Bio:
Before founding Climate Resolve, Jonathan Parfrey served as a commissioner at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (2008-2013). Jonathan is a member of the LA28 Olympics and Paralympic Games Sustainability Working Group. He is a founder and board member of CicLAvia, the popular street event, as well as a founder of the statewide Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation. He served as director of the GREEN LA Coalition (2007-2011) and as the Los Angeles director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility (1994 to 2007). Prior to that, Jonathan founded and directed the Orange County Catholic Worker (1987-1993).
In 1992, Jonathan received the Paul S. Delp Award for Outstanding Service, Peace, and Social Justice. He was awarded a Durfee Foundation Fellowship (2002), and a Durfee Stanton Fellowship (2010). He is a gubernatorial appointee to the State of California Climate Adaptation Technical Advisory Council (from 2016 to present); a member of the board of directors to the Climate & Wildfire Institute; an advisory board member to the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation; an advisory board member to Water Education for Latino Leaders (WELL) and an advisory board member to the California Department of Insurance California Organized Investment Network (COIN).
In 2003, Jonathan was appointed to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Environmental Policy Team in 2003. In April 2016, he received the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair’s Green Leadership Award.