Eileen is an attorney and environmental advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area with a lifelong passion for protection and conservation of the natural world. Eileen studied environmental and public interest law at University of San Francisco School of Law, and spent the early days of her legal career working with San Francisco BayKeeper, Earthjustice’s International Program, and representing local and indigenous communities in their CEQA, NEPA, and Clean Water Act challenges to industrial pollution and land use decisions. She was appointed appellate counsel for indigent youth and adult offenders in the Fifth, Second, and Sixth District Courts of Appeal and before the California Supreme Court. In her current practice, Eileen litigates employment discrimination and labor suits, and advises small and large organizations on compliance with employment laws. She is an avid trail runner and hiker, certified yoga instructor, and a Rescue and Response Volunteer with the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.   

Doug Carstens is an environmental attorney and an activist and advocate for the protection of the environment, natural resources, and addressing climate change. He is the managing partner of the environmental plaintiff’s law firm Chatten-Brown, Carstens & Minteer, LLP which was founded by PCL past-president and longtime board member Jan Chatten-Brown. Doug has worked closely with the Planning and Conservation League to review legislation, give guidance on California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) related issues, and has been an on-the-ground advocate for an array of environmental concerns. In addition to bringing together coalitions, writing articles, and talking to the press, Doug has also facilitated CEQA workshops throughout California with the PCL Foundation to ensure communities can participate effectively in the environmental review process. Doug worked with environmental justice advocates in Los Angeles in an effort that ultimately culminated in the public acquisition of a large site in northeast Los Angeles for preservation. He is especially proud of such park advocacy and, along with Jan Chatten-Brown, his firm Chatten-Brown, Carstens & Minteer has also helped bring about the public acquisition of parklands in the Rio De Los Angeles State Park, the State Historic Park in downtown Los Angeles, and additions to the Kenneth Hahn State Park in Baldwin Hills. Doug was also a board member and President of the Sierra Nevada Alliance. Doug brings experience, effectiveness, and energy to the table. In 2011, Doug was the proud recipient of PCL’s Carla Bard Award for Individual Achievement. He looks forward to working with PCL to promote environmental protection, environmental justice, and quality of life in California in the future.   

Jen McGraw is the Director of Sustainability Innovation at the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT). Jen joined CNT in 1999 and leads CNT’s strategy to promote sustainable anti-poverty solutions for communities and manages CNT’s West Coast office. Jen has worked to promote urban sustainability in the areas of climate change, transportation, energy, stormwater, air pollution, and household cost of living. Jen has conducted greenhouse gas (GHG) research for the Clinton Foundation, Chicago Climate Action Plan, National Academies, Presidential Climate Action Plan, and many communities, and she has advised the development of national and international GHG protocols. Jen was the lead staff member and manager in developing the Memphis Blueprint for Prosperity. Jen has a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz. 

Sage Sweetwood is a retired Healthcare entrepreneur who founded one of the nation’s first PPO’s and was a key executive in a five-person health care start-up that grew into a BusinessWeek Top 1000 company. Earlier in his career, he was a management consultant and a medical researcher with several published journal articles. Sage has been active in community affairs for over 40 years. He has served as a mayor, a California Coastal Commissioner, and a regional council of governments board member. Sage also chaired a California Assembly Blue Ribbon Task force on Regional Government. He founded COOL, a business and community alliance, that stopped attempts to drill near shore oil wells off the coast of San Diego. Sage has been a long time board member of the Planning and Conservation League. Sage received his BA degree in Engineering from University of California at San Diego and his MS degree in Management from MIT. 

Kevin Johnson is a CEQA Attorney and civil litigator with law offices in Carlsbad, California. He has been a member of the PCL Board of Directors since 1987 and serves on a number of PCL Board Committees. He is a 1980 graduate of the University of California, Davis Law School and holds the coveted “AV” Professional Rating from Martindale Hubbell. Mr. Johnson’s law practice emphasizes representation of national, state, regional and local environmental organizations and citizens groups.   

David Mogavero is one of the most experienced practitioners and advocates of ecological building, planning, and infill development, and land use/ transportation policy. His commitment to human-based architecture, the revitalization of existing neighborhoods, economic and ecological sustainability of communities, and participation in the planning and design process by end-users is well-known and recognized within professional and citizen communities. Mr. Mogavero has actively lectured, written and advocated for environmentally sound urban development, including infill and higher density, transit and pedestrian-oriented development. Through his professional practice and tenure as a board member and President of the Environmental Council of Sacramento and The Planning and Conservation League, he has facilitated the widespread adoption of these principles in many projects and communities throughout California.   

Felix AuYeung is an affordable housing and social justice advocate who seeks a future where people live in harmony with each other and with the living Earth. He is currently the Vice President of Business Development for MidPen Housing Corporation, where he is responsible for launching new affordable housing communities throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He has 20 years of experience in the housing field, and in his 8+ years at MidPen, he has stewarded 4,500 affordable homes into the pipeline.

Felix holds a Master in International Development from the University of Pittsburgh and a Master of Science from MIT. He earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering with a minor in Peace and Conflict Studies from U.C. Berkeley. Between graduate schools, he worked a year in China on ecological design and rural development and a year tackling domestic food insecurity as a Congressional Hunger Fellow. He served on the Board of East Bay Housing Organizations (EBHO) from 2018 to 2024.

Judith Corbett is the co-developer of Village Homes, a model for sustainable development created in the late seventies. She went on to found the Local Government Commission, and served as its Executive Director — for 35 years helping local elected officials implement forward-thinking transportation, land use, water, air quality, solid waste, public health, economic, and equity programs and policies in their communities. She has authored or co-authored three books on sustainable development and written or edited multiple guidebooks and fact sheets for local governments on sustainability issues. Her leadership toward the creation of the nationally-recognized Ahwahnee Principles forsaw the development of the Smart Growth movement.   

Caroline Farrell is an Associate Professor and Director of the Environmental Law and Justice Clinic at Golden Gate University, School of Law. Caroline Farrell was the former Executive Director of the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment based out of CRPE’s Delano office. For over 20 years she has assisted low income communities and communities of color in the south San Joaquin Valley and throughout the country in their struggle for environmental justice. She quickly established a reputation as one of the Valley’s foremost environmental justice advocates, going toe-to-toe with agricultural polluters from Fresno to Bakersfield. Caroline has represented low income communities and communities of color on issues related to dairy development in the Central Valley, hazardous waste facilities, land application of biosolids, and land use planning issues. Caroline serves on the Steering Committee for the Central Valley Air Quality Coalition, the Steering Committee for the California Environmental Justice Alliance, on the Impact Fund’s Grant Advisory Committee and on the Board of Directors for Communities for a Better Environment, the Act for Women and Girls in Visalia, as well as the Planning and Conservation League.   

Dave Jones is Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center on Law, Energy and Environment (CLEE). Jones was Senior Director for Environmental Risk at The Nature Conservancy from January 2019 – June 2021 and a Distinguished Fellow with the ClimateWorks Foundation. At The Nature Conservancy, Jones led efforts to demonstrate successfully that insurance modeling is able to account for the risk reduction benefits of nature-based mitigation of risk and loss and that insurance losses and pricing can benefit from nature-based mitigation. Jones served as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 through 2018. He founded and chaired the Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF), an international network of insurance regulators developing climate risk regulatory best practices. Jones was the first US financial regulator to require disclosure of investments in fossil fuel assets due to concerns about climate change-related risk and the first to conduct climate risk scenario analysis of insurers’ investment portfolios. Jones has testified before Congress, state legislatures, the G-20 Financial Stability Board, and numerous regulatory agencies, about the need for financial regulators to address climate change and the risks it poses to the financial system. Jones is a graduate of DePauw University (B.A), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (MPP).

Ellison Folk is a partner with Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, a law firm that specializes in land use and environmental law. Ellison represents community groups, public agencies, and environmental organizations on a wide range of environmental and land use issues, including strategies for building decarbonization, CEQA, the California Coastal Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and general plan and zoning law. Ellison represented the City of Oxnard before the California Public Utilities Commission and the California Energy Commission its successful effort to oppose the location of a natural gas fired power plant on the beach in Oxnard. She has also developed successful legal strategies for phasing out natural gas infrastructure in new and existing development. Ellison graduated from Princeton University and received her JD and Masters in City Planning from the University of California, Berkeley.   

David Keller brings his love for social and environmental justice, public engagement and political activism to his work. He is currently the Bay Area Director for Friends of the Eel River, working on dam removal, salmonid fisheries and watershed restoration, resolving inter-basin water transfer conflicts, and helping to transform the defunct North Coast Railroad’s rail line to the Great Redwood Trail. He’s been a Board member of Sonoma County Conservation Action, a regional environmental advocacy, voter engagement and canvassing organization, and the founder and director of the Petaluma River Council. David was an elected member of the Petaluma City Council, pioneering the first adoption of form-based building codes (Smart Codes) for downtown redevelopment. He led the defeat of the first full privatization of a municipal wastewater treatment plant, resulting in a city-owned, created wetlands treatment facility instead. He advocated for ratepayer protections during the formation of an early community choice aggregation (SCP). He’s also been a member of the Bolinas Fire Protection District Board of Directors, a community mediator and trainer for Marin County, and a member of the Bolinas Lagoon Technical Advisory Committee. He is a manufacturer of specialized woodworking tools (the Keller Dovetail System) and was a furniture maker and carpenter. He holds a BA in Psychology and Sociology, cum laude, from the City College of New York, and did his graduate studies in Social Psychology at the University of Michigan.   

Phoebe Seaton is the Co-Founder, Co-Director, and the Legal Director of the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability. Phoebe, a native Californian, attended the University of California at Berkeley, where she received her B.A. She then spent time in Guatemala, working to address human rights violations, and went on to complete her J.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles. Phoebe joined CRLA, Inc. following law school and worked at the organization’s Delano office prior to launching the Community Equity Initiative, a program designed to address critical infrastructure and service deficits in low income, unincorporated communities in California. In 2013, Phoebe co-founded Leadership Counsel with Veronica Garibay also on PCL’s Board. Phoebe is based in Sacramento and leads Leadership Counsel’s state-level policy work.   

Terry Watt brings a wealth of experience in planning and implementation efforts focused on projects that promote resource conservation and sustainable development patterns and practices. Prior to forming her own consulting firm, she was the staff planning expert with the environmental and land use law firm Shute, Mihaly and Weinberger. Terry is an expert in general and specific planning and zoning, open space and agricultural land conservation strategies and environmental compliance. Facilitation, public outreach, project management and negotiation are among the skills Terry offers to a wide variety of California clients including non-profit organizations, government agencies and foundations. Recent clients include the Marin Countywide Plan Update and its Environmental Impact Report; the California Attorney General’s Office on a project related to climate change, CEQA and general plans; an environmental coalition that secured an Agreement with the Tejon Ranch Company for the permanent protection of 240,000 acres of the ranch; and several coalitions and organizations studying infill methodology dedicated to sustainable development patterns as a key strategy to achieving California’s emissions reduction targets.   

Denny created Move LA in 2007 to bring together business, labor and environmental leaders and organizations with the goal of raising significant new funding for LA County’s transit system. This coalition helped lead the campaign for the Measure R sales tax, and proved to be a powerful force in getting Measure R on the 2008 ballot and winning its passage, with the result that LA has embarked on an ambitious build-out of its transportation system. Previously Denny served on the Santa Monica City Council, including one term as mayor, during which time he initiated the revitalization of the Third Street Promenade. He wrote much of the land use policy for Santa Monica’s downtown, emphasizing pedestrian amenities, mixed-use development, and effective transit access — before these policies became known as “smart growth.” Denny was also executive director of the Coalition for Clean Air, and began his career by founding Santa Monicans for Renters Rights in the late ’70s, a progressive community coalition that has held a city council majority in Santa Monica for 24 of the last 30 years.   

Emily Martin is the National Wildlife Federation's Director of Conservation Partnerships (DCP) for Alaska, California, and Hawai'i. Emily enjoys having the opportunity to elevate local conservation issues to the national stage in the hopes of passing policies and directing funding toward protecting native wildlife.

Emily was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she saw the impacts of the climate crisis firsthand as traditionally snowy winters have become increasingly mild while summer temperatures now regularly hit new heights. Witnessing the changes in climate prompted Emily to attend the School of Environmental Studies which led her to pursue a degree in Environmental Studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Emily was awarded a Bacon Environmental Leadership Scholarship from the Harvard Kennedy School and completed a certificate in Nonprofit Leadership.

Emily spent the last decade working as the Federal Climate Policy Manager at a youth-led climate justice nonprofit whose mission is to get young people involved in passing bold, equitable, and science-based climate policies. After deciding that she wanted to pivot her focus to state-level and local issues, she is excited to join the National Wildlife Federation as a DCP which blends federal, state, and local conservation advocacy efforts.