Fern Uennatornwaranggoon serves as Pacific Environment’s Climate Campaign Director, Ports. Previously, Fern spent the last seven years at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she was advocating on behalf of and in partnership with communities across the U.S. that are directly impacted by port pollution. Before that, Fern worked for the Oakland Mayor’s Office focusing on transportation and infrastructure policy. In addition, she spent five years in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Asia Office where she advanced a multi-country climate resilience initiative in the Asia Pacific. Fern holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford, and a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives on unceded Ohlone land (Oakland), California.
Teresa Bui leads Pacific Environment’s state climate advocacy efforts, with an initial focus on ship decarbonization and the zero emission transition at ports. Before joining Pacific Environment, Teresa was appointed by California Governor Jerry Brown to serve as Special Advisor to the Director of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). At CalRecycle, she led the development of new recycling initiatives and improvements to existing programs to combat climate change, including helping implement the state’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy. Prior to her tenure at CalRecycle, Teresa spent eight years as an advocate at the environmental nonprofit group Californians Against Waste, where she successfully advocated for the creation of new landmark recycling and waste reduction programs.
Teresa received her B.S. in Environmental Policy Analysis and Planning from the University of California, Davis. She is based in Sacramento, California.
Davina Hurt currently serves as Pacific Environment’s California Climate Policy Director. She is an attorney, former mayor and distinguished public servant dedicated to advancing climate justice, clean air policy, consumer protection and environmental sustainability. Appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom, Davina serves on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and chairs the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD), the nation’s first regional air pollution control agency. She supports California’s EV transition as a public policy board member of Veloz and brings nearly a decade of experience as an elected local official and commissioner.
Appointed by three California Assembly Speakers, she also served for a decade on a Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) board, championing consumer protection and policy reform in the courts. A senior public policy fellow, globally recognized keynote speaker and advocate for transformative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges, she is also deeply committed to nonprofit work, serving on the boards of Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and Santa Clara University’s Government Ethics Council at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. As advisor to the Equity Forward initiative of Silicon Valley Community Foundation and advisory council member of Samaritan House, these latest projects focus on poverty reduction and social equity in the Bay Area.
Davina earned her J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law, graduating with a specialized certificate in international law. During her studies, she served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge James Ware in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She also studied at the International Institute of Human Rights at the University of Strasbourg. Davina holds a B.A. in history and political science, with a minor in biology, from Baylor University. Davina resides in Belmont with her daughter, who attends UC Davis, and their dog, Koda.
With expertise in transportation, energy, waste management, and stationary sources, Davina Hurt is dedicated to addressing environmental and social challenges through equity, innovation, and bold community leadership.
As Pacific Environment’s Federal Policy Director, Climate, Antonio Santos brings over 20 years of federal and state regulatory experience. He spent most of his time with the Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association (MECA), a nonprofit trade association of the world’s leading manufacturers of emission control and efficiency technologies for mobile sources. While at MECA, Antonio served as technical expert, convener, and advisor for industry stakeholders, government agencies, and environmental justice groups on federal and state air quality laws, regulations, and programs. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Systems from Swarthmore College. Antonio is based in Washington, D.C.
Gabby Alvira serves as Pacific Environment’s Program Coordinator, Ports for People, supporting the management of the Ports for People campaign, plus assisting its staff.
Prior to joining Pacific Environment, Gabby worked as an environmental policy AmeriCorps fellow for the San Jose Conservation Corps, where she conducted research and outreach regarding businesses’ compliance with food waste laws. She has also held positions at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Environmental Affairs Board as an environmental policy coordinator and as a sustainable foods chair. Gabby holds a Bachelor of Arts in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Altorice Frazier is a Port Campaigner, Northeast at Pacific Environment. He is visionary leader and co-founder of Parents Engaging Parents Inc. (PEPNJ), a 501(c)(3) organization empowering parents, mobilizing communities, and advancing policy change through a justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) framework. Since founding PEPNJ in 2017, Altorice has championed the organization’s mission to amplify community voices and advocate for critical issues in New Jersey, including education, mental health and environmental justice.
Under his leadership, PEPNJ has achieved key milestones, such as New Jersey’s grief education bill (S3330/A5015), mandating grief education for students in grades 8-12. Collaborating with Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss, Altorice secured bipartisan support for this initiative, equipping students with tools for healthy grief processing and reinforcing holistic education.
