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Conference: May 20-21, 2026
Workshop: May 22, 2026

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Jodi Bechtel

Deputy Director of Environment and Sustainability

Clark County Nevada

Jerry BigEagle

Environmental Program Director

Upper Sioux Community Tribe

Frank Bigelow

Deputy Director of Community Wildfire Preparedness & Mitigation and Fire Engineering & Investigations Division

Aubin Vertueux Dzossa Bontse

Climate Resilience Fellow

Shi Institute for Sustainable Communities

Sonia Brubaker

Director, Office of Resilience and Sustainability

Robert Burgy

Climate and Sustainability Program Manager

Clark County Nevada

Michael Cahill

Climate Resiliency and Sustainability Planner

Town of Plymouth, MA

Monica Caparas

Research Associate

Woodwell Climate Research Center

Lung-Wen Antony Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Director, Urban Air Quality Laboratory

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Benjamin DeAngelo (Invited)

Director, Office of Climate Adaptation and Sustainability

Environmental Protection Agency

Dr. David Edwards

Chief Deputy Director

State of California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment

James Ehrlich

Director of Compassionate Sustainability, CCARE

Stanford University School of Medicine/CCARE

Keegan Gibbs

Field Operations Director

Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation

James Jennings

Director

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

Megan Kendall

Recycling Specialist, Environmental Services Department

City of San Diego

Kimberly Korioth

Chief Resilience Officer

State of Rhode Island

Melissa Kozakiewicz

Deputy City Manager

Kansas City, MO

Oliver Kroner

Director, Office of Environment & Sustainability

City of Cincinnati

Naresh Kumar, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Division of Atmospheric Sciences

Desert Research Institute

Laura Rosales Lagarde

Associate Professor - Environmental Sciences

Nevada State University

Melissa Languren

Assistant Planner

City of San Diego

Josh Lasky

Interim Assistant Vice President, University of Resilience

The George Washington University

Lisa Lin

Director of Sustainability

Michelle Lizama

Grant Manager

Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing

Nathan Lunstad, PhD, PE

Director, Division of Drinking Water

Utah Department of Environmental Quality

Adrian Alberto Madriz

Co-Executive Director and Co-Founder

Struggle for Miami's Affordable and Sustainable Housing

Katherine Markova

Partnerships Manager

Climate Interactive

Jordan McNamara

Staff Attorney

Center for Climate Integrity

Mo McReynolds

Director, Office of Sustainability

City of Indianapolis

Luke Metzger

Executive Director

Environment Texas

Yey Morales

Program Coordinator, Division of Race and Equity

City of San Diego

Hanqing Pan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor In Residence, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Drew Peltier, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Kalhara Perera

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Physics and Astronomy

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Pratik Raval

Chief Sustainability Officer

Fifth Third Bank

George Rhee

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Corey Riday-White

Managing Attorney

Center for Climate Integrity

Katie Rosenberg

Director, Environmental Justice

Department of Administration, Wisconsin

Valerie Rupp

Climate and Resilience Program Manager

City of Baltimore

Kelly Sanks, Ph.D

Climate Science Lead

Center for Climate Integrity

Alan Scott

Director of Sustainability

Michael Shank, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty, Center for Global Affairs

New York University

Alison Sloat, Ph.D.

Professor in Residence

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Cassandra Smith

Assistant Planner, Stormwater Department

City of San Diego

Kelley M. St. John

Climate Action Manager

City of Buffalo

Georgia Thomsen

Vice President

Tara Tisopulos

Deputy Director of Environmental Sustainability at OC Waste & Recycling

OC Waste & Recycling

Nicholas Vallejo

Recycling Specialist, Environmental Services Department

City of San Diego

Marco Velotta

Planning Project Manager and Chief Sustainability Officer

City of Las Vegas

Mahi Washim

Graduate Research Assistant

Northern Arizona University

Brent H. Woodworth

Chairman and CEO

Los Angeles Emergency Preparedness Foundation

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