ABOUT

Alma is a Korean American lawyer, dancer, and surfer seeking to inspire others to take action to end the climate crisis and reverse global warming. Alma’s climate work began with Sustaining All Life and United to End Racism (also known as SAL/UER). Since 2020, Alma has been serving as Climate Justice Co-Chair of the Climate Reality Project Bay Area Chapter, and in her trusts and estates law practice, she gives presentations for other professional advisors on Land Back to Indigenous Communities.

Pia Cortez is a storyteller at heart: swimming in the worlds of communications, public relations and marketing. Half the time she's underwater--she is a certified Molchanovs freediver, a licensed PADI scuba diver and lifelong conservationist. Her work revolves around creating stories and campaigns around art, movement, literature and climate, and she lives between the Bay Area and Bohol, Philippines. When she's above surface, she writes book reviews and dotes on her corgi Boogie.

Based in the SF Bay Area, Wency Shaida is a development and marketing professional that finds fulfillment engaging with organizations that drive positive change in our world. She loves the natural beauty of the area she calls home, and came to Climate Hope as a way to positively channel her concerns over the climate crisis into actionable change. 

Stephanie Weiner is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, but currently lives in San Diego.  She has a degree in Environmental Studies (with an emphasis in Marine Science) from UC Santa Barbara. Stephanie is a classroom teacher who teaches middle school and high school science. She joined the fight for the climate after becoming a trained Climate Reality Leader in 2020. She has worked in a broad range of environments - from studying sharks on a boat in San Francisco Bay to living in community in the Redwood forests of Sonoma County.