Climate Change: Hope & Action hosted by Yale Alumni Nonprofit Alliance (YANA) & the Yale Club of San Francisco

Robert Dubrow, MD, PhD is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Faculty Director of the Yale Center on Climate Change and Health at the Yale School of Public Health. The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health utilizes research, education, public health practice, and policy engagement to help safeguard the health of human populations from adverse impacts of climate change and human activities that cause climate change. The Center works with academic, government, and civil society partners and aims to make local, national, and global impact and to integrate social justice into all of its work.

Jessica Gordon serves as Special Assistant for Environmental Affairs to California Attorney General Rob Bonta ’93, ’98 JD. Her portfolio spans environmental protection, environmental justice, energy, and land use issues. Some of her prior work includes: senior attorney at the California Air Resources Board, the state’s climate and air quality regulatory agency, and Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar.

Shereen D’Souza is a Senior Program Officer at the Climate at Skyline Foundation. Recently the Deputy Secretary for Climate Policy and Intergovernmental Relations at California's EPA, Shereen has over 20 years of experience working at the intersections of environment, climate, and equity. Her experience includes: grassroots food justice and sovereignty, the U.S. State Department’s team’s involvement in negotiating the Paris Agreement, and research on the benefits and risks in carbon market projects, and Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras.