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Our Guests

We invite and cultivate relationships with speakers across the spectrum of climate thought leadership. Political figures like Hillary Clinton and Governor Rick Perry have inspired and provoked. Executives like former Chevron CEO David O’Reilly have surprised and challenged. Psychologists like Daniel Goleman and economists like Gernot Wagner have expanded our notions of what climate change means for us as people and a society. We’re constantly adding more diverse voices to the conversation, changing its tone from doomsaying and despair to opportunity and resilience.

"What we are need now is funding to build a much more resilient city, because there will be another storm. Climate change is real."

— Sylvester Turner

Mayor, Houston, Texas

"I realized my commitment and my task here is to change that global mood. And of course I can't change the global mood before I change myself, because as we know, change starts with self. "

— Christiana Figueres

Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Emily Castor

Director of Transportation Policy, Lyft

Amory Lovins

Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute

Gerry Tierney

Associate Principal, Perkins + Will

Jane Mayer

Staff Writer, The New Yorker and Author, Dark Money

Jane Goodall

Founder, Jane Goodall Institute;
United Nations Messenger of Peace

Jeff Horowitz

Founder, Avoided Deforestation Partners

James Coleman

High School Senior; Fellow, Alliance for Climate Education

Lou Helmuth

Deputy Director, Our Children's Trust

Corina MacWilliams

Co-director, Earth Guardians 350 Club, South Eugene High School

George Lakoff

Professor of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Robert Rosenthal

Executive Director, The Center for Investigative Reporting

Kevin E. Kelley

General Manager, Imperial Irrigation District

Abrahm Lustgarten

Reporter, ProPublica

Fran Spivy-Weber

Vice Chair, CA State Water Resources Control Board

Andrew Chung

Founder & Managing Partner, 1955 Capital

Holmes Hummel

Founder, Clean Energy Works

Danny Kennedy

Managing Director, California Clean Energy Fund

Jeremy Carl

Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Bob Inglis

Former Republican U.S. Representative, South Carolina

Steven Chu

Former U.S. Secretary of Energy; Professor of Physics and Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford

Naomi Oreskes

Professor of History of Science and Director of Graduate Studies, Harvard University

Cristine Russell

Freelance Science Journalist

Tom Toles

Editorial Cartoonist, The Washington Post

Cassandra Sweet

Reporter, Wall Street Journal

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