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    Gretchen Andreasen
    Title: Cal Teach Director
    Dept: Cal Teach
    Key Words: Cal Teach, educational equity, science education, math education, secondary math and science teaching, K-12 education
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  • No alternative textHillary Angelo
    Title: Associate Professor
    Dept: Sociology
    Key Words: Urban greening, urban climate/sustainability planning, politics of public lands and renewable energy development, urban and environmental sociology
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    Derede Arthur
    Title: Lecturer
    Dept: Writing
    Key Words: Climate communication, social theory/social movements/politics and climate change, climate change and psychology
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    Linnea Beckett
    Title: Assistant Adjunct Professor and (H)ACER Program Director
    Dept: (H)ACER Program, John R. Lewis College
    Key Words: Community engagement, decolonial feminisms, popular education, informal STEM learning
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  • No alternative textCourtney Bonam
    Title: Assistant Professor 
    Dept:  Psychology/Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
    Key Words: Environmental racism, social psychology, discrimination and inequality, environmental justice, social justice
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  • No alternative textJeffrey Bury
    Title: Professor and Graduate Director
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Environmental justice, political economy of environmental problems
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  • No alternative textYishu Chen
    Title: Professor 
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Economics and policy in energy, water resources and transportation sectors
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  • No alternative textAna Christina Ravelo
    Title: Professor 
    Dept: Ocean Sciences
    Key Words: Stable isotope, geochemistry, paleoceanography, paleoclimatology
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  • No alternative textSteve Coulter
    Title: Continuing Lecturer
    Dept: Writing
    Key Words: Environmental justice, environmental activism, social justice
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  • No alternative textGage Dayton
    Title: Administrative Director
    Dept: Natural Reserve System
    Key Words: Natural Reserves
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  • No alternative textT.J. Demos
    Title: Professor
    Dept: History of Art and Visual Culture
    Key Words:  Art and social movement visual culture, environmental and climate justice, anti-extractivism, abolition ecology, anti-capitalism, ecosocialism
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  • No alternative textJennifer Derr
    Title: Associate Professor and Founding Director of the Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UCSC
    Dept: History
    Key Words:  Disease and immunity, science studies, environmental studies, biomedical sciences, capitalism, colonialism, water
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  • No alternative textLindsey Dillon
    Title: Assistant Professor
    Dept: Sociology
    Key Words: Environmental justice, race/racism
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  • No alternative textRobin Dunkin
    Title: Associate Teaching Professor
    Dept: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
    Key Words: Equity, diversity, marine biology, field studies
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  • No alternative textElida Erickson
    Title: Sustainability Director
    Dept: Sustainability Office
    Key Words: Sustainability Office, equity and inclusion in sustainability
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  • No alternative textAnna Friz
    Title: Associate Professor
    Dept: Film & Digital Media
    Key Words: Media ecologies, land use, infrastructures, time perception, and critical fictions
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  • No alternative textDavid Gordon 
    Title: Associate Professor
    Dept: Politics
    Key Words:  Global urban climate governance, socially and just transformative climate policy, city-networks
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  • No alternative textMiriam Greenberg
    Title: Professor and Chair
    Dept: Sociology
    Key Words:  Affordable housing, inequitable development, critical approaches to the study and implementation of sustainability
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  • No alternative textLes Guliasi
    Title: Researcher
    Dept: Sociology
    Key Words:  Role of legislative and regulatory policy lag in keeping up with market, economic, and technological advancements
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  • No alternative textKathleen Gutierrez
    Title: Assistant Professor
    Dept: History
    Key Words:  Critical plant studies, scientific and agricultural labor, colonial epistemologies, plant sciences, and imperial science
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  • No alternative textMichelle Hernandez
    Title: Community Outreach Coordinator
    Dept: John R. Lewis College
    Key Words:  (H)ACER, community engagement, food justice, sustainability, critical environmental justice
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  • No alternative textRebecca Hernandez
    Title: Community Archivist
    Dept: Library
    Key Words:  Recognizing contributions of people of color to environmental movement, students in particular
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  • No alternative textElizabeth Howard
    Title: Director
    Dept: Younger Lagoon Reserve
    Key Words:  Younger Lagoon, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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  • No alternative textZia Isola
    Title: Director
    Dept: Genomics Institute
    Key Words:  Genomics Institute Office of Diversity, STEM, diversity, scholarships, genomics, equity, inclusion, science studies
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  • No alternative textSikina Jinnah
