PACE Team
Our Collaborative Partnership
The Partners Advancing Climate Equity (PACE) Pilot Program is offered by the California Strategic Growth Council (SGC) – a cabinet-level State organization dedicated to healthy, thriving, resilient communities for all – in partnership with Local Government Commission (LGC), Climate Resolve (CR), Urban Permaculture Institute (UPI), The Greenlining Institute (GLI), and Movement Strategy Center (MSC). PACE is supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Environmental Justice.
Our Values
From the program’s design to how we work together as a team, this collaborative initiative is grounded in the following core values:
Building authentic, symbiotic relationships for meaningful collaboration
Honoring, uplifting, and growing community leadership and knowledge
Shifting and restoring community power to encourage self-determination
Courage to address root causes rather than pursuing simple solutions
Transparency and collaborative governance every step of the way
Respect and care for participants’ time and capacity
Core Program Team
Kirin Kumar
PACE Program Lead Program Manager, Community Assistance for Climate Equity Team, SGC
Coral Abbott
PACE Program Lead Program Analyst, Community Assistance for Climate Equity Team, SGC
Julia Kim
PACE Project Manager Climate Change and Energy Program Director, LGC
Tia Tyler
PACE Implementing Partner Climate and Energy Project Manager, LGC
Catherine Foster
PACE Implementing Partner Climate and Energy Project Manager, LGC
Natalie Hernandez
PACE Implementing Partner Associate Director, Climate Planning & Resilience, CR
Bryn Lindblad
PACE Implementing Partner Deputy Director, CR
Ei Ei Samai
PACE Implementing Partner Partner/Designer, UPI
Antonio Roman-Alcalá
PACE Implementing Partner Partner/Designer, UPI
Kevin Bayuk
PACE Implementing Partner Partner/Designer, UPI
Corrine Van Hook-Turner
PACE Strategic Advisor Director of Climate Innovation, MSC
Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish
PACE Strategic Advisor Climate Innovation Program Manager, MSC
Emi Wang
PACE Strategic Advisor Environmental Equity Senior Policy Manager, GLI
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