Eugene leads Work On Climate, managing staff and driving top-level strategy and partnerships. In his past life as a software engineer, he worked on Google’s bigdata and AI systems. Eugene dedicates his free time to climbing, enjoying art and music, and his two cats This One and That One.

Inbal leads community programs, communications, and organizational strategy at Work on Climate. She’s especially focused on how communities build real momentum — connecting people to each other, to meaningful work, and to collective action on climate. She also leads the Bay Area Food Systems chapter, where she works at the intersection of food systems and climate action. In her spare time, Inbal is an avid social partner dancer, acro-yoga monkey, and lover of all things outdoors.

Felix is responsible for building our programs targeting jobseekers and community members broadly. He brings a long and brilliant track record in online community management, working with marginalized groups, operations, communications, and nonprofit fundraising. Outside of Work on Climate, Felix spends time advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, promoting accessibility, and practicing regenerative agriculture in their kitchen garden.

Grace Mok is an operations and project management aficionado with experience across startups (FreeWill) and nonprofits (WE ACT for Environmental Justice, Rewiring America). She’s passionate about growing relationships to mobilize resources for worthy causes like climate action. In her free time, Grace likes to take walks from one end of NYC to another.

Eugene leads Work On Climate, managing staff and driving top-level strategy and partnerships. In his past life as a software engineer, he worked on Google’s bigdata and AI systems. Eugene dedicates his free time to climbing, enjoying art and music, and his two cats This One and That One.

Zack Braunstein works at the intersection of climate finance and philanthropy as the Principal Consultant at Climate Connectors, advising executives on mobilizing capital for global climate solutions. With 15+ years of experience, including as Chief of Staff at the Climate Emergency Collaboration Group, he has orchestrated partnerships among major philanthropies representing over a billion dollars. A former farmer, he loves spending time outside. After work you’ll likely find him kayaking, reading a science fiction novel, or learning the rules to a new board game.

Lynelle Cameron is an advisor, board member, founding CEO, and impact investor committed to accelerating the transition to a regenerative era.  She brings 20+ years of experience leading sustainability teams at Autodesk and Hewlett Packard, and founded the Autodesk Foundation, one of the first to use philanthropic capital for climate investments. She currently advises regenerative businesses and early-stage ventures, serves on boards including Keep Tahoe Blue and Work on Climate, is a Fellow with the Capital Institute, and taught Regenerative Economics and Culture as a visiting professor at Middlebury College. She also spent ten years in the nonprofit sector working at the intersection of people and planet in mountain ranges around the world.  She spends her free time trail running, hiking, biking, skiing and traveling with her family and friends.

Treasurer, Board Member. Battery Materials Scientist, chemist, passionate about climate solutions.

Jeremy is the Board Chair at Work On Climate and works on volunteering and strategy efforts. He invests in early-stage climate companies for work and enjoys hiking and spending time with family.

Stephanie Hanson is a fractional COO, leadership coach, and consultant to climate tech startups and social impact organizations. She spent 13 years helping to build One Acre Fund into an award-winning social enterprise serving millions of farmers across 10 countries in Africa, and is now fractional COO at Reverence, an early-stage health tech company. As a leadership coach, she specializes in helping early-stage startup founders, social impact leaders and their teams navigate rapid growth. She’s also a mentor for Venture for Climate Tech and senior advisor to Prevail Fund, a new foundation mobilizing bolder approaches to the world’s biggest problems.

Zoe Samuel is a Venture Partner at Starshot Capital. Zoe previously worked at Google, where she co-created Alphabet’s largest internal grassroots climate solutions community, Anthropocene, now over 4000 strong. Anthropocene supports Google climate projects such as Project Sunroof, AnthroKrishi, and many more, as well as providing educational and career resources to Googlers seeking to contribute to climate solutions. Zoe also led circularity and climate programs and engagement for gTech, one of the larger divisions at Google, working toward a world without waste.
Fun fact: Zoe once milked over 250 cows, knows the scores of over 50 musicals, and makes world-class roast potatoes.

Megan is a committed climate and sustainability executive with a 20-year track record of raising capital, building teams, and leading strategy and operations at the business unit and global enterprise level. She has planned and led fundraising efforts ranging from $4M-$12B working extensively with
philanthropists, investors, and boards at Breakthrough Energy, The Nature Conservancy, and Russell Philanthropies.

