A fireside chat hosted by Michael Méndez, UC Irvine associate professor of urban planning and public policy.
Featured speakers are: former U.S. EPA Region 9 Administrator Martha Guzman Aceves and former FEMA Associate Administrator Justin Knighten.
Méndez, a UC Irvine Chancellor's Fellow and visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, was the Pinchot Faculty Fellow at the Yale School of the Environment before joining UC Irvine's faculty. His first book “Climate Change from the Streets,” published through Yale University Press (2020) was the winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, sponsored by the International Studies Association and the Association for Humanist Sociology’s Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Award. In 2022, he was awarded the Carnegie Fellowship.
