Environmental / Climate Equity

Jasmine Hiroko McAdams

MS, PhD
Jasmine is a MS/PhD student at UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group, with a passion for supporting robust and equitable decision-making in climate and energy.

Aneesha Manocha

MS, PhD
Aneesha Manocha (she/her) is a PhD student and NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley in the Energy Resources Group.

Javiera Canales Valenzuela

MS
My principal interests are the development of sustainable urban systems that improve quality of life for people and work in harmony with the natural environment through the utilization of clean and renewable energy, the application of technology, and the design of circular economic systems.

Kristin Brainerd

MS

Understanding California Water Markets: A Look at Transfers from 2000 to 2009 (’11 MS)

Sam Borgeson

MA, PhD
Sam’s works focuses on tools to scale up and improve the performance of energy efficiency programs in support of renewable energy integration and climate mitigation goals.

Elena Bell

MS
Elena is a 2024 MS graduate interested in equitable natural resource management relating to agriculture and forestry.

Carolina Balazs

MS, PhD

The Role of Small Reservoirs in Rural Livelihoods: A Study in Brazil’s Preto River Basin (MS ’06) Just Water? Social Disparities and Drinking Water Quality in California’s San Joaquin Valley (PhD ’11)

Paul Baer

PhD

Justifying Climate Policy Choices: New Approaches to Uncertainty, Risk & Equity (’05 PhD)

Ry Andresen

MS
Ry is interested in measuring the impacts of wildfire mitigation policies in vulnerable communities across California.

Joshua Apte

MS, PhD

Population Exposure to Vehicular Emission in Megacities (MS, ’08) Human Exposure to Urban Vehicle Emissions (PhD, ’13)