Jenn Perron is a Senior Climate Policy Fellow with the California-China Climate Institute (CCCI). She has worked on global climate change for over a decade, in academia, think tanks, and non-profits, often focused on broadening stakeholder engagement and awareness on the issue.

Prior to joining CCCI, Jenn worked as a Project Manager at The Brookings Institution, facilitating inter-disciplinary collaboration and research scholarship on climate and energy issues. Before that, she served as a Community & Partnerships Manager at MIT’s Center for Collective Intelligence, and an International Climate Policy Coordinator for an international advocacy network.

Jenn has a strong background in both the science and politics of global climate change, with areas of interest in international climate policy and diplomacy and its nexus with U.S. domestic climate policies, in adaptation and building community resilience, and in the role of the networks in broadening civil society engagement and advancing multilateral environmental governance processes. She has conducted social science research on urban climate adaptation and adaptive capacity, explored the uptake of scientific information on climate impacts by agricultural decision-makers, researched sectoral decarbonization strategies, examined the effects of Latin American climate mitigation strategies on livelihoods, and tracked the UN climate negotiations, and written on the nexus of climate policy, finance, food security and sustainable land use.

She holds a Master’s in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources and Environment, and a Bachelor’s in environmental science.

Duncan is currently an Emmett Institute Climate Intervention Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy. His interests focus on whether and how geoengineering can contribute to climate justice; and more broadly on the relationships between technology, politics and ethics.

Evan George is the Communications Director for the UCLA Emmett Institute. He was previously the News Director at KCRW, where he led the newsroom’s broadcast and digital operations.

Leana Weissberg is a Research Fellow at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) working on issues related to forests and wildfire in California. Before joining CLEE, she worked as a forester with the Bureau of Land Management and the Sierra Institute for Community & Environment. Her previous work involved planning and implementing forest management projects, including post-fire recovery; facilitation of a regional forest collaborative; and research and use of collaborative tools to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration.

Sharon Jacobs teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, and administrative law. Her work has been published in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and the Ecology Law Quarterly.

Before joining Berkeley Law, Professor Jacobs was an Associate Professor of Law and the John H. Schultz Energy and Natural Resources Law Fellow at the University of Colorado. She was also a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Professor Jacobs began her legal career with the law firm of Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, D.C. where she practiced as a member of the energy and environmental regulatory groups. Prior to attending law school, Professor Jacobs was a professional cellist. She holds a master’s degree from the Juilliard School and a bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. At Berkeley, Professor Jacobs teaches Energy Law and Policy, Administrative Law, and related courses.

When not at the office, Professor Jacobs can be found on the trails in Tilden Park or in the kitchen trying to bake the perfect French macaron.