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    Staff

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    Puneet Bhullar

    Director of Policy Engagement
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    Henriette Canino

    Program Manager for Strategic Initiatives
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    Eric Chu

    Director of Science
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    Héctor Corzo

    Senior Science Officer
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    Keleigh Friedrich

    Director of Communications
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    Perry Gee

    Program Officer for Alumni Engagement
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    Rhianna Hohbein

    Senior Science Officer
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    Bethany Hopkins

    Science Fellows Program Manager
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    Lyia Jalao

    Senior Program Associate
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    Julianne McCall

    CEO
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    Bailey MkNelly

    Program Associate
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    Ope Oyewole

    Science Officer
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    Christy Shay

    HR and Bookkeeping Associate
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    Mikel Shybut

    Director of Strategic Initiatives
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    Mackenna Sullivan

    Program Officer
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    John Thompson

    Manager of Science Services
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    Judith White

    Executive Assistant
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    Board of Directors

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    Andrew McIlroy

    CCST Board Chair
    Sandia National Laboratories
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    Ishwar K. Puri

    CCST Board Secretary-Treasurer
    University of Southern California
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    Carol Burns

    CCST Board Member
    Berkeley Lab
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    Erika Bustamante

    CCST Board Member
    Stanford University
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    Peter Cowhey

    CCST Board Member
    UC San Diego
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    Bruce B. Darling

    CCST Board Member
    National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council
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    Harvey V. Fineberg

    CCST Board Member
    Harvard University
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    Richard C. Flagan

    CCST Board Member
    California Institute of Technology
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    Glenn A. Fox

    CCST Board Member
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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    William Jeffrey

    CCST Board Member
    Airstream Venture Partners
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    Aisha Lowe

    CCST Board Member
    Los Rios Community College District
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    Theresa A. Maldonado

    CCST Board Member
    UC Office of the President
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    Ganesh Raman

    CCST Board Member
    CSU Chancellor's Office Research Department
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    Dustin Schroeder

    CCST Board Member
    Stanford University
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    Jeffrey Scott

    CCST Board Member
    UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy
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    Rachel A. Segalman

    CCST Board Member
    UC Santa Barbara
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    Louis Stewart

    CCST Board Member
    NVIDIA
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    William G. Tong

    CCST Board Member
    San Diego State University
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    Eugene Tu

    CCST Board Member
    NASA's Ames Research Center
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    Science Advisors

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    Lawrence Chan

    AI Science Advisor
    California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
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    Michael Chen

    AI Science Advisor
    California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES)
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    Andrew Jones

    Science Advisor
    California Natural Resources Agency, Office of the Secretary
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    Justin Norman

    AI Science Advisor
    California Department of Technology (CDT)
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    Science & Technology Policy Fellows

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    Benjamin Blackburn

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Legislation and Regulatory Review
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    Sean Clair

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Assembly Water, Parks, and Wildlife Committee
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    Alexa Cohil-Milanick

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Assembly Utilities and Energy Committee
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    Kate Davis

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee
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    Erin de Leon Sanchez

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    California State Lands Commission
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    Ugbad Farah

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Assembly Emergency Management Committee
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    Natalie Gehred

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Senate Health Committee
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    Sarah Cate Hawthorne

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Assembly Education Committee
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    Cara He

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, Earthquake Early Warning
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    Manisha Kapasiawala

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Department of Finance
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    Nikka Malakooti

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation
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    Emily Miaou

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Senator Ben Allen
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    Sam Myers

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Senate Transportation Committee
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    Alyssa Poletti

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Senate Environmental Quality Committee
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    Fernando Romero Galvan

    CCST S&T Policy Fellow
    Department of Water Resources
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