Faculty Advisory Cabinet

The Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Faculty Advisory Cabinet comprises urban sustainability thought leaders from across campus. Members advise the Sustainable LA Grand Challenge on integrative and multidisciplinary strategies to advance urban sustainability solutions on regional and global scales that leverage the breadth and depth of urban sustainability expertise at UCLA.

Evelyn Blumenberg

• Professor, Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs
• Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

 

Madeline Brozen

• Deputy Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

 

Ann Carlson

• Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law, School of Law
• Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

 

Kyle Cavanaugh

• Assistant Professor, Geography, Division of Social Sciences and the Institute of Environment and Sustainability, Division of Physical Sciences
• Vice Director, Marine Center

 

Dana Cuff

• Professor, Architecture and Urban Design, School of the Arts and Architecture
• Director, cityLAB

 

Magali Delmas

• Professor, Management, Anderson School of Management and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Division of Physical Sciences
• Faculty Director, Impact@Anderson
• Director, Center for Corporate Environmental Performance

 

David Eisenman

• ​​​Professor-in-Residence, Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health and Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, David Geffen School of Medicine
• Director, Center for Public Health and Disasters
• Deputy Director for Community Partnerships, Center for Healthy Climate Solutions

 

 

Ursula Heise

• Professor and Chair, English
• Interim Director (Co-Founder), Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS)

 

Shaily Mahendra

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering

 

Juan Matute

• Lecturer, Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs
• Deputy Director, Institute of Transportation Studies

 

Rebeca Méndez

• Professor and Chair, Design Media Arts, School of the Arts and Architecture
• Director and (Founder), CounterForce Lab

 

Adam Millard-Ball

• Professor, Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs
• Acting Director, Institute of Transportation Studies

 

Ali Mosleh

• Distinguished Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering
• Director, The B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences

 

Jerry Nickelsburg

• Adjunct Professor, Economics, Anderson School of Management
• Faculty Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast

 

Paul Ong

• Professor Emeritus, Urban Planning and Social Welfare, Luskin School of Public Affairs and Asian American Studies, Division of Social Sciences
• Director, Center for Neighborhood Knowledge

 

Laurent Pilon

• Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Bioengineering, Samueli School of Engineering
• Program Director, Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS)

 

Stephanie Pincetl

• Professor, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Division of Physical Sciences
• Founding Director, California Center for Sustainable Communities

 

Gaurav Sant

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering
• Director, Institute for Carbon Management

 

Brad Shaffer

• Distinguished Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Division of Life Sciences and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Division of Physical Sciences
• Director, La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and California Conservation Genomics Project

 

Aradhna Tripati

• Associate Professor, Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, and Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, Division of Physical Sciences
• Faculty Director and Founder, Center for Diverse Leadership in Science

 

V. Kelly Turner

• Assistant Professor, Urban Planning, Luskin School of Public Affairs and Geography, Division of Social Sciences
• Interim Co-Director, Luskin Center for Innovation

 

Fabian Wagmister

• Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television
• Founding Director, Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance (REMAP)

 

Yifang Zhu

• Professor, Environmental Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health and Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Division of Physical Sciences
• Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs, Fielding School of Public Health
• Associate Director, Center for Clean Air