playshops and community workshops.
	Leah Fessenden, Urban Ag and Green Infrastructure Advisor Leah served as a Green Your City intern and fellow for nearly two years, coordinating volunteer work days with Bay Localize's affiliated garden and community projects, assisting with green roof policy development, and equipping local enthusiasts with tools and resources to get started on their own projects. She also played an instrumental role in launching our Grow Local urban agriculture campaign. As a student in Environmental Management at Merritt College, she is well-versed in green building, and has gained a great deal of hands on experience with living roof systems, particularly through a greenhouse project at the department's headquarters, the Self-Reliant House. Leah lives in Oakland and is an avid fan of quality afternoon coffee.
	Linda Currie, Climate Action Advisor Linda led Bay Localize's Green Faith in Action project, outreaching to faith-based communities to help congregants make their homes more energy efficient. She has been coaching groups of people around the East Bay to lower their carbon footprints through a program called "The Low Carbon Diet." She has worked with the Berkeley Public Schools, City of Berkeley, the YMCA, Berkeley's Energy Commission, First Presbyterian Church, the Ecology Center and the City of Albany. She also serves as a board member for Green Sangha, a chapter-based nonprofit dedicated to inspiring awakened action on various environmental fronts. Linda lives in Berkeley with her family and can be found biking around town, hanging clothes on the line, muttering to squirrels and occasionally painting.
	Dan Antonioli Dan is a green construction specialist with over twenty years of experience in general construction and ten years in ecological design, alternative construction, and green building. He has a background in green building, natural building, permaculture, and ecovillage design and development. He's a licensed general contractor, a registered green builder with Build It Green, and has memberships with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), the American Solar Energy Association, the Northern California Solar Energy Association, and the Eastern Oregon Renewable Energy Association. He's currently creating an inner city ecovillage in Oakland and a five parcel intentional community in Laytonville, California.
Consultative Advisors: Kevin Danaher, Co-founder, Global Exchange Kirstin Miller, Program Director, Ecocity Builders Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes, Director, SFSU Urban Studies Dept. John Talberth, Senior Economist, World Resources Institute