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| Name | City | Role | Organization |
| Tracy Segura | San Anselmo | Other | |
| Tom Jensen | San Anselmo | Entrepreneur | EFN |
| Paul Hernandez | Culver City; El Cerrito | Private Company Employee | Envoy Technologies |
| Cody Finke | Oakland | Entrepreneur | Brimstone Energy |
| Sarina Soor | Los Angeles | Other | Local Government Commission |
| Karen Morgan | Other | TESIAC | |
| Danilo Toskovic | Project Developer | PCS Energy | |
| Tanya Barham | Portland | Entrepreneur | Community Energy Labs |
| Zachary Phillips | Entrepreneur | Humankind Homes | |
| Michael Adams | Los Angeles | Consultant | Glumac |
| John Peairs | San Rafael | Entrepreneur | XiO |
| Regina Marston | Murrieta | Consultant | Engage |
| Musole BM | Ottawa | Researcher | BMCE Systems |
| Johnny Huang | Scarsdale | Entrepreneur | Teratonix |
| Benjamin Peters | Petaluma | Entrepreneur | Solar Action Network |
| Rita Clement | Chula Vista | Community Advocate | SanDiego350 |
| James Dodenhoff | Culver City | Consultant | Silent Running |
| Christian Stayner | Los Angeles | Project Developer | Stayner Architects |
| Marty Turock | San Diego | Accelerator Staff | Southern California Energy Innovation Network |
| James Cliame | San Diego | Consultant | Net Result |
| Garth Newberry | Riverside | Entrepreneur | EVCharging Services LLC |
| Ahmed Hashem | Perrysburg | Entrepreneur | CHANGE Energy Technologies Inc |
| Dr. Olu Olatidoye | Atlanta | Project Developer | Clark Atlanta University |
| Darrell J Leamon | Project Developer | Terra Pacific Development | |
| Isabelle Sato | Researcher | ||
| Jonathan Manzo | San Francisco | Private Company Employee | Urbin Incorporated |
| Sara Pomare | Fresno | Consultant | Sara Pomare MBA |
| Basima Abdulrahman | Erbil, Iraq | Entrepreneur | KESK |
| Daniel Schwab | Tel Aviv | Entrepreneur | Brightmerge |
| Tara Lamont | Consultant | ||
| Felipe Herradpr | Project Developer | ||
| Luis Amar | Oakland | Project Developer | GRID Alternatives |
| Katherine Austin | Sebastopol | Other | Katherine Austin, AIA, Architect |
| Andrew Wolfram | San Francisco | Consultant | TEF Design |
| Brett Gentry | Belmont | Entrepreneur | |
| Emily Higbee | Arcata | Consultant | Redwood Energy |
| Kate Norum | Fresno | University Staff | Center for Irrigation Technology |
| Josef Mueller | Entrepreneur | ||
| Bob Havlicek | Lompoc | Project Developer | Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara |
| Leslie Wielenga | Project Developer | Charge Bliss Inc | |
| Conrad Chase | El Segundo | Project Developer | Morpho Energy |
| Taj Eldridge | Eastvale | Accelerator Staff | |
| Ammi Amarnath | Palo Alto | Researcher | EPRI |
| Gregory Rosen | Berkeley | Consultant | High Noon Advisors |
| David Myers | Oakland | Consultant | Franklin Energy Services |
| Lawana Richmond | University Staff | ||
| Peter Tomai | Coronado | Entrepreneur | Specific Performance, inc |
| Sheryl Adams | San Diego | Consultant | GLG Gerson Lehman Group |
| Shane Wright | San Diego | Private Company Employee | Extensible Energy |
| Sidney Wildesmith | Consultant | ||
| Khalid Askar | San Diego | Project Developer | Enersion Inc. |
| Mike Vargas | Murrieta | Consultant | Atlas Project Support |
| Rex Wilson | Carlsbad | Consultant | Rex Wilson LLC |
| Jagmeet Khangura | Walnut Creek | Entrepreneur | Black & Veatch |
| Stuart Smits | Sacramento | Project Developer | 7 Generations LLC |
| Reza Sabzehgar | San Diego | Entrepreneur | Topolonet Corporation |
| Lucas LeardMann | San Diego | Other | |
| Saeed Manshadi | San Diego | Researcher | SDSU |
| Andrew Poat | San Diego | Consultant | Self Employed |
| Jeff Bush | Consultant | ||
| Oliver Curley | San Diego | Other | |
| Matthew D. Batista | San Diego | Other | |
| Roger Snow | Hanford | Community Advocate | |
| Jim Waring | La Jolla | Other | |
| Graham Richard | San Francisco | Entrepreneur | Graham Richard Associates LLC |
| Lane Sharman | Solana Beach | Community Advocate | San Diego Energy District Foundation |
| Juan Ospina | San Diego | Other | Sherwin Williams |
