Leadership
Faculty, staff, and community partners

KATHLEEN
JOHNSON
UCI Professor, Earth System Science, Principal Investigator

JAMES
ADAMS
UCI Postdoctoral Scholar, Anthropology

STEVE
ALLISON
UCI Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Earth System Science, Co-Principal Investigator

Maya
Cheav
Land & Health Director, Orange County Environmental Justice

ELIZABETH
CROOK
UCI Assistant Teaching Professor, Earth System Science, Co-Principal Investigator

BENIS
EGOH
UCI Assistant Professor, Earth System Science, Co-Principal Investigator

Leonel Flores
Programs Manager, GREEN-MPNA

Patricia Flores Yrarrázaval
Executive Director, Orange County Environmental Justice

KIM
FORTUN
UCI Professor, Anthropology, Co-Principal Investigator

ROBERT
GARCIA
UCI Academic Coordinator

Erica Gonzalez
Finances & Logistics Director, Orange County Environmental Justice

Sarahí Gutiérrez
Program Manager & Community Organizer, GREEN-MPNA

Gabriella Lassos
Program Director, Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

Lisa Levenson
Director of Education Programs, Crystal Cove Conservancy

CONNIE
MCGUIRE
Director, UCI Research Justice Shop

Jennifer Mendez
Programs and Conservation Manager, Crystal Cove Conservancy

Angela Mooney-D'Arcy
Executive Director, Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples

José Rea
Executive Director, GREEN-MPNA

THI
TRUONG
UCI Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science

Keila Villegas
Water Justice Director, Orange County Environmental Justice
The UCI Community Geoscience Initiative acknowledges our presence on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Acjachemen and Tongva Peoples, who still hold strong cultural, spiritual, and physical ties to this region.
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