As a sustainability professional of 15 years, Tamara was elected to AASHE’s STARS Steering Committee serving as Chair and advocated for the adoption of the STARS benchmarking tool into CSU policy, the largest university in the country. She supervises the CSU Climate Action Grants & Loans Program, sits on the project team for the Climate Resilient Infrastructure Guidelines and Framework for CSU, and represents CSU with the statewide Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation (ARCCA). Tamara is Co-Founder and Advising Editor for CSU’s Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change. She is a LEED-GA, and Certified Change Management Practitioner.

Read Tamara’s SCUP Fellow research report, Public Higher Education in Today’s Climate Crisis: University–Community Engagement and Planning Strategies for Climate Resilience.