Ann comes to Rogue Climate with many years of experience in non-profit operations including Josephine County 4-H Leaders Association, 32 years as the treasurer of the Grants Pass Rotary Club, Grants Pass Museum of Art, and many other organizations. Ann is a graduate of the University of California, Davis, with a business degree. She brings with her a love for nature and animals. Leisure time is spent traveling the world and working with her many animals on her hobby farm. Ann is the operations director for Rogue Climate, overseeing finances and grants as well as HR.

Blanca works to build leadership with the Latinx community in the Valley. Raised in Southern Oregon she grew up with a loving family who worked hard as farmworkers and in warehouses for little pay. After earning a bachelor’s in English Literature and Ethnic studies at Willamette University Blanca served as an AmeriCorps member in San Jose in 2014 and 2015. Working with families forced to sleep in garages due to inflated rent rates and underpaying jobs reignited her passion for economic and racial justice. While living in Portland, Blanca served families through free after school programming and organized with low-income folks and people of color who continue to bear the brunt of climate chaos, the housing crisis, and more. You can reach Blanca at Blanca@RogueClimate.org

CJess works with Rogue Climate’s South Coast and Rogue Valley teams to build community power through transformative climate justice campaigns. After leading a winning campaign for fossil fuel divestment at Pitzer College, she organized for a just transition in Philadelphia and co-founded the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network, where she served as the Director of Training.  Jess went on to co-create PeoplesHub, an online social movement school and continues to facilitate movement groups on strategy, culture, and conflict. When she joined the Rogue Climate team in 2021 as the South Coast Energy Justice Organizer, she worked with South Coast communities and partners across the state to win the Oregon Clean Energy Opportunity Campaign, pass the Oregon Heat Relief package and more. In her current role as Organizing Director she coordinates campaigns across regions and works with the organizing team to build systems for sustainable community power. Jess has a BA in Environmental Policy from Pitzer College and is a recipient of the Udall Scholarship and the Brower Youth Award in recognition of her leadership in the youth climate justice movement. When she’s not organizing, Jess can be found swimming in Oregon rivers, making ceramics, and camping with her partner and their pup Lola. You can reach Jess at Jess@RogueClimate.org.

As an organizer, Maroun is committed to mobilizing collective power for climate justice, with the long-term goal of assisting Latino/a/x communities in climate disaster recovery and resiliency. Maroun graduated in 2023 with a double major in Sociology & Anthropology and International Studies. He began his journey as a research assistant, supporting in-depth interviews with Latino/a/x members impacted by the Almeda Fire for a study focused on post-fire health impacts on 55+ individuals. Additionally in this role, Maroun facilitated a study group for immigrants in the Rogue Valley hoping to take the U.S. Naturalization Test. In his free time, Maroun loves to make music, practice Muay Thai & Jiu Jitsu, and go to the Illinois River! You can reach Maroun at Maroun@RogueClimate.org.

Susie coordinates and organizes teams, projects and events that grow the climate justice movement in Southern Oregon, with emphasis on racial equity and inclusion. Raised in a diverse Los Angeles community, she developed an interest in social justice and organizing. After graduating from CSULA with a bachelors in Psychology, she moved to Oregon where she spent a couple decades working in the fields of education and social services. Work areas of strength include data systems management, volunteer coordination and community building. She enjoys fulfilling the organizational goal to lead regenerative work, not extractive, by creating spaces for joy and celebration. During her spare time, she likes volunteering with local organizations that focus on empowering vulnerable populations who are disproportionately affected by climate change. You can reach Susie at Susie@RogueClimate.org

Alessandra is now on the board after previously leading Rogue Climate’s work transforming energy systems to benefit communities most impacted by climate change. She was born and raised in the Bay Area, CA where she first became concerned with the intersections of environment, public health, and racism. Alessandra graduated from Southern Oregon University with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology and previously organized a food insecurity campaign at SOU and later worked as a Community Organizer focusing on immigrant justice at the Rogue Valley chapter of Unite Oregon. Alessandra serves as a member of the Seeding Justice Foundation Grant Making Committee and the Southern Oregon Latino Partnership Program.

Alison is a writer and theater producer who tries to make our world better. For 15 years, she was director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s American Revolutions: the United States History Cycle, a multi-decade program of commissioning and developing 37 new plays about moments of change in American history, including Sweat by Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama) and All the Way by Robert Schenkkan (Tony Winner for Best Play). Carey is co-founder of the nationally acclaimed Cornerstone Theater Company, which collaborates with communities across the nation to tell their stories, and her work has been produced at venues such as Arena Stage, the Public Theater, the Mark Taper Forum, the shuttered mother plant of Bethlehem Steel, and a dirt-floor cattle sale barn.

David’s experience in advocacy and community engagement includes working with various non-profit community-based organizations. He has worked with Unete, Unite Oregon and Rogue Climate supporting the Latino/a/x community, those affected by the Rogue Valley wildfires in 2020, as well as helping coordinate community driven vaccine events with the Oregon Health Authority. He has also served as a COVID-19 case investigator for Jackson County Public Health during the peak of the pandemic. David graduated from Southern Oregon University in 2020 and holds a bachelor’s degree in human services. He also volunteers on the board of Oregon Spinal Cord Injury Connection . When not working, David loves to travel internationally, spend time outdoors in the pursuit of wild game, and if successful, preparing a meal for friends and family with his fresh catch/harvest.

Isabella Lee Tibbets is indigenous Quechua from Ecuador and the new board president after taking a two year leave from the organization where she was a No Pipeline Fellow. Despite being born in Ecuador, growing up in the Rogue Valley kept her connected to the nature around and drove her passion for protecting the environment and communities. Having international climate experience from attending COP25 in Madrid in 2019 was important in showing the connection between communities near and far with the struggles that people are facing when it comes to the effects of climate change. She is an activist, mother, artist, and community organizer with a wide range of passions including the environment, social justice, indigenous rights, and politics. She works for Southern Oregon Climate Action Now (SOCAN) as their Development Associate in charge of fundraising and donor relations. When she is not busy with her many community activities and work, she is busy taking care of her two young boys and spending time outside with them and their family puppy.