I grew up in Oregon and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area after getting a degree in electrical engineering at Oregon State. I’ve lived in the Bay Area all of my working life and in Mountain View since 2002 and I absolutely love what California and our special region in the bay have to offer. After a successful 30 year career in technology, most recently with Apple, I realized that my passion was not in technology, but in helping my coworkers fix problems and teaching them how to do it themselves. With that insight, I decided to take the risky and unusual leap to step away from my job and find a better way to pursue my passion.
Our golden state continues to endure almost year-round devastating wildfires, increasingly unhealthy air quality, and ongoing drought. California became a climate leader under Governor Schwarzenegger, demonstrating that Republicans have the ideas and political will for climate solutions. Since then, conservatives have ceded most policy direction. But with a market-based, small government, non-regulatory approach to addressing climate risk, we can become a global leader in environmentally effective and economically responsible climate policies.