| Shahriar Afshar | San Diego | Private Company Employee | Verizon |
| Joe Carangelo | San Diego | Consultant | MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego |
| Jose Torre-Bueno | San Diego | Community Advocate | Center for Community Energy |
| Larry White | San Diego | Community Advocate | Winsome Ventures |
| Mannix Vera Cruz | Chula Vista | Entrepreneur | |
| Chuck Samuelson | Cardiff by the Sea | Entrepreneur | Community Kitchens Collaborative |
| Kelley Gale | San Diego | Other | Latham & Watkins |
| Tara Hammond | Entrepreneur | Hammond Climate Solutions | |
| Art Pathe | Entrepreneur | ||
| Jackie Maclean | Government Employee | County of San Diego | |
| Beth Brummitt | Del Mar | Other | BRUMMITT CONSULTING |
| Zac Dobbin | San Diego | Accelerator Staff | Cleantech San Diego |
| Kim Kyeounghwan | Seoul | Entrepreneur | SELNIX |
| Cyn French | Timnath | Consultant | Sustainable Energy And Ag Technology |
| Ken Lowney | Oakland | Other | Lowney Architecture |
| Doug Kollmyer | Riverside | Accelerator Staff | UCR OTP/Cleantech |
| Vicky Razo | Palmdale | Government Employee | City of Palmdale |
| Darbi Berry | University Staff | San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative | |
| Stephanie Kristiansen | Palo Alto | Other | Innovation Centre Denmark Silicon Valley |
| Lauren Harper | Other | LACI | |
| Jeffrey Horn | Private Company Employee | ||
| Kristine Adamich | Consultant | Ecotope | |
| Debra Gore-Mann | Oakland | Other | Greenlining Institute |
| Emma French | Los Angeles | Researcher | UCLA |
| Michele Shoemaker | San Diego | Other | Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| Jeff Macon | Fresno | Accelerator Staff | Fresno State's WET (Water, Energy, and Technology) Center |
| Garrett Wong | Goleta | Government Employee | |
| Laura Vogel | San Francisco | Consultant | Guidehouse |
| Linda Mandolini | Hayward | Project Developer | Eden Housing |
| Colleen FitzSimons | Other | San Diego Green Building Council | |
| Lee Bruno | San Francisco | Accelerator Staff | |
| Aaron Baskerville-Bridges | Somerville | Entrepreneur | AeroShield Materials Inc. |
| John Webre | Sacramento | Consultant | Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture |
| Rachel Salazar | Sacramento | Government Employee | California Energy Commission |
| Alyssa Haerle | Los Angeles | Private Company Employee | Circuit Transit |
| Latonya Jones | Hazel crest | Other | |
| Ruchi Shah | San Francisco | Project Developer | Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) |
| Helle Petersen | Fresno | Accelerator Staff | WET Center |
| James Dulgeroff | SN BERNARDINO | University Staff | California State University San Bernardino |
| Vrushali Mendon | Berkeley | Researcher | Resource Refocus LLC |
| Tarannom Parhizkar | Los Angeles | Researcher | UCLA |
| Rebecca Heilig | Consultant | ||
| Lauren Chang | Private Company Employee | Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | |
| Nick Brown | Long Beach | Consultant | Build Smart |
| David Johnson | Oakland | Consultant | SERA Architects |
| Linda Klein | San Francisco | Private Company Employee | Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP |
| Alex Moor | Vancouver | Private Company Employee | Invinity Energy Systems |
| Chadwick Collins | Private Company Employee | ||
| Lauren Zullo | New York | Project Developer | Jonathan Rose Companies |
| Rick Theis | Sebastopol | Researcher | The Climate Center |
| JoAnne Golden | Santa Monica | Consultant | Gladstein, Neandross & Associates |
| Mark Lessans | Private Company Employee | Johnson Controls | |
| Tim Hreha | Private Company Employee | ||
| Anirudh Mathur | Consultant | Optimized Thermal Systems | |
| Debran Jones Reed | Sacramento | Entrepreneur | SDG&E |
| Aanchal Kohli, D. Env. | Government Employee | California Air Resources Board | |
| Meghan Harwood | Consultant | ||
| Marna Schwartz | Berkeley | Government Employee | |
| Adam Cleary | San Ramon, CA | Consultant | Cardno, Inc |
| Ryan Hamilton | Brewer | Private Company Employee | Nyle Water Heating Systems |
