

Teaching Faculty and Advisors
Course Directors

Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
Chair of Mental Health Council of CCHE

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Co-Chair of Mental Health
Council of CCHE

Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
University of California, Davis
Clinical Neuroscientist, Contemplative Researcher, Climate Educator
Lecturers

Adam Aron, PhD
Professor in the Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
Leader of UCSD Green New Deal
Author of The Climate Crisis Textbook

Ayisha Siddiqa
Climate Activist
Climate Advisor to UN Secretary General
Time Magazine Woman of the Year, 2023

Benjamin Franta, JD, PhD
Senior Research Fellow in Climate Litigation
Founder of Climate Litigation Lab
University of Oxford
Lawyer, Historian,
Physicist

Britt Wray, PhD
Director of Community-Minded Interventions for Resilience, Climate Leadership and Emotional Wellbeing (CIRCLE)
Stanford School of Medicine
Author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Anxiety
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Clover Hogan

Corrina Gould
Tribal Chair of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan
Co-Director for The Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

Dan Siegel, MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Founding Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center
University of California, Los Angeles

David Sherman, PhD
Professor in the Department of Psychology
Director of the Social Climate Science Lab
University of California, Santa Barbara

Founder of Idea Architects
Co-Author of The Book of Joy, The Book of Hope, and upcoming “Will We Be Okay?”

Dekila Chungyalpa, MA
Director of the Loka Initiative, Center for Healthy Minds and Healthy Minds Innovation
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Gayle Karen Young, MA
Organizational Development Leader
Former Chief Culture and Talent Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation

Greg Dalton, MIA
Producer and Host of Climate One from the Commonwealth Club
Climate Change Expert

Jade Sasser, PhD
Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of California, Riverside
Author of On Infertile Ground
Host of the Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question podcast

James Baraz, MA
Founding Teacher of Spirit Rock Meditation Center & One Earth Sangha
Co-Author of Awakening Joy

Jamie Bristow, MSc
Policy Development at Inner Development Goals
Former Director of The Mindfulness Initiative

Jhanisse Vaca-Daza, BA
Senior Program Officer and Freedom Fellowship Director, Human Rights Foundation
Co-Founder of Ríos de Pie

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
Developer and Founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Professor of Medicine Emeritus
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Julia Olson, JD
Founder and Executive Director, Our Children's Trust,
Lead Counsel on Youth Climate Litigation
Time 100 Leaders in Climate

Juliann Allison, PhD
Course Lecturer
Associate Professor in the Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies
University of California, Riverside
Author, Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics

Karen O'Brien, PhD
Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Human Geography
University of Oslo
Author of You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

Katharine Wilkinson, PhD
Executive Director and Co-Founder of The All We Can Save Project
Co-Host of A Matter of Degrees Podcast

Krista Tippett, MDiv
Thoughtleader, Peabody Winner, National Humanities Medalist
Host, On Being Podcast and Public Radio Program
Author of Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art

Kritee Kanko, PhD
Climate Scientist, Buddhist Zen Priest, Educator
Founding Spiritual Director of Boundless in Motion

Lilian Cheung, ScD
Lecturer and Director of Health Promotion & Communication
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition
Author of Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

Maria Teresa Kumar, MPP
Founding President and CEO of Voto Latino
MSNBC Contributor

Mark Coleman, MA
Founder of Awake in the Wild, Co-Founder One Earth Sangha
Founder of the Mindfulness Institute & Mindfulness Based Nature Awareness
Author of Awake in the Wild

Ofosu Jones-Quartey, BA

Rebecca Solnit, MJ
Author, Thought Leader, Historian, Activist
Co-founder of #NotTooLate Climate Movement
Project
Author of Not Too Late

Rhonda Magee, MA, JD
Professor, School of Law
Founder, Center for Contemplative Law & Ethics
University of San Francisco
Author of The Inner Work of Racial Justice

