Bay Area rooted resource organizer striving to reimagine a just future for all in a rapidly changing world. I'm a social justice activist working at the ACLU with a specialty in raising resources from wealth privileged communities. I'm an avid outdoorist and gardener too!
Karla Brollier
Karla Brollier is of the Yidateni Na' Tribe of the Ahtna Athabaskan peoples, she was born and raised in Alaska where she obtained her undergraduate degree as well as an MBA. Karla is the Founder and Senior Consultant for Saghani Consulting which is an emergent economy, social justice and climate impact consulting firm that works with clients to assess, develop, and implement strategies, initiatives, policies and to conduct research and evaluation the world’s most urgent social and environmental challenges.
Karla is the Founder and Director of The Climate Justice Initiative, which focuses on Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Climate Change. The Climate Justice Initiative is the first and only Indigenous led and focused climate change organization in the United States that protects both environmental and human rights, and the only Indigenous women-led and focused climate change organization in the US.
Karla is a catalyst in the climate and human rights movement in both the public and private sectors; she has spent much of her career consulting and working in emergent issues such as policy, economic models, environmental justice and has worked with the Climate Reality Project, the UN & directly with several US administrations and a multitude of international and nationally based climate change related programs and groups such as for the former VP Al Gore and the World Economic Forum. Karla has given plenary presentation at the international level including the WEF, presented at the United Nations, lectured at multiple universities, as well as facilitates and teaches workshops and classes around the globe.
Marie Gunter
Marie is a solar developer with a decade of experience in for-profit and non-profit renewable sectors, and another decade in high-tech. An active Equity, Inclusion & Diversity representative, Marie enjoys learning, speaking, and writing on these topics. Her lifetime commitment to community awarded her the honor of Special Recognition for Outstanding Community Service by the U.S. Congress, and was named one of Oakland’s top diverse leaders in the renewables industry. Favorite hobbies include travel, and VERY long walks, while inspiring others to co-create healthy human-to-earth connections. Marie studied Economics, and attended the California Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Wholistic Living Systems.
Kate "Sassy" Sassoon
Kate “Sassy" Sassoon has spent the last decade building her passion for efficient, effective and equitable communication into a thriving consultancy which offers facilitation, training, and organizational design to innovative organizations. She has developed transformative communication and decision making structures for countless organizations, and is known for her inspiring, irreverent, and unexpectedly empowering processes. She holds two degrees from UC Berkeley (one in Ecological Sustainability and another in Theatre & Performance) - and if she learned one thing from that time it’s the surprising power of cross-fertilization. She currently brings these skills and mindset to Singularity University in Silicon Valley.