Known for launching new initiatives, elevating performance, and turning things around, Megan has deep experience and passion for building vibrant communities of high performers striving to change the world.

She has an MBA, a Masters in Environmental Law & Policy, and a Bachelors in Biology & Environmental Studies.

David Jay has over two decades of experience building and leading social movements which drive systemic change. As the founder of Relationality Lab and the author of the award-winning book “Relationality”, David is a leading expert in the ways that organizations can bring people into relationship to build power towards systemic change.

Alex Stinson is a movement builder and technologist, who spent most of the last 15 years helping the global Wikipedia community support movement building and effective partnerships. Since 2020, he has also helped create a community of practice that contributes in dozens of languages to content related to sustainability and climate through campaigns like WikiForHumanRights, the Organizer Lab and the Open Climate community. Alex is a 2025 graduate of the Climate Drift Accelerator, and is planting a syntropic food forest in Uruguay.

Roshan Paul is an award-winning social entrepreneur with over 20 years of global experience on 6 continents. Currently, he leads Surge Climate Talent, a new initiative to deploy talent to critical areas of climate action. He co-founded Amani Institute, which guided 10,000+ people from 65+ countries under his tenure as CEO and was the leading talent development organization for social impact based in the global south. He co-authored the Amazon #1 bestseller The New Reason to Work: How to Build a Career that will Change the World. Roshan has spoken at over fifty universities and other institutions around the world, including delivering a commencement speech and two TEDx talks.

Nisha has a background in commercializing a diverse array of technologies related to energy and climate. She has founded two startups focused on solar software and climate investment, and she has worked at 5 other startups ranging from energy storage to water to solar power. As a noted clean energy industry expert, Nisha has previous served on the boards of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Greentown Labs, and the Texas Renewable Energy Industries Alliance. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Marco Morawec is an impact entrepreneur at the intersection of talent, education, and climate.

Originally from Germany, he started in the US with $18 in his pockets.

In the last decade, he bootstrapped his online education company to be the market leader, helped 1,000s of people transition into higher-paying jobs, and eventually got acquired by the fastest-growing EdTech company at the time, Trilogy Education.

At Trilogy he scaled the entire online offering into an 8-figure business in the first year, culminating in a $750M acquisition.

Today, he’s growing Climate Drift, providing training, networking opportunities, and skill-building projects to help mid-career professionals demonstrate their value and navigate the climate job market with confidence.

I currently work as a ML lead for Social Impact at Meta and also hold a specialization in non profit board management. Growing up, I was taught the concept of “Vasudaiva Kutumbakan” which means the world is one single family and has always inspired me to use my skills to care for every being and planet earth.

WoCI has planetary care at its core of its mission. As an organization it is at an inflection point where its community and impact can scale exponentially more with the right expertise and that is what excites me overall in joining the advisory board.

Mehrad Yaghmai is the Managing Partner of Cool Climate Collective, investing in and supporting early-stage climate ventures, applying systems thinking to scale solutions that meet the moment. His climate work spans education, venture development, and impact-driven initiatives, from programming for corporate VCs to contributing to the development of a climate-focused board game.

An alumnus of UC San Diego and Dubai Future Accelerators, he spent a decade in Dubai as a founder and ecosystem builder, supporting MENA-based incubators and accelerators. He also co-hosted the Streams of Progress podcast and built ventures across e-commerce, EdTech, and SaaS, taking them from ideation to scale.

Sruti Bharat is a 3x CEO (two workforce- and talent-oriented nonprofits, All Raise and FutureMap, and now Campground). After starting her career in the private sector (Silicon Valley software company, Bain consulting, and MBA), she pivoted to the workforce sector where she has led and advised talent initiatives across sectors including climate, VC, STEM, etc. After experiencing countless challenges scaling programs and reporting on data, she started Campground, a purpose-built platform to launch and run, measure, and scale programs. She also runs a community for program leaders to promote best-practice sharing as part of her passion for ecosystem-building. Sruti was born and lives in Oakland, CA.

Kirk’s career spans technology, energy, and venture, with a focus on scaling early-stage companies. He began as a consultant chemical engineer to Cleantech 1.0 pioneers, including GreatPoint Energy – funded by Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins, Elevance Renewable Sciences – funded by TPG and SPAC’d, and SmartSignal—acquired by GE. He later worked as a research engineer in oil and gas, evaluating emerging technologies and earning two patents. Transitioning to tech, he became an early product hire at the unicorn big data startup Uptake, co-founded a grid software startup, and led operations at a Plaid-backed payments startup. More recently, he served as an advisor at the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, its “moonshot factory”, his time there included presenting to the National Academies of Science and Engineering on carbon removal pathways.

Beyond his professional work, Kirk has mentored teams at Stanford Climate Ventures, and previously served as judge for Chicago Public Schools Science Fair. He holds a degree in chemical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Chicago Booth.

Arianna is the CEO and Co-Founder of Matchbox, a platform and support network helping associations launch and deliver digital initiatives and online experiences. Her humble entrepreneurial spirit blossomed at the young age of 7 when she earned $1.15 USD (adjusting for inflation is $1.74) renting out art supplies to her underwhelmed neighbors. Fast forward a few years, and life plopped her into the ever welcoming arms of the association community. Her passion lies in bringing people together to co-create, so much so that she might have named her company Gestalt (had “gestalt” been a more attractive word.)

Laura C. Rudert is a recognized international expert in sustainable and inclusive economic development. She is the Founder and Principal of the strategy firm Partners for Reimagined Economies. Previously, Laura worked at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and as a diplomat and senior executive with the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), involved with multi-billion-dollar infrastructure and economic reform programs. In 2012, Diplomatic Courier Magazine recognized her as one of the top 99 foreign policy professionals under the age of 33.

Christopher Mortweet is General Counsel at Renew Home, working on virtual power plants as a clean and affordable solution to help power the grid. Previously, he served as business counsel at Nest Energy (Google), founded a climate strategy consulting company, and practiced as an attorney at major law firms. Christopher uses his experience across business, strategy, law, and policy to advance solutions to the climate crisis. Outside work, he enjoys spending time with his family and very lazy rescue pittie, and amassing books with little hope of reading them all.

Zac Hill is the co-founder and President of the Office of American Possibilities, the ‘launchpad for civic moonshots’ behind initiatives like Welcome.us, More Perfect, Frontline Justice, and Resilient America. He was also the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the Future Project, a national education nonprofit. Zac was also a lead game designer of Magic: The Gathering, Magic Duels, and Esther Perel’s “Where Should We Begin?”

Lorin Fries has devoted her career to co-creating more regenerative, nutritious, and equitable food systems. She is the founder and leader of FutureTable, an impact advisory firm that supports changemakers driving transformative action at the nexus of food and climate. Previously, Lorin led the Global Food Systems Collaboration portfolio at the World Economic Forum, forging coalitions across governments, businesses, and civil society on global issues and in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Her earlier experience includes management roles with USAID and Save the Children in Uganda.

A respected thought leader, Lorin has delivered TEDx and keynote talks, and her writing has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and other outlets. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School. Lorin lives in the Bay Area of California with her husband and young daughter.

Matt Stobo is a talented web designer and artist who has a passion for all things creative. With a focus on creating beautiful and functional websites, His love of travel has taken him to some of the most beautiful corners of the globe, and he currently calls New Zealand home.

Sean Stobo is an experienced Senior Web Developer, team leader, code trainer, and positive, supportive individual. He specializes in writing modern, performant, and climate friendly code, in PHP, React, Javascript, and SCSS. He loves building beautiful and efficient platforms that allow his clients to reach their audience and show themselves in the best possible light. Sean takes pride in writing green code and creating efficient solutions for large, high performing teams. He believes in the importance of climate friendly programming and is dedicated to creating platforms that are both sustainable and powerful.

Gabriel Dias is a talented web developer and coder from Brazil. He has a strong understanding of programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP, and is always eager to learn new technologies to improve his work. With his attention to detail and commitment to quality, Gabriel is dedicated to delivering exceptional results to his clients.

Nikou Nazaripour and Colette Sensier work together as the SeeSay Studio consultancy, creating new narratives for brands. Both are semiotic and cultural researchers; Nikou is also a graphic designer and illustrator, while Colette has a creative writing background. They are based in London and Lisbon.