CivicSpark October Alumni Story

Alumni Story by Elena Guevara, 2016-17 CivicSpark Alum, Southern California Region The last two years — the time during my fellowship and after entering the “real world” — have taught me so much about myself (both personally and professionally) and about my career path of choice. My CivicSpark placement was my first “real job” after…

Clarke Stevenson

Clarke works under consulting Air District Attorney, Christiana Darlington, at California Law Empowering Renewable Energy (CLERE Inc). Chrisitana is General Counsel for three air districts (Placer, Mendocino and Northern Sonoma) and represents a variety of clients in forest management and advanced energy technology. Clarke actively participates on the Forest Management Task Force where CLERE Inc…

Julian Ruzzier-Gaul

Julian Ruzzier-Gaul completed his CivicSpark Fellowship with the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority in the Fall of 2018. He has since begun pursuing a Masters in Public Administration in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco. Julian is passionate about regional collaboration, climate change mitigation, backpacking, camping, and trying to understand the…

Colgan Powell

Colgan Powell is Program Assistant for Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk and Sustainability based in San Francisco. Ceres is a non­governmental organization whose mission is to mobilize investor and business leadership to build a thriving, sustainable global economy. Ms. Powell was a 2017­-18 AmeriCorps CivicSpark Fellow with the County of Sonoma Energy and Sustainability…

Molly Marcussen

Molly Marcussen graduated from California State University, Chico with a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with a concentration in Environmental Planning and Environmental Studies. She minored in Geography and earned a certificate in Land Use and Environmental Planning. Molly began her career as a CivicSpark Climate Fellow in Butte County & the City of Chico…

Daniel Maloney

Daniel graduated with a BA in Political Ecology from U.C. Santa Cruz, pertaining to mining companies affecting indigenous cultures in South America. He played on the UCSC Men’s Soccer team for 4 years. In CivicSpark, he worked on environmental collaboration amongst County governments in Los Angeles. He then participated in the California Senate Fellowship working…

Angela Kim

Angela is the SDG Program and Data Manager at the Mayor’s Office of International Affairs in the City of Los Angeles, where she works on localizing the UN Sustainable Development Goals in L.A. Before coming into this role, Angela was a statistics intern at UN Environment in Nairobi and the CivicSpark Climate fellow at the…

Ryan Hirano

Ryan Hirano is a Torrance, California native and a proud Anteater from UC Irvine. Ryan was a CivicSpark Water Fellow in the 2017­-2018 service year, serving with the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority. Ryan participated in the Santa Ana River Watershed’s Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) planning, helping to draft portions of the One Water,…

Drew Harrington

Meet Drew. He is a dreamer and a doer. Drew is currently an Enterprise Account Manager at Remix where he manages key client relationships and positions customers to get the most value out of their investment in the tools we offer. Remix is a platform for designing a city’s transportation future and is trusted by…

Gillian Greenberg

Gillian Greenberg is a Sustainability Specialist for the Town of Truckee where she works on projects within the Recycling and Planning Divisions. Originally from Denver, Gillian graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis in 2017 with a degree in International Development Studies. She served as a CivicSpark Climate Fellow in the 2017­-2018 cohort and is…
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