Our Team
Laura Berry
Director
Laura Berry is a climate justice advocate and independent researcher working at the intersections of democratic engagement and the Climate Emergency movement. She brings over a decade of experience in climate advocacy, organizing, and policy to the work of People’s Voice on Climate, and served as a Monitoring Team member and lead advisor to PVOC during the Washington State Climate Assembly before taking on the Director role. Laura holds a MS in Global Environment, Politics and Society from the University of Edinburgh and a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic.
Barbara Lewy
Core Team
Barbara spent her career in public sector administration. In retirement, she has focused on climate change activism, working closely with 350 Seattle. Barbara has been part of powerful climate advocacy and has observed how it often inspires equally powerful resistance. She sees Climate Assemblies as a way to break the stand off, and is pleased to be leveraging her experience with governmental processes to move them forward.
John Cambalik
Core Team
In his professional life, John coordinates a bottoms-up and inclusive organization whose members work collaboratively to protect and restore the North Olympic Peninsula ecosystem along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, a part of the Salish Sea. In his private life, John volunteers for two organizations: Olympic Climate Action as a Board member, and People’s Voice on Climate. He also is a Climate Reality Project Leader. When not working or volunteering, John enjoys biking, kayaking, camping, backpacking, hiking, and gardening.
Johanna Lundahl
Core Team
Johanna is a deliberative democracy advocate and writer living on traditional Duwamish Land in Seattle, WA. She has a bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Washington, with a minor in International Studies. With People’s Voice on Climate, she works to support the expansion of democratic methods within the political sphere, taking inspiration from a background in Food Justice activism.
Ed Chadd
Core Team
Ed is a retired environmental scientist and educator who coordinated the Streamkeepers community-science program on the Olympic Peninsula. Prior to that, he was a high-school English and social studies teacher, Peace Corps volunteer, and Outward Bound instructor with at-risk youth. Community engagement goes back in his family to the anti-Czarist movement of the early 1900s.
Jason Stephens
Core Team
Jason’s roots are in a coastal forest in central California but have grown further and deeper into the lands of the PNW, particularly the forests of the Olympic Peninsula. In addition to People’s Voice on Climate, Jason gratefully volunteers his time to raising his six year-old daughter and participating in the Seattle chapter of the Extinction Rebellion, which has as its third demand the convening of a Climate Assembly. Jason believes climate assemblies have the potential to transform how humans approach mitigating the climate emergency.
Ken Wiersema
Core Team
Ken committed over 50 years to studying birds, and protecting their environment to sustain and restore breeding and migratory habitats. He dedicates his volunteer time to learning and sharing his knowledge and experience as an instructor and board member at the Dungeness River Audubon Center on the traditional lands of the Jamestown S’Klallam people. He earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering, and a MS in Operations Research.
Sunny Thompson
Core Team
Sunny has lived in the forest at the base of Mt Rainier for 50 years and is the creator of Wellspring Spa and Woodland Retreat. She is one of the founding members of Conscious Elders Network and active in the Climate Reality Project. Sunny is passionately supportive of any and all efforts to turn our country’s policies to protecting the earth.