About Us
Californians leading the way
Californians share a strong commitment to protecting biodiversity, strengthening climate resilience, expanding nature-based solutions, and enhancing access for all to nature's benefits. California residents understand that our unique natural heritage, from our towering redwood trees to our soaring condors, cannot be replaced once they are gone. These large-scale, linked challenges impact our health, well-being, and economic integrity and require collaboration, capacity building, and knowledge sharing amongst a coalition of partners to address.
Objectives
Increase mainstreaming and integration of biodiversity objectives in policies and planning at all levels of decision making and governance, including through direct awareness-raising with elected officials.
Engage CGBWG members and partners with the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
Build super coalitions composed of state representatives, NGOs, academic institutions, municipalities, tribal governments and community organizations to connect with the KMGBF, thus raising ambition for local, state and federal action.
Generate understanding and acceptance of the linkages between biodiversity loss, climate change and impacts on human health.
Supplement the inconsistency of federal leadership by building power at all levels through organizing, education, and collaboration inclusive of the fight against extractive industries as this pertains to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF).
Steering Committee
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Mike is EnviroVoters' Senior Political and Organizing Director with nearly 20 years of experience in electoral campaigns and grassroots organizing. He builds strategic relationships to identify and support environmental leaders while holding legislators accountable to community concerns.
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Wendy is a long-time California Environmental Voters board member and a land use and environmental policy consultant focusing on natural resource protection, public right of access to recreational trails, the preservation of open space, and fire risk reduction within wildland and wildland urban interface areas.
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Rosalind, based in Los Angeles, is an independent expert on local to global environmental and social policy, strategy, and advocacy, and collaborates with civil society, NGOs, governments and coalitions to create and implement innovative, connected policies and programs.
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Sarojini is a public affairs professional who has worked in nonprofits, state government and on city commissions, with a particular focus on building sustainable, resilient communities. Sarojini has a Master’s Degree in cultural theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and is passionate about wildlife conservation.
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Sam is an Environmental Consultant with 15 years of experience in natural resource management in public, private, and NGO sectors. He is a Certified Consulting Botanist, and has been passionate about putting “think globally, act locally” into action since his time as an Environment, Energy, and Economics Fellow with the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy in Geneva, Switzerland. When he is not working for the environment, he is enjoying it through SCUBA diving, hiking, and camping.
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Liz is the Director of Innovation and co-leader of The Roots Program, a statewide initiative supported by the California Wildlife Conservation Board promoting community-centered wildlife habitat restoration on California’s working landscapes.
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Scott is the Director of Advocacy and Engagement with a diverse background in environmental advocacy. He has led successful campaigns for ocean and watershed protection, organized electoral efforts in Arizona, worked internationally on clean water access, and empowered youth through environmental education.
