Who We Are

The EcoBlock team consists of professionals, city government, academics, and national lab researchers committed to partnering with neighborhoods in their transformation to resilient, low-carbon communities.

Richard Brown

Academic Researcher, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

Martin Morehouse

Estimator & Project Developer, Sun Light & Power (SLP)

Steve Meyer

Senior Project Manager, Sun Light & Power (SLP)

Blake Gleason

Director of Innovation & Technical Excellence, Sun Light & Power (SLP)

Keith O'Hara

President, Eco Performance Builders

Denise Vera

Project Management Specialist, Eco Performance Builders

Kyle Bosworth

Senior Building Scientist, Eco Performance Builders

suzi marzuola

Principal, Siegel & Strain Architects

Laura Levenberg

Architect, Siegel & Strain Architects

Ege Yener

Architectural Designer, Siegel & Strain Architects

Harrison Fraker

Senior Advisor

Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Urban Design, UC Berkeley

amy dryden

Director of Strategic Innovations, Association for Energy Affordability (AEA)

Abby Jensen

Project Design and Management, Eco Performance Builders

Tim Lipman

Co-Director, Transportation Studies Research Center
Research Affiliate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sandy Robertson

Senior Research Engineer (retired), Stanford University

Craig Boman

Design Engineer, Sherwood Design Engineers

Kate Ringness

Senior Advisor

Founder & Principal, Delta Arc Strategies

Cathy Leonard

Executive Director, Oakland Neighborhoods for Equity

Christine Scott Thomson

Principal Planner, City of Orinda

daniel hamilton

Chief Resilience Officer, City of Oakland 

Shayna H. Hirshfield-Gold

Acting Sustainability Director, City of Oakland 

Melanie Colburn

Senior Lead, Neighborhood Decarbonization Strategy, City of Oakland 

Kiran Jain

EcoBlock General Counsel

Founder, Civic Design Lab

Therese Tuttle

Principal Attorney & Co-founder, Tuttle Law Group

Paola Eisner

Co-op Attorney, Tuttle Law Group

Ted Lamm

Research Fellow, Climate Program, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment

Project Management

Therese Peffer

Principal Investigator

Associate Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

Carl Blumstein

Director, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

miriam aczel

Research Affiliate, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

Eunice Chung

Research Affiliate, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

Eric Lee

Deputy Director of Finance and Research Support, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

Jing Wu

Design and Content Strategist, California Institute for Energy and Environment, CITRIS Climate initiative

Past Collaborators

Daniel Kammen

Energy

larry strain

Design/Construction

Jon Keim-Shenk

Jon Keim-Shenk

Water

David Warner

Design/Construction

Michael Ginsberg

Business & Finance