CSSC hires a limited number of staff and interns. Current interns work on Fossil Free, Students Against Fracking, and an array of other programs. Are you interested in an intern position? Contact [email protected].

Staff

Zen Trenholm, Development Director

Zen helps identify and secure resources for CSSC campaigns, programs, and operations and manages the organization’s finances and legal responsibilities. He also serves as a board member with the Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive. He was previously a board member with the Berkeley Student Food Collective, a co-founder of the UC Berkeley Student Environmental Resource Center, and has worked at SkyDeck | Berkeley, UC Berkeley’s startup accelerator program.

He is proud to work with an amazing community of dedicated, intelligent, and passionate students in tackling some of our planet’s most pressing challenges.

SCHOOL: B.S. UC Berkeley, 2013
PAST ROLES IN CSSC: Council Member, Board Member, Chapter President, Convergence Coordinator, Development Committee Chair, and Treasurer/Project Director.
MAJOR: Conservation and Resource Studies: Cooperative Business Development
HOMETOWN: San Francisco, CA
CONTACT: [email protected]

Emily Williams, Fossil Free Campaign Director

Emily Williams is a Campaign Director with CSSC. Her primary focus as Campaign Director is in providing students support in their Fossil Free campaigns. She is an alumna of UCSB, with a B.S. in Environmental Studies, and concentration in Geographic Information Systems. While at UCSB, she was the coordinator for the Fossil Free campaign from 2012-2013, and wrote her thesis on quantifying the external costs associated with the coal industry. Her interests lie in global carbon budgets and the impact of international climate policy on adaption and mitigation. She has become involved in the COP process; she attended COP 19 in Warsaw with the International Institute of Climate Action and Theory, and is set to attend COP 20 with SustainUS in Lima and COP 21 in Paris.

SCHOOL: B.S. UC Santa Barbara, 2013
PAST ROLES IN CSSC: Council Member, Op Team Member, Campus Campaign Coordinator for Fossil Free.
MAJOR: Environmental Sciences
HOMETOWN: Cupertino, CA
CONTACT: [email protected]

Shoshanna Howard, Students Against Fracking Campaign Director

Shoshanna, a University of Colorado at Boulder graduate, has been working in the field of social and climate justice for the last 5 years. Having lived and worked aboard in numerous countries, Shoshanna brings a unique perspective to climate justice that unites action, passion and “big-picture” vision. In her last position, Shoshanna organized college students across the US and Canada around social justice issues facing Israel/Palestine and has been an organizer for worker and immigrant rights in the Bay Area. She has spent the last year working on anti-fracking and no tar sands in the local area and is seeking to expand the movement by inspiring and empowering student leaders. Shoshanna is also a yoga teacher, mountaineer, and always up for a good laugh.

SCHOOL: University of Colorado Boulder, 2007
PAST ROLES IN CSSC: Consultant, SOP Program.
HOMETOWN: Boulder, Colorado
CONTACT: [email protected]

Interns

Jacob Soiffer, Fossil Free UC Field Organizer

Jake is a second-year student at UC Berkeley working with the Fossil Free UC campaign on actions/events, coalition-building, and on-campus engagement. Born in bred in Brooklyn, New York, Jake was radicalized and introduced to social justice organizing by Occupy Wall Street, walking the five blocks down to Zuccotti Park many afternoons as a high school sophomore. He has also worked with Amnesty International, 350.org, and the direct action groups Queer Rising and 99Rise in New York, and is passionate about connecting struggles and engaging in direct action as we work together to build a just future. Jake also writes poetry, plays jazz drums, and needs more road-trips in his life!
SCHOOL: UC Berkeley
PAST ROLES IN CSSC: Intern, Spring 2014
MAJOR: Sociology
HOMETOWN: Brooklyn, New York
CONTACT: [email protected]

Silver Hannon, Fossil Free UC Field Organizer

Silver, a recent UC Berkeley alumna with a degree in English, began environmental work serendipitously by grabbing a needed unit from a student-run course on the environmental community at Cal. From there, her interests were quickly sparked by the fossil fuel divestment campaign on campus. The very tangible change-making power it holds and the commitment to solidarity with both environmental and social justice causes it is grounded in makes the work exciting and meaningful. She dedicated her remaining time at UC Berkeley to recruitment, team building, actions planning, and communications work on the Fossil Free Cal campaign. Her current position as a Fossil Free UC Field Organizer focuses on media, messaging and campaign narrative coordination, along with recruitment and team-building support for campuses.

Alyssa Lee, Statewide Divestment Field Organizer

Arlo Bender-Simon, Students Against Fracking Field Organizer

Kristy Drutman, Students Against Fracking Field Organizer

Kristy is an undergraduate studying Society and the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley. She became involved with CSSC her freshman year when she attended her first fall convergence and fell in love with the organization. Passionate about environmental justice as well as student mobilization, Kristy became actively involved with Students Against Fracking on the UC Berkeley campus. To expand her leadership and immersion in this work, she now serves as a statewide field organizer for CSSC’s Students Against Fracking campaign. She is now working on establishing Students Against Fracking chapters across the state and actively building strategies with SAF’s new campaign director.