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Global environmental governance, climate change politics, geoengineering governance, climate justice
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  • No alternative textKristy Kroeker
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
    Key Words:  Sustainability, climate change, coastal science, ecology, marine biology, marine sciences, environmental policy, ocean sciences, science communication, geochemistry
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  • No alternative textFlora Lu
    Title: Provost/Professor
    Dept:  College 9 & John R. Lewis College and Environmental Studies
    Key Words:  Environmental justice, PoCSC, critical campus sustainability
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  • No alternative textRobert Majzler
    Title: Lecturer
    Dept:  Psychology, John R. Lewis College, Critical Race & Ethnic Studies
    Key Words:  Liberation psychology, critical psychology, feminist psychology, social movements, decolonizing the university, critical whiteness studies
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  • No alternative textAndrew Mathews
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Anthropology
    Key Words:  Global environmental change, landscape history, environmental politics
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  • No alternative textKatie Monsen
    Title: Continuing Lecturer
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Agroecology and agriculture, sustainability
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  • No alternative textMaywa Montenegro
    Title: Assistant Professor
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Knowledge politics and onto-epistemologies that underpin a spectrum of (scientific, movement, institutional) approaches to agri-food systems change
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  • No alternative textEmily Murai
    Title: Lecturer
    Dept: Environmental Studies & College 9
    Key Words:  Environmental justice, critical human geography, writing across the curriculum/in the disciplines (WAC/WID)
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  • No alternative textLaurie Palmer
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Digital Arts and New Media
    Key Words: Environmental justice & social practice
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  • No alternative textKyle Parry
    Title: Associate Professor
    Dept: History of Art and Visual Culture
    Key Words:  Digital culture/media in relation to environmental problems
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  • No alternative textAdina Paytan
    Title: Lecturer
    Dept: Earth & Planetary Sciences
    Key Words:  Biogeochemistry, paleoceanography, environmental and aquatic chemistry
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  • No alternative textStacy Philpott
    Title:  Professor/Faculty Director of Center for Agroecology
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Agroecology, biodiversity, community ecology, climate change, conservation biology, ecosystem services, food sovereignty, landscape ecology, urban ecology
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  • No alternative textRavi Rajan
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words:  Environmental justice, Global Environmental Justice Observatory
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  • No alternative textEnrico Ramirez-Ruiz
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Astronomy & Astrophysics
    Key Words: Lamat Program, diversity, inclusion
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  • No alternative textJason Samaha
    Title: Assistant Professor
    Dept: Psychology
    Key Words: UC Green New Deal, UCSC Climate Coalition
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  • No alternative textNeil Schaefer
    Title: Continuing Lecturer
    Dept: Rachel Carson College
    Key Words:  Rachel Carson College, social justice, environmental ethics
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  • No alternative textKatherine Seto
    Title: Assistant Professor
    Dept: Environmental Studies
    Key Words: Marine resource access, equity
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  • No alternative textAmanda Smith
    Title: Associate Professor
    Dept: Literature
    Key Words: Environmental humanities, Latin America
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  • No alternative textBruce Thompson
    Title: Continuing Lecturer
    Dept: History and Literature
    Key Words: Environmental History
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  • No alternative textEllen Vaughan
    Title: Water & Climate Action Manager
    Dept: Sustainability Office
    Key Words:  Sustainability Office, energy and water conservation and efficiency, electrification and renewable energy, green labs, carbon fund, climate resilience on campus and in the community
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  • No alternative textPeter Weiss
    Title:  Faculty Researcher and Continuing Lecturer
    Dept:  Chemistry & Biochemistry/Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology/Earth & Planetary Sciences
    Key Words:  Bioaccumulation of toxins into the foods that are consumed by wildlife and humans.
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  • No alternative textClara Weygandt
    Title: Lecturer
    Dept: Rachel Carson College
    Key Words:  Rachel Carson, Nature & Environmental Writing
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  • No alternative textJennifer Wood
    Title:  MEP Academic Counselor
    Dept:  Baskin School of Engineering
    Key Words:  Student services, psychology, counseling, disabilities, social justice, student development, student employment, career counseling
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  • No alternative textErika Zavaleta
    Title: Professor
    Dept: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
    Key Words:  CAMINO, Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program, ecology, conservation science, global change biology, plant biodiversity, plant-animal interactions, meta-analysis, community and ecosystem dynamics, nitrogen biogeochemistry, ecological anthropology, climate change adaptation
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