OUR PEOPLE AND NETWORKS
UC-CSU NXTerra brings together the expertise and experience of educators from across the University of California (UC) and the California State University (CSU) systems.
At our core is the NXTerra Knowledge-Action Network (KAN)—formed in 2018 for the purpose of creating the NXTerra Digital Platform for climate crisis, critical sustainability, and climate justice educational resources.
The NXTerra KAN is comprised of the NXTerra Team and a growing number of expert educators from the UC and CSU systems.
The NXTerra Team: John Foran (UCSB), Sarah Jaquette Ray (HSU), and Richard Widick (UCSB).
Scroll down and meet the NXTerra KAN, and follow the links to see each member’s contribution.
NXTerra is an independent project of the Global Climate Leadership Council (GCLC) of the University of California, with additional guidance provided by the GCLC’s Faculty Education Engagement Committee (FEE) and the UC-CSU NXTerra Advisory Board.
How to use this Site: Contents, Indexes, Site Map, Glossaries, and Search Engines.
The NXTerra Team
Co-Directors & Project Lead
John Foran
Distinguished Professor of Sociology
Affiliated Professor of Environmental Studies
foran@soc.ucsb.edu
Sarah Jaquette Ray
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Humboldt State University
sr1487@humboldt.edu
Richard Widick
Sociologist, Visiting Scholar
Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
rwidick@ucsb.edu
The NXTerra KAN
Knowledge Action Network
Ryan Alaniz
Associate Professor
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
dr.ryan.alaniz@gmail.com
Amanda Baugh
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
CSU Northridge
amanda.baugh@csun.edu
Tori Derr
Associate Professor of Sustainability Education and Environmental Studies
CSU Monterey Bay
vderr@csumb.edu
Daniel Fernandez
Professor of Science and Environmental Policy
CSU Monterey Bay
dfernandez@csumb.edu
Summer Gray
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies/PhD in Sociology
UC Santa Barbara
summer.m.gray@gmail.com
Ken Hiltner
Professor of English
Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative
UC Santa Barbara
hiltner@english.ucsb.edu
Beth Rose Middleton
Associate Professor and Chair of Native American Studies
UC Davis
brmiddleton@ucdavis.edu
David Pellow
Professor, Chair, and Dehlsen Endowed Chair of Environmental Studies
Affiliated Professor of Sociology
UC Santa Barbara
pellow@es.ucsb.edu
V. Ramanathan
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences
Victor C. Alderson Chair for Applied Ocean Sciences
UC San Diego
vramanathan@ucsd.edu
Katherine Davis Reich
Associate Director, Strategic Planning and Communications
Center for Climate Science
UC Los Angeles
kreich@g.ucla.edu
Nicole Seymour
Associate Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics
Affiliated Faculty in Environmental Studies and Queer Studies
CSU Fullerton
nseymour@fullerton.edu
Mark Stemen
Professor of Geography and Planning
CSU Chico
MStemen@csuchico.edu
The NXTerra Advisory Board
Cully Nordby
Associate Director
UCLA Institute of the Environment
Stephen Wheeler
Professor, Landscape Architecture Program of the Department of Human Ecology
UC Davis
Abby Reyes, Director of Community Resilience Projects
Office of Sustainability
UC Irvine
Bill Tomlinson
Professor of Informatics
UC Irvine
Mark Stemen
Professor of Geography and Planning
CSU Chico
Ken Hiltner, Professor of English and Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative
UC Santa Barbara
The Faculty Engagement and Education Working Group of the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative
Cindy Larive (Chair)
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
UC Riverside
David Ackerly
Professor of Integrative Biology
UC Berkeley
Shauna Casey
Sustainability Programs Manager, Sustainability Office
UC Santa Cruz
Todd Dawson
Professor, Integrative Biology
Member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
UC Natural Reserve System
UC Berkeley
John Foran
Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies
UC Santa Barbara
Teamrat A. Ghezzehei
Assistant Professor, School of Natural Sciences
UC Merced
Travis Huxman
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Director, Center for Environmental Biology
Chair, Executive Committee of UCI Sustainability Initiative;
Co-chair, Faculty Task Force on Sustainability Education
UC Irvine
Lorraine Lopez
CNI Student Engagement Fellow
Undergraduate Student, Political Science
UC San Diego
Claudia Martinez
Project Lead; Executive Director, Educator Programs, Diversity and Engagement
UC Office of the President
Katie Maynard
Sustainability Coordinator
Academic Senate Sustainability Work Group
Department of Geography
UC Santa Barbara
Sarah McKinstry
Sustainability Manager
UC San Diego
Adam Millard-Ball
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
UC Santa Cruz
Cully Nordby
Academic Director, Institute of Environment and Sustainability
UC Los Angeles
Tapan Pathak
ANR Specialist, Sierra Nevada Research Institute
UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
UC Merced
Robert (Skip) Pomeroy
Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
UC San Diego
Jade Sasser
Assistant Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies
UC Riverside
Brian Siana
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics
UC Riverside
Matthew St. Clair
Director of Sustainability
UC Office of the President
Arianne Teherani
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
UC San Francisco
Jane Teranes
Lecturer/SOE, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UC San Diego
Stephen Wheeler
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Design
Department of Human Ecology