Amber Laura Hartman, with the Senate Environmental Quality Committee. Hartman received a Ph.D. in biology from The Johns
Hopkins University and a B.S. in biology from Davidson College.
Katharine Moore, with the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee. Moore received a Ph.D. in atmospheric science from
Colorado State University, a M.S. in environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in mechanical
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Maurice Pitesky, with the Senate Energy, Utilities & Communications Committee. Pitesky received his Masters of Preventative Veterinary
Medicine and DVM degrees at UC Davis, a M.S. in agriculture from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and a B.S. in biology from UCLA.
Janice Tsai, with the Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez. Tsai received her Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon
University. Her educational background also includes a Master of Library and