Jonathan Parfrey is executive director of Climate Resolve, LA’s climate advocacy organization. In 2013, he recently completed a five-year term as commissioner at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. In 2012-13, Parfrey was a visiting lecturer at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. In 2011, he was appointed a Senior Fellow at the USC Marshall School of Business. Parfrey is immediate past-president of the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters. He is a co-founder (and currently vice-chair) of CicLAvia, the popular street event. He is also a founder of the Los Angeles Regional Collaborative for Climate Action and Sustainability and the statewide Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation. From 2007-2011, Parfrey served as director of the GREEN LA Coalition. From 1994 to 2007, he served as Los Angeles director of Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization, Physicians for Social Responsibility. In 2003, Mr. Parfrey was appointed to Governor Schwarzenegger’s Environmental Policy Team. In 1992, Parfrey received the Paul S. Delp Award for Outstanding Service, Peace and Social Justice. In 2002 he was awarded a Durfee Foundation Fellowship. In 2010, he received a Stanton Fellowship.