CSV is a volunteer-driven organization. Our Advisors' committee forms the core of how we plan our projects and make decisions. The Advisors committee is made up of both experts in the field of climate resilience, climate science, engineering, agriculture, and other areas. We also have dedicated and committed volunteers who make CSV a supportive, inclusive, and successful movement. To learn more and potentially join the Advisors Committee, first join our community here.

A mother of two, Leonora is an experienced nonprofit leader with over five years of experience running multiple nonprofits, including in housing advocacy and democracy reform. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Shift Our Ways Collective, an urban farming and local food initiative. Previously, she was Executive Director of Abundant Housing LA. Living in Santa Monica with her family, she brings a compassionate and community-driven approach to our organization.

Peter was an expert reviewer for the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) fifth climate change assessment (AR5, 2014) and the IPCC’s 2018 Special Report on 1.5ºC. In 2018, he published Unprecedented Crime: Climate Science Denial and Game Changers for Survival, which he co-authored with Elizabeth Woodworth. He is published on climate change, biodiversity, and environmental health.

Peter has been synthesizing global warming and climate change research since 1988. His approach to assessing climate change is based on environmental health and human rights protection. Peter’s mission now is to spread the full truth about the extreme risks and magnitude of the global climate and ocean disruption emergency and the emergency response required.

Peter was a founding director of CAPE (Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) and, more recently, founder of the Climate Emergency Institute. Peter Carter, M.D. currently is a retired family and emergency medicine physician, with a background in environmental health protection policy. .

Jeff Rice lives in Seattle and has served with many Seattle organizations focusing on the Asian American community for many years. He served on the Board of Directors for the Filipino Community of Seattle and helped establish the youth program FilSTAR as well as contributed to the early planning of the Filipino Community Village, a mixed development providing affordable housing to seniors. He then was Treasurer on the Board of Directors for API Chaya Seattle which serves survivors of sexual violence, human trafficking, and domestic violence within the Pacific Islander, Native Hawaiian, Asian, and South Asian communities. He has pivoted his time and efforts towards understanding how climate change may impact global supply chains and connecting with groups to implement resilience within local communities. As part of Climate Safe Villages, he is actively involved with planning towards launching a site in Bellingham, WA. His hobbies include backyard farming, guerrilla-gardening, learning appliance repair, reading, learning DIY skills, and taking his kids to various sports activities.
He currently works at Amazon as a Sr Manager and previously worked at Starbucks.

Benjamin is a lifelong learner with background in Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering focused on emerging technologies including renewables, decarbonization, energy efficiency and storage. With experience from working for a utility company, solar PV construction and as an independent contractor to a non-profit organization helping oil and gas workers looking to transition into renewables space, he is committed to initiatives that promote sustainability, drive innovation, and advocate for the collective well-being of our planet and humanity. By reimagining the integration of clean energy solutions within our built environment, he envisions a future defined by energy efficiency, sufficiency, and environmental harmony.

Tim Ely is a volunteer Community Lead with Climate Safe Villages. He is also co-leader of the St. Louis area chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonpartisan group which champions legislation to fight climate change. Tim received his Bachelor’s of Science degree in Computer Science from Purdue University, and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis. When he’s not taking part in climate activism, Tim works as a cybersecurity engineer at a medical device company.

Dr Isaac Jamieson, is a UK scientist, architect, environmental consultant and co-founder of BioSustainable Designs. He also lectures at Thammasat University in Thailand on subjects that cover issues related to innovation, urban design, building design, product design, biophilic design, urban agriculture, resilience, and sustainability. Much of his work focuses on how to create more biologically-friendly environments that help increase health, wellbeing and productivity.