Rick Hanson, PhD
Senior Fellow, Greater Good Science Center
UC Berkeley
Founder of the Global Compassion Coalition
New York Times Best-Selling Author

Sander van der Linden, PhD
Professor of Social Psychology in Society
University of Cambridge
Author of Foolproof: Why We Fall

Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN
Non-Profit Leader, Clinical Scientist, and Mindfulness Teacher
Former President, Mind & Life Institute
Author of A Future We Can

Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Founder, Host, and Executive Producer of First Voices Radio
Guest Faculty Member at Yale University’s School of Divinity, Ecology and Forestry

Valentin Lopez
Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Native American Advisor to the University of California, Office of the President
UC Faculty Class Leaders

Alison Holman, PhD
Professor at the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing
University of California, Irvine
Expert on Effects of Disasters on Health

Anna Epperson, PhD
Assistant Professor of Health Psychology
University of California, Merced

Mandy Frazier, MS
Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate Group in Ecology
University of California, Davis

Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Clinical Professor at the Centers for Integrative Health in the Department of Family Medicine
University of California, San Diego

Cindy Wong, PhD
Adjunct Faculty, Lecturer: Global and Community Health
University of California, Santa Cruz

Dana Garfin, PhD
Associate Professor-in-Residence of Community Health Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles

Daniel Mello, PhD
Non-Senate Faculty of Psychology – School of Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts
University of California, Merced

David Presti, PhD
Professor in the Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley

Elissa Epel, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry
University of California,
San Francisco
Chair of Mental Health
Council of CCHE

Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Co-Chair of Mental Health Council of CCHE

Larisa Castillo, PhD
Associate Professor, Humanities Core Program
School of Humanities
University of California, Irvine

Philippe Goldin, PhD
Course Co-Director
Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
University of California, Davis
Clinical Neuroscientist, Contemplative Researcher, Climate Educator

Vickie Mays, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, & of Health Policy & Management
Director of the UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research & Policy
Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy Research
University of California, Los Angeles

Yassi Eskandari, Esq.
Director of the Center for Equitable Environmental Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara

Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA.
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Silvia Bunge, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley

Selin Nielsen, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Global Studies
University of California, Riverside
Mindfulness Instructors

Certified Mindfulness Meditation
Teacher and Ecotherapist
Nature Meditation Teacher

Life, Nature, and Climate Engagement Coach and Mindfulness Teacher
University of California, Santa Cruz

Cheryl Shah, BS
Certified MBSR Facilitator & Certified MSC Facilitator
University of California, San Diego

Licensed Clinical Psychologist
University of California, Santa Barbara

Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Los Angeles

Gail Wright, MD
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Santa Cruz

Jennifer Jacobs, BA
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Davis

Karen LeCocq, MA
Visual Artist and Mindfulness Instructor
University of California, Merced

Kazumi Igus, MA
UCLA Mindful Awareness Center-Trained Meditation Facilitator
Mindfulness Director, Instructional Coach, and Environmental Science Teacher
University of California, Los Angeles

Nichol Chase, ERYT-500, YACEP, TSM, BM
Certified Meditation Teacher
University of California, San Francisco

Richard Hunt, PhD
Certified Mindfulness Teacher
University of California, Riverside

Robert Lurye, MEd
Certified Mindfulness Teacher
University of California, Riverside

Rose Nisker, BA
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Davis

Shannon Jordan, MS
Workplace Program Co-Director
Certified MBSR Teacher
University of California, San Diego

Toni Martinez, MA
Mindfulness-Based Licensed Mental Health Therapist
University of California, Irvine

Anthony Maes,
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Berkeley

Viveka Ramel, PhD
Clinical Psychologist, Educator and Sustainability Practitioner
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Berkeley

Eve Ekman, PhD, MSW
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Berkeley
Course Staff

Elena Fromer, BS
Course Director
University of California, San Francisco

Jillian Grialou, MPH
Course Staff
University of California, San Francisco
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Lucy Kho, BS
Course Staff
University of California, San Francisco