Aaron Dickinson is a recent graduate of the CivicSpark program (17/18). He was placed with Water Education for Latino Leaders as a Water Action Fellow. Originally from Texas, Aaron now lives in the Bay Area where he works with the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation as a Water Research Associate.

Following her CivicSpark fellowship with the City of Vista, Elektra Fike-Data transitioned into sustainability consulting and currently works as a Sustainability Associate with Rincon Consultants Inc. aiding local governments and businesses in climate adaptation planning, best practice and initiative implementation, and climate­-conscious program development. She serves as a committee member for both the Center for…

Mitchelle De Leon is an environmental strategy consultant at California Environmental Associates (CEA). At CEA, he works with businesses and nonprofits to create large-scale impacts on a wide array of environmental challenges through in-depth research and analysis, strategic planning, regulatory and legislative monitoring and analysis, organizational development, and program design and evaluation. His clients include…

Originally from Southern California, Michael Consunji graduated in May 2017 from Occidental College with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Urban Environmental Policy with a minor in Education. While attending Occidental, Michael was on the varsity football team, and wrote a senior thesis on Investigating Best Practices for Implementing Solar Photo­-Voltaic Initiatives for Public Schools…

Krystalin Bullicer is a 2017­-18 CivicSpark Climate Alum residing in Ventura, CA. At the completion of her service year, she accepted the role of Sustainability Coordinator with her project partner, the Housing Authority City of San Buenaventura (HACSB). Her duties have expanded beyond community outreach and utility data management to include interfacing with staff, consultants,…

Emily Audet has a Bachelor’s degree with Honors in Environment, Economics, and Politics from Scripps College. Emily was a CivicSpark Climate Fellow from 2017­-18; she was placed with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, where she worked to protect human health from the impacts of climate change. She plans to pursue a career…

Sarah Huang is the Regional Coordinator for the Sacramento and Sierra Nevada Region of the CivicSpark program. Prior to joining LGC and the CivicSpark team as a Regional Coordinator, Sarah served as a CivicSpark Climate Fellow with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health working on issues focusing on the intersection of climate change and…

Amber McGarvey is the Operations Project Coordinator for the Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program, CivicSpark, which provides capacity building support for local governments throughout California to address climate change. Before joining LGC in January 2018, Amber worked at Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) based in San Rafael, CA. At SEI she supported the Energize Colleges program which empowers…