People’s Climate Week is a homegrown climate gathering for young folks in the Bay Area. We aim to create space for practical climate solutions that span individual action, local policy advocacy, and systemic change.
Join us May 3-10, 2025, for a week of events centered on sharing knowledge, removing barriers to change, and forging connections. We hope you engage and come away with tangible lessons to make a difference. Any action, no matter how small, can change the game.
OUR TEAM
Becca Pu
Becca lives to funnel big money towards sustainable development and is passionate about re-inventing industries to be more circular, regenerative, and climate resilient. She’s spent the last few years building climate risk models for the World Bank and the stock market, believing that quantifying the negative financial impact of climate change can push companies to make better decisions for the planet. Becca also runs a sustainable fashion brand focused on upcycling indigenous textiles in rural China and hopes to start a living-wage cooperative in that region. She holds a B.S in Economics and Data Science from UC Berkeley.
Minho Park
Minho has dedicated his entire career stressing out about clean energy and clean transportation initiatives within the utility and municipal sectors. Currently, Minho is supporting clean energy programming for the Climate Change and Environmental Justice department with a legal nonprofit, Lawyers for Good Government. Prior to this, he designed and implemented utility-scale demand management and electric vehicle charging infrastructure incentive programs to advance renewable energy adoption in California. He holds a B.S. in Conservation and Resource Studies from UC Berkeley. After hours, Minho likes to turn off his brain, power down, and plug into the nearest 120V outlet. Oh, and he plays a lot of music.
Josh Papernik
Josh is an economics and policy grad from UC Berkeley driven by a vision of distributed, clean, and resilient infrastructure that serves as the backbone for the broader energy transition. Focused on developing and deploying clean energy projects, Josh is dedicated to working on grid scale solutions that accelerate our renewable energy future. Outside of work, he loves skiing and being in the mountains.
Zach Woogen
Zach is deep in the clean transportation and energy game, figuring out how all vehicles, from buses and trucks to boats and snowmobiles, can do more than just drive – like maybe help power a clean, just, and radically affordable electricity system. He spends his time thinking and working with the folks that set public policy to create a more climate-friendly future for all. He studied Environmental Economics and Policy at UC Berkeley and has been nerding out about sustainability across mobility, energy, waste management, food systems, and education for about 15 years.
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