About Me

I never planned to run for any kind of election, but I did—hoping to challenge the entrenched power dynamics within the Sierra Club that often obstruct real climate action. Since 2017, I held both appointed and elected leadership roles, including California Zero Waste Committee Co-Chair, Conservation Chair, and Executive Committee Member. By 2024, I stepped down from all of them, realizing that the very dysfunction I aimed to confront—years of infighting and institutional inertia—was too deeply rooted to shift.

I’m still a Sierra Club member and continue to face the exhausting realities of exclusionary, hierarchical systems. The internal political circus has given me a sleeping disorder—leaving ample time to reflect on the organization's persistent transparency and accountability issues, chronicled by the media over the decades. Is the Sierra Club, founded in 1892 and now the largest environmental nonprofit in the U.S., really too big to fail?