| Stephan Barsun | Consultant | ||
| Robert Perry | Simi Valley | Consultant | Synergistic Solutions |
| Yuval Edrey | Researcher | GTI | |
| Marshall Hunt | Consultant | ||
| Shar Moaddeli | Downey | Other | Southern California Gas Company |
| Alexandra Kovalick | Sacramento | Government Employee | California Energy Commission |
| Jay Gentry | Carmel | Other | CCT Inc |
| Devin Middlebrook | Government Employee | ||
| Jackson Thach | Government Employee | ||
| Paige Rutten | Private Company Employee | Blue Planet Energy | |
| Ginger Thompson | Sacramento | Consultant | Dreyfuss + Blackford Architecture |
| Rick Turley | Entrepreneur | ||
| Bob Houston | Sacramento | Other | Houston Magnani and Associates |
| Katie Van Dyke | Berkeley | Government Employee | City of Berkeley |
| Theresa Perry | Washington | Other | The Solar Foundation |
| David Lehrer | Berkeley | Researcher | Center for the Built Environment (CBE) UC Berkeley |
| Tim Minezaki | Oakland | Researcher | Energy Solutions |
| John Hodgson | Sacramento | Other | The Hodgson Company |
| Sharon Bautista | Los Angeles | Other | Association of California Energy & Community Services |
| Tom Barrett | Consultant | ||
| Amy Egerter | Oakland | Other | Rocky Mountain Institute |
| Yu Hou | Government Employee | ||
| Ken Murray | Davis | Entrepreneur | Murray Tech Law |
| Sophia Racke | Davis | Private Company Employee | ZYD Energy |
| Erik Stokes | Government Employee | ||
| Yanda Zhang | Davis | Entrepreneur | ZYD Energy, Inc. |
| Michael Savage | Santa Barbara | Consultant | SavCo |
| Chris Ochoa | Sacramento | Private Company Employee | CBIA |
| David Ware | Auburn | Private Company Employee | Knauf Insulation |
| Greg Kelley | Private Company Employee | Johnson-Peltier Electrical Contractor | |
| Timothy Washington | Riverside | Entrepreneur | Grit And Turtle Ventures |
| Ben Eckold | San Diego | Consultant | CityWorks |
| G.G. Merkel | Other | Association For Energy Affordability | |
| Jerald Cole | Long Beach | Consultant | |
| Dover Janis | San Diego | Entrepreneur | Ivy Energy |
| Greg Thomson | Consultant | ||
| Cara Bautista-Rao | Government Employee | City of Walnut Creek | |
| Marissa Van Sant | San Diego | Consultant | TRC |
| Thomas Hotton | Indio | Other | |
| Ben Schott | Consultant | ENERGY STAR | |
| Erica Chac | Sacramento | Government Employee | California Energy Commission |
| Ezana Emmanuel | Other | SoCalGas | |
| Sarah Pittiglio | Sacramento | Government Employee | CARB |
| Srinidhi Sampath-Kumar | Other | California Housing Partnership | |
| Holly Yanai | Los Angeles | Consultant | Gladstein, Neandross, and Associates |
| Dylan Anderson | Arcata | Researcher | Redwood Energy |
| Jose Lopez | Government Employee | ||
| Adam Lokar | City of San Carlos | Government Employee | |
| Kristen Bellows | Consultant | TRC | |
| Jane Kao | Millbrae | Government Employee | City of Millbrae |
| Craig Tranby | Government Employee | ||
| Paul Campbell | Plainfield | Private Company Employee | Navitas Partners Inc. |
| Mahsa Nicknam | Consultant | Global Energy Credit | |
| Mahbub Khandaker | Davis | Researcher | Energy Systems |
| Felipe cano | Los Ángeles | Project Developer | CommunityElectricity |
| Monika Weiss | Fairfield | Other | ergSol, Inc. |
| Shannon Dumdum | Porter Ranch | Consultant | |
| Kate Unger | Glendale | Community Advocate | Glendale Environmental Coalition |
| Antonella Cano | Los Angeles | Other | |
| Brian Schmidly | Other | ||
| Stuart Lombard | Toronto Canada | Entrepreneur | ecobee inc. |
| Afu Okosun | Project Developer | Sophistichet | |
| Mabell Garcia Paine | Los Angeles | Entrepreneur | Viridis Consulting |
| Laurie Purpuro | ALEXANDRIA | Consultant | |
| Colleen Santistevan | Private Company Employee | TRC | |
| Nauman Khurshid | Consultant | TRC | |
| John Sousa | New Jersey | Private Company Employee | N.J. Clean Energy Program |
| Mikela Topey | Los Angeles | Consultant | Frontier Energy, Inc. |
| Sahar Abbaszadeh | Los Angeles | Consultant | Arup |
| Scott Johnson | San Rafael | Project Developer | EAH |
