Megan Acevedo serves as General Counsel for the Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority and Town Attorney for the Town of San Anselmo. Megan has significant experience advising and representing local public entities concerning a broad range of subjects, including the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), land use, and open meeting law requirements. Megan previously served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Environment Section of the California State Attorney General’s Office. Megan received her J.D. from the UCLA School of Law in 2003 as part of the Public Interest Law and Policy Program. In 1995, Megan received her B.A. in American Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz with highest honors.

Megan Gleason is a 2015 graduate of the University of Oregon, where she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Studies.  Megan interned with Our Children’s Trust during college in our YouCAN program to help pass the successful Eugene Climate Recovery Ordinance. A dedicated environmentalist, Megan has also worked with Food & Water Watch and UO Climate Justice League to organize the UO Take Back the Tap campaign, and interned with the Congressional Research Service in Washington, D.C. to research federal green building programs. Additionally, she wrote her undergraduate thesis on our litigation, entitled  "Atmospheric Trust Litigation:  Prompting Climate Action Through the Courts." Megan brings an analytical and youth perspective to our governance and programming.

Diane Hazen is a licensed clinical social worker, and has worked most recently as Director of Community Partnerships and Care Transitions for PeaceHealth.  She was Director of Medical Social Work at Sacred Heart Medical Center for eleven years. Diane is Past President and has served on the Board of the South Lane Family Relief Nursery for seventeen years.  She is Past President of the Oregon Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare and was the recipient of the organization’s award, “Social Work Administrator of the Year”, for the state of Oregon. Her community memberships include serving on the Healthy Start Community Advisory Board, Lane County Harm Reduction Coalition and Latino Medical Access Coalition. She also worked on policy and legislative issues while serving on PeaceHealth’s Government Relations Task Force. Diane has presented nationally on topics addressing how to create collaborative community forums to effect change and improve health care across the continuum.

Patrick McGinley is a graduate of Dickinson College and Duke University School of Law. He was law clerk for Justice Thomas W. Pomeroy Jr. of Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court. McGinley served as Special Asst. Attorney General, Pennsylvania Environmental Strike Force.  He is the Charles H. Haden II Professor of Law at West Virginia University where he teaches environmental, administrative, and natural resources law. Professor McGinley was co-editor of Coal Law & Regulation andthe Eastern Mineral Law Foundation’s Annual Proceedings. He has served as Chair, ALI-ABA Course of Study: Legal Issues in the Coal Industry; Chair, Assn. of American Law Schools, Environmental Law Section; member Advisory Board, W. Va, Department of Energy; member, W.Va. Governor’s Independent Investigation Panels of Sago and Upper Big Branch Mine Disasters. He is a member of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, a global network of human rights and environmental advocates. The Environmental Policy Institute has recognized him for Atireless  efforts to promote and uphold the rights of the land, the people of America's coalfields and the law protecting them" and by the Public Justice Foundation for Awinning exceptional victories for the public interest. For more than three and a half decades Professor McGinley has represented and counseled Appalachian rural families and communities seeking to vindicate their rights to a healthy and safe environment.

Jim Miller is CEO of RxMapper, a precision drug information platform that enables health insurance providers, health care professionals, PBMs and patients to quickly and accurately make safe and effective drug decisions that are tailored to the unique DNA of each individual patient. RxMapper was developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic and exclusively licensed from Mayo Clinic. Jim is a serial entrepreneur with over twenty-five (25) years of founding and leading a succession of companies: Matrix Communications (1991-2000); Tenor Communications (2000-2007); Online Convergence (2007-2016); and 1588 Advisors (2016-present). Jim donates a considerable amount of his time and resources to improving the educational opportunities of poor and at-risk children and advocating for solutions to the problem of global climate change. Jim is on the Board of Directors of Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, where he works with renowned Climate Scientist Dr. Jim Hansen to advocate for a market driven, carbon-fee and dividend approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions; on the Board of Directors of Our Children’s Trust, where he supports OCT’s Atmospheric Trust Litigation; and is the author of the Clean Energy and Shared Prosperity Act. Jim is a member of Boston College’s Board of Regents; was a founding trustee of the Boston College Lab School at St. Columbkille; and previously served under Peter Lynch as Vice President and trustee of Boston’s Inner-City Scholarship Fund and the Catholic Schools Foundation. Jim lives in the Boston area with his wife and their three children.

Julia Olson graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1993 with a B.A. in International Affairs and from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, with a J.D. in 1997. Julia worked for 15 years representing grassroots conservation groups in the West. She helped protect rivers, forests, parks, wilderness, wildlife, organic agriculture and human health. After becoming a mother, and realizing the greatest threat to her children and children everywhere was climate change, she began focusing her work in that field and founded Our Children's Trust. Her work has led her to the intersection of human rights and environmental protection and she is passionate about working for youth. Julia also teaches environmental courses as an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon School of Law. To rejuvenate, Julia loves being high up in the mountains with her family and her dog or playing tunes on her ukulele with friends. 

Lisa Patel is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford School of Medicine. She received her Master’s in Environmental Sciences from the Yale School of the Environment, her medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and completed her training in pediatrics at UCSF. She is a former Presidential Management Fellow for the Environmental Protection Agency where she coordinated the US Government’s efforts on clean air and safe drinking water projects in South Asia in collaboration with the World Health Organization. She is a faculty mentor for the Stanford Climate and Health group and mentors projects on climate-resilient schools, environmental justice, sustainable healthcare, and medical education curriculum reform. She is a member of the Executive Committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change and the Deputy Executive Director for the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.

Chris Winter is the Executive Director of Access Fund, a national non-profit organization that keeps climbing areas open and protected. Chris is a passionate climber, conservationist, and environmental attorney with over 2 decades of experience working to protect public lands for outdoor recreation and conservation. Prior to joining the Access Fund, Chris helped to launch atmospheric trust litigation in Oregon, defeat offshore drilling proposals in the U.S. Arctic, and fight fossil fuel export terminals in the Columbia River basin. He also has several years of experience as an adjunct professor of law and has served on the board of several conservation, recreation and social justice organizations.