Altorice prioritizes environmental justice, focusing on port pollution affecting communities of color. As the Good Jobs Clean Air NJ campaign lead, he advocates for clean air and fair employment near Newark’s airport, targeting pollution from warehouses and Amazon facilities. Beyond PEPNJ, he serves on the boards of KIPP New Jersey, the Anti-Racist Mental Health Alliance of New Jersey (ARMHA-NJ) and Rutger University’s Center For Youth Social Emotional Wellness CYSEW’s Community Advisory Board.
Dawny’all Heydari leads Pacific Environment’s Ship It Zero campaign to move the world’s largest retail companies to achieve zero-emission shipping by 2030.
An accomplished, creative and relentless campaigner, Dawny’all has served in a number of intersectional organizing and campaign roles, including the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign in Iowa, the New Orleans public defender’s office, and global LGBTQ+ rights advocacy at the United Nations headquarters in New York City with OutRight Action International. For the Sanders Campaign for President, Dawny’all led a rural field organizing program that led to Washington County, Iowa caucusing for Senator Sanders by a margin of 8.6% in the 2020 Democratic presidential caucuses. At Yale, Dawny’all led a student advocacy campaign that helped secure passage of a 2015 Connecticut state statute (HB-6844, An Act Concerning In-State Tuition Eligibility) extending undocumented students’ access to public higher education.
Originally from California, Dawny’all was awakened to climate consciousness after being evacuated in a wildfire. She is eager to build collective power to combat environmental racism and classism, restore healthy, long-living port communities and clean oceans, and keep global warming below 1.5°C.
Dawny’all holds a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies and the Multidisciplinary Academic Program in Human Rights from Yale University. She is currently based in Los Angeles, California.
As the State Climate Policy Manager, Jayne Stevenson supports Pacific Environment’s state climate advocacy efforts, with a focus on ship decarbonization and the zero-emission transition at ports. Prior to joining us, Jayne worked as a teaching assistant and student advisor at Stanford University’s Earth Systems Program. She has also held internship positions at the California Energy Commission and the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she researched and wrote reports to support the agenda of the U.S. Clean Air Team, tracked, and documented proceedings on energy issues, plus analyzed air emissions data to assess health and environmental justice issues. Jayne holds a B.S. and an M.S. in earth systems from Stanford University.
Cristhian Tapia-Delgado (he/him) serves as Pacific Environment’s Climate Campaigner, Southern California. Previously, he was a seven-year member and advocate at East Yard Communities for Environment Justice, where he lobbied, organized, and empowered communities that are disproportionately affected by industrial fossil fuel pollution in the Los Angeles/Long Beach community. Additionally, Cristhian served as a campaign coordinator on Kailee Caruso’s 2022 Long Beach City Council campaign, and worked as a case manager at the Law Offices of Larry H. Parker, where he supported with communications and administration, client interviews, and pre-litigation case file development. He holds a dual bachelor’s degree in political science and criminology from the University of California, Irvine. He is based in Long Beach, California.
Jamie Yates serves as Pacific Environment’s Climate and Renewable Energy Analyst. Previously, she worked as a research assistant at the Yale Center for Environmental Justice, where she prepared materials for the Just Energy Transition course, and a student researcher with the Yale School of the Environment Tribal Resources Clinic, where she researched broadband development on tribal lands. Previously, Jamie served both as a research associate and systems engineer at Mission Bio, where she worked for four years on single-cell biology. She also has experience interning with the Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory. Jamie holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental science from University of California, Davis and a master’s degree in environmental management from Yale University School of the Environment. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Ports for People represents local communities, allies and partners in the fight to end port and ship pollution. We are proud to lead this campaign alongside our campaign partners.
We’re launching our campaign in one of the world’s largest port complexes, the San Pedro Bay Port Complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, then expanding northward to the Pacific Northwest ports of Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver, B.C.
Southern California, USA
- Los Angeles, California
- Long Beach, California
Pacific Northwest, USA + Canada
- Seattle, Washington
- Tacoma, Washington
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada
If you don’t see your port on our map, reach out to bring Ports for People to your community.