| Trai Her-Cole | Government Employee | FCOG | |
| Rachel DiFranco | Fremont | Government Employee | City of Fremont |
| Alok Singhania | Fremont | Project Developer | Gridscape Solutions |
| Brielle Acevedo | Sylmar | Government Employee | San Gabriel Valley Regional Housing Trust |
| Megan Ross | Los Angeles | Government Employee | |
| Casey Dailey | Government Employee | Western Riverside Council of Governments | |
| Tammy Gordon | Indio | Government Employee | Coachella Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District |
| Amelie Besson | Private Company Employee | MidPen Housing | |
| Shivali Gowda | Richmond | Government Employee | CivicSpark and City of Richmond |
| Justin Allison | San Luis Obispo | Private Company Employee | Wathen Castanos Homes |
| Leah Louis-Prescott | Other | ||
| Claudia O'Brien | McLean | Other | Latham & Watkins |
| Paul Singarella | Palm Harbor | Project Developer | TBT Capital |
| Michael Mowrey | Rancho Santa Fe | Entrepreneur | |
| Mimi Cheung | Project Developer | ||
| Chucho MP | Community Advocate | ||
| Sean Armstrong | Arcata | Consultant | Redwood Energy |
| Cory Downs | Chula Vista | Government Employee | City of Chula Vista |
| Sierra Pencille | Government Employee | ||
| Scott Salyer | Santa Rosa | Government Employee | Sonoma Clean Power |
| April Price | Community Advocate | Community Environmental Council | |
| Shawn Rosenmoss | SF | Government Employee | SF Department of Environment |
| Hilary Noll | San Francisco | Private Company Employee | Mithun |
| Erik Bakke | San Francisco | Project Developer | Enel X |
| Katie Gladych | Irvine | Researcher | California Plug Load Research Center UC Irvine |
| Eugene Lee | Sacramento | Government Employee | California Energy Commission |
| Tiffany Mateo | Government Employee | California Energy Commission | |
| Dan Drazan | Consultant | ||
| Abe Baca | Other | ||
| Tom White | Hayward | Project Developer | Eden Housing Inc. |
| Wendy Boyle | San Jose | Consultant | Clean Coalition |
| Nik Nikolov | University Staff | Lehigh University | |
| Katie Altobello | San Diego | Government Employee | San Diego County Regional Airport Authority |
| Adam Hasz | Washington, DC | Government Employee | US DOE |
| Courtney Pene | San Luis Obispo | Government Employee | San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport - San Luis Obispo, CA |
| Brady Van Engelen | San Jose | Consultant | Bloom Energy |
| Hailey Lang | Government Employee | San Joaquin Council of Governments | |
| Alison Seel | Community Advocate | Sierra Club | |
| Senait Forthal | Community Advocate | OC Goes Solar | |
| Ben Granholm | Sacramento | Private Company Employee | Western Propane Gas Association |
| Ryan Tam | Sacramento | Government Employee | SMUD |
| Michael Arvizu | San Diego | Private Company Employee | TRC Companies |
| Emily Bowers | Atlanta | Other | Green Building Initiative |
| Shyla Black | Chico | Project Developer | GRID Alternatives |
| Arianne Ortegaray | Community Advocate | GRID Alternatives North Valley | |
| Merrian Borgeson | Community Advocate | ||
| Emily Evans | Golden | Government Employee | NREL |
| Michael Chiacos | Santa Barbara | Community Advocate | Community Environmental Council |
| Morgan Fabian | Entrepreneur | ||
| Wesley Sagewalker | Davis | Project Developer | Gateway Developments Group |
| David McCoard | El Cerrito | Community Advocate | Sierra Club |
| Hari Lamba | Entrepreneur | Brighter Climate Futures www.brighterclimatefutures.com | |
| Brandon Kaysen | Ventura | Government Employee | City of Ventura |
| Kim Orbe | Community Advocate | ||
| Stella Ursua | Los Angeles | Other | GRID Alternatives-Greater Los Angeles |
| Vic Burconak | Mississauga | Entrepreneur | Koben Systems Inc. |
| Elizabeth Havey | City of Arvin | Other | LGC - CivicSpark Fellow |
| Samuel Maimone | Ripon | Consultant | Ducttesters. INC. |
| Mayte Sanchez | Los Angeles | Other | Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator |
| Cristina Echeverria | Sacramento | Government Employee | CARB |
| Murtaza Baxamusa | National City | Private Company Employee | San Diego Building Trades Family Housing Corp. |
| Jennifer Wood | Sacramento | Consultant | JT Wood Soils Consulting |
| Leslie Purcell | Ventura | Other | |
| Gita Dev | Woodside | Other | |
| Andrea Barnier | Other | Self-Help Enterprises | |
| Betsy McGovern-Garcia | Project Developer | ||
| Jose Flores | Visalia | Project Developer | Self-Help Enterprises |
| Pam Goode | San Francisco | Consultant | VMWP |
| Meghan Duff | San Francisco | Consultant | AEA |
| Cameron Gray | Santa Barbara | Community Advocate | Community Environmental Council |
| Gabe Escobedo | Other | City of Santa Barbara Planning Commissioner | |
| Jennifer Berg | San Francisco | Government Employee | Association of Bay Area Governments |
| Adam Gottlieb | Sacramento | Government Employee | CA Energy Commission |
| Michael Germeraad | Government Employee | MTC/ABAG | |
| Erica Helson | Ojai | Government Employee | County of Ventura |
| Kingdom Gould | Woodland Hills | Entrepreneur | Gaia Green Earth |
| Simeon Gant | Sacramento | Community Advocate | GREEN TECHNICAL EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT |
| Jess D | Other | ||
| Virginia Lew | Sacramento | Government Employee | California Energy Commission |
| Hanif Montazeri | Entrepreneur | Enersion Inc. | |
| Kate Ringness | San Francisco | Consultant | SmartBlock Communities |
| Kerstin Roeck | Private Company Employee | ||
| Martha Segovia | Capistrano Beach | Government Employee | SBCCOG |
| Lee Casey | Other | Sales | |
| Kristina Bell | Project Developer | ||
| Bryan Dove | Sacramento | Other | Mutual Housing California |
| Andra Keay | Oakland | Accelerator Staff | Silicon Valley Robotics |
| Malissa Long | Wichita | Community Advocate | MakeICT |
| Dover Janis | San Diego | Private Company Employee | Ivy Energy |
| Kathryn Collins | Consultant | Guidehouse | |
| Adam Briones | Oakland | Community Advocate | Economic Equity Director |
| Nichalas Troudt | Newport Beach | Private Company Employee | Milender White |
| Feliz Ventura | Oakland | Consultant | Hatch |
| Jeffrey Chase | Private Company Employee | ||
| Rachael Hartofelis | Government Employee | Metropolitan Transportation Commission | |
| Shirley Johnson | Rohnert Park | University Staff | Mendocino College |
| Lauren Crandon | Researcher | OnTo Technology | |
| Mustafa Homsi | Los Angeles | Entrepreneur | Rivieh, Inc. |
| Aaron Holm | Sacramento | Project Developer | Blokable |
| Angelina Rahimi | Sacramento | Consultant | Aura Planning Inc. |
| Ladan Ghobad | Sacramento | Consultant | ENERlite Consulting, Inc |
| Adria Fox | San Diego | Project Developer | Communities for Global Sustainability |
| Krystalin Bullicer | Project Developer | Many Mansions | |
| William Clark | Private Company Employee | ||
| Candice Delamarre | Stanford | Researcher | Stanford |
| Edward Ober | Thousand Oaks | Consultant | Grant Management Associates |
| Rick Blumenthal | Bainbridge Island | Private Company Employee | Knauf Insulation |
| Steve Messner | Sonoma | Consultant | iCatalysts |
| Shuba Raghavan | Researcher | U.C.Berkeley | |
| Fabiola (Fabi) Lao | San Diego | Other | Center for Sustainable Energy |
| Eliot Kahn | Entrepreneur | ||
| William Buchan | Union City | Consultant | Market Potential, Inc. |
| Paul Kolarik | West Sacramento | Project Developer | West Sacramento Housing Dev Co |
| Daniel Lichtenberg | Private Company Employee | ||
| Glynis Nakahara | San Francisco | Private Company Employee | TEF Design |
| Gabe Bruno | Consultant | ||
| Phil Harrison | Napa | Entrepreneur | UBCO |
| Aimee Curtright | Researcher | RAND Corporation | |
| Elayne Fowler | Del Mar | Entrepreneur | Saltwater-strategies |
| Kathryn Collins | Other | ||
| RoseMary Avalos | Sacramento | Government Employee | California Energy Commission, Public Advisor's Office |
| Abigail Jacob | Sacramento | Government Employee | CEC |
| David Harris | La Mesa | Community Advocate | SanDiego350 |
| Abigail Solis | Visalia | Other | Self-Help Enterprises |
| Haider Alhabibi | Researcher | ||
| Zachary Phillips | Burlington | Entrepreneur | Rutgers |