Summer Instructors

The Energy and Resources Group summer instructors understand the complex and interdisciplinary nature of sustainability. All have significant experience teaching and/or professional experience in the subject areas of their courses. Click on their bios to learn more!

For course descriptions and schedule, visit our Summer Curriculum and Schedule page.

Duncan Callaway

ERG Chair, Professor
Dr. Callaway’s teaching focuses on power systems and data science. His research can be categorized in three areas: modeling and control of aggregated storage devices; power management; and system analysis of energy technologies and their impact.

Cora Cliburn

MS
Cora is a second-year master’s student focused on climate adaptation and water in the West.

Samuel Evans

Course: ER C176 Climate Change Economics

Sam Evans is a research economist in the Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE). Sam specializes in forest economics and policy, the timber and wood products industries, and the economics of wildfire. Sam holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Colorado State University. Prior to joining CAL FIRE, he spent 10 years in...

Les Guliasi

Course: ER 170 Environmental Classics Les Guliasi is a Research Associate in the Sociology Department at UC Santa Cruz, where he teaches courses on the environment and climate change, in addition to the Energy and Resources Group’s Environmental Classics course.

Amber Kerr

Course: ER 101 Ecology and Society Amber Kerr is an agricultural ecologist focusing on climate change impacts and adaptation.

Dave Rochlin

Course: ER 172 Techno-optimism, Ecomodernism, and Narratives of Growth and Progress Dave is a former technology and NGO executive and is in his 16th year as a continuing professional faculty member at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Innovation, Creativity, and Design Practice.

Sanchita Saxena

Course: ER 192 Business, Sustainability, and Society Dr. Sanchita Banerjee Saxena holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles and has over 20 years of experience working on issues related to labor rights in global supply chains, with a special focus on the garment industry in Asia.