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Abby Edwards

Ariadna Hernandez
Abby Edwards a CivicSpark Project Coordinator working with the Operations team in Sacramento. Abby received a BA in Environmental Studies from UC Santa Cruz in 2014. She worked for the university for a couple years before joining the Peace Corps in 2016. Her primary work addressed food insecurity through developing income generating activities with women…

Skylar Johnson

Ashoka Alvarez
Skylar is currently a Sustainability Specialist for UC Davis Student Housing and Dining Services where she manages sustainability education and engagement programs for Student Housing residents, and large waste-diversion initiatives during residence hall move-in and move-out.  Before joining UC Davis, she served as a CivicSpark fellow at the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. As…

Beautiful Nowhere Place

Ariadna Hernandez
April Great Story by Ayelet Zamek, 2018-19 Central Coast Water Fellow Yellow. Orange. Another kind of orange. After a wet winter, driving down Highway 58 in April turns into an elementary-style exercise in knowing one’s colors. Purple. Blue. More yellow.  Even the most responsible divers, AAA cards tucked in the sun visor, would be distracted…

Katie Webster

Ariadna Hernandez
Katie Webster joined the Local Government Commission (LGC) in 2019 as a Project Coordinator with the CivicSpark™ Operations Team. CivicSpark™ is a Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program, which provides capacity-building support for local governments throughout California to address climate change. Prior to joining LGC, Katie was an Outreach Coordinator at GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit solar installer.…

Big Small Town

Ariadna Hernandez
January Great Story by Andrew Wakelee, 2018-19 Central Coast Climate Fellow My hometown of Ventura is a big small town. When both sets of my Grandparents arrived here in the early 1960s from upstate New York and Ohio to find better weather and opportunities, Ventura was a rural town of a mere 20,000 people. Today…

Molly Marcussen

Ariadna Hernandez
Molly Marcussen graduated from California State University, Chico with a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with a concentration in Environmental Planning and Environmental Studies. She minored in Geography and earned a certificate in Land Use and Environmental Planning. Molly began her career as a CivicSpark Climate Fellow in Butte County & the City of Chico…

Danielle V. Dolan

jdehart
Danielle V. Dolan has been working in environmental education, engagement, and advocacy for the last 14 years, with the latter half in California water issues. Ms. Dolan was hired by the Local Government Commission in 2014 to lead LGC’s water programs — engaging on statewide policy initiatives and implementing projects at the local level. LGC’s…

CivicSpark Recognized on National Service Day

Ariadna Hernandez
On April 5, 2016, the fourth annual nationwide Mayor and County Recognition Day for National Service recognized the collective powers of AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and citizens’ programs as cost-effective strategies to overcome local challenges and address solutions to transform our cities and counties into thriving and safe communities. As of 2016, 3,539 mayor and county…

CivicSpark’s Inaugural Cohort Graduates!

Julia Kim
Sacramento, California – September 15, 2015 – The inaugural cohort of Governor Jerry Brown’s Initiative AmeriCorps program, CivicSpark, graduated yesterday. 35 CivicSpark fellows provided over 60,000 hours of service to California’s communities, helping 88 local governments build capacity to address and respond to climate change. Secretary John Laird for Natural Resources provided a keynote speech…
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