Dr. Marie Grimm is an Environmental Policy Research Fellow with the Wheeler Water Institute at UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE). Her work explores how institutions can implement environmental policy objectives, and how different policy instruments are implemented in practice. Her projects include research on funding and permitting for multibenefit projects, planning processes for water reuse in small communities, and regulation of data center water use. Prior to CLEE, Marie worked at the Environmental Assessment and Planning Research Group at TU Berlin, Germany. Her work focused on the conservation banking program in California, impact mitigation tools in the U.S. and the E.U., and energy transitions. Marie holds a Ph.D. and Master’s degree in environmental policy and planning from TU and FU Berlin.

Gabriel Penteado is Program Associate of the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force, at the UCLA Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Kasia Kosmala-Dahlbeck is a Climate Change Policy Research Fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment. Her research focuses on frameworks for equity-oriented climate infrastructure development and community resilience to climate risks. Kasia received her M.Sc. from UCL's Institute for Sustainable Resources and her B.A. from UCLA.

Malcolm is a Climate Change Policy Research Fellow in the Climate Program at CLEE. His research focuses on the equitable deployment of electric vehicles and offshore wind energy.

Sabrina Ashjian is a clinical supervising attorney and project director for the Emmett Institute on Climate Change & the Environment and the California Environmental Legislation & Policy Clinic at UCLA School of Law. She was previously at the UC Berkeley School of Law Environmental Law Clinic and taught environmental justice courses. She advanced animal welfare and environmental legislation as the California State Director for the Humane Society of the United States. Prior to that she served as a consumer fraud & environmental protection prosecutor and she began her career as a public defender. Sabrina has been appointed by two governors to serve the state. First by Governor Brown to the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel, and most recently, by Governor Newsom to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.