Environmental and climate justice and technological carbon removal
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Maya Batres: Maya Batres is the associate director for the Carbon Dioxide Program at the ClimateWorks Foundation. She has over a decade of experience in climate and energy law and policy, human rights and social justice, is the recipient of an Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship, and an AmeriCorps VISTA alumni. She is a board member for Justice Outside. Maya earned her J.D. (Energy and Environmental Law) and her B.A. (Spanish Studies, African American Studies, Political Science) from the University of Minnesota.
Frances Wang: Frances leads the governance workstream to advance technological and ocean CDR at ClimateWorks Foundation. Before joining ClimateWorks, Frances worked in interdisciplinary environmental research with a focus on action-oriented solutions. At McGill University, she helped to lead and design innovative monitoring and evaluation frameworks for climate adaptation governance. She is the author of multiple academic publications featured in journals such as Nature Climate Change and Global Environmental Change. Frances holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University and a B.A. in Economics from McGill University.
Holly Buck is an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Buffalo. Dr. Buck is an expert on the social and political dimensions of environmental policies, and of strategies and technologies for preventing and adapting to climate change. Her book After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration examines best-case scenarios for carbon removal. She has written on several aspects of climate engineering, including humanitarian and development approaches to geoengineering, gender considerations, and human rights issues. She holds a doctorate in Development Sociology from Cornell University and a MSc in Human Ecology from Lund University, Sweden.
Rudra Kapila is the Senior Policy Advisor for Carbon Management, advocating for policies to put the United States on the fastest and fairest path to net-zero emissions by 2050. She holds a BSc Hons in Environmental and Ecological Studies and a PhD in Earth Sciences and International Relations from Univeristy of Edinburgh and a MSc in Enviornmental Chemistry and toxicology from Imperial College London. Also, she is the Co-Chair for the Climate Change Working Group at Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS), a non-profit organization committed to promoting diverse perspectives from WoC leaders within foreign policy and national security.
Ugbaad Kosar supports Carbon180's federal policy work, leading the organization's environmental justice initiative and forestry efforts. Ugbaad holds a dual M.Sc in forest sciences and renewable resource management from the University of Alberta and the University of Freiburg, and a B.Sc. from Carleton University.
Rachel Licker is a senior climate scientist with the Climate & Energy Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. In her role, Dr. Licker communicates climate science to policymakers, the public, and the media. She analyzes new developments in climate science and works to defend climate science budgets and programs. Dr. Licker earned her Ph.D. in environment and resources, and her B.S. in biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She also holds an M.S. in environmental studies and sustainability science from Lund University in Sweden.
Deepika Nagabhushan is program director of the Carbon Capture Program at the Clean Air Task Force. Her work involves policy research, policy development and analysis as well as advocacy management to enable carbon capture technologies become widely available as a climate solution by mid-century. She led macro-economic modeling project to test the impact of 45Q tax credits for carbon capture in the U.S. power sector. Her current policy work includes development of next generation policies to enable rapid carbon capture deployment by supporting basin scale management of geologic Co2 storage. She is also leading research to quantify the relationship between adding carbon capture on industrial plants and associated reductions in criteria air pollutant emissions.
Ester Rekhelman is a rising senior at the University of Virginia studying Global Environments and Sustainability. Her research experience includes working on a report evaluating potential for carbon sequestration in the state of Virginia and analyzing the effects of ozone in Virginia's forests.
Vanessa Suarez works on federal policy across land-based and technological carbon removal with an emphasis on environmental justice. She holds a B.S. in conservation and resource studies from UC Berkeley, and prior to C180 she worked on environmental justice policy and rangeland soil carbon storage research.