Karina Garbesi Brief Biography

Karina Garbesi is an Associate Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies at the California State University, East Bay (CSUEB) and affiated faculty of UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group (ERG, UCB) . She has a Bachelor's in Physics from UC Berkeley with High Honors, a Masters and PhD in Energy and Resources also from UCB, and was a US Department of Energy Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has taught almost two dozen different courses on energy and the environment, research and quantitative methods. She has authored many dozens of paper on these subject, and mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students in 12 years of university teaching. Garbesi has served as a public interest consultant on issues of environmental justice, native american renewable energy, climate change, and sustainability. She is a university activist on curriculum, sustainability, and budget transparency, having spearheaded quantititive science GE requirements, initiated a one megawatt solar electric installation at the university, and co-founded and chairs, the Senate Committee on Budget Resources and Assessment (COBRA). She lives in Kensington California in a solar home with her husband, daughter, and cat.