Environmental / Climate Equity

Liyang Wang

MS, PhD
Liyang is a PhD student in the Energy & Resources Group and a Senior Research Associate at Berkeley Lab. Her research interest is at the intersection of decision science, climate science, and infrastructure planning.

Leila Winn

MS
Leila Winn (she/her) is a master’s student pursuing a MS in ERG. Her research interest lie in urban ecology with a focus on urbanization and habitat.

Dawson Verley

MS

Dawson is a Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. His interests lie at the intersection of data science and sustainable development, with a focus on climate adaptation, agriculture, and natural resource economics. He’s currently studying weatherization policies in Europe and the domestic political economy of climate finance in Latin America. Before joining ERG, Dawson worked on natural resources policy in Alaska’s state legislature. He grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, and holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University.

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María Villalpando Páez

PhD
María is interested in exploring rural and peasant women’s role in the advancement of food sovereignty and in understanding the complex negotiation processes between communities, individuals, and the environment in rural and agricultural communities in Mexico.

Simone Speizer

PhD
Simone Speizer is a PhD student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Her research interests center on air pollution and climate impacts, and especially their intersections with health and equity.

Sarah Sarfaty Epstein

MS

Sarah Sarfaty Epstein is a first year M.S. student interested in landscape-scale climate resilience decision making in California’s agriculture sector, particularly at the agriculture-energy-water nexus. Currently, Sarah is part of an equitable agrivoltaics research team, as the Berkeley Food Institute’s Policy Assistant.

Sarah has held a variety of professional roles in the environmental and human services sectors, most recently as an Associate at Ross Strategic where she worked on various food system, rural development and energy resource projects....

Dakota Pekerti

MS
Dakota Pekerti (he/him) is a first-year Master’s student in the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley.

Kingsley Ofori

MS
I have a Bachelors in chemistry and a background in environmental and food quality research.

Clayton Munnings

MS, PhD
Clayton’s research focuses on design evaluations and performance assessments of carbon offsets, carbon prices, and clean electricity standards with a geographic emphasis on the United States and China.

Annika Luo

MS
Annika is a Master’s student specializing in sustainable transitions and industrial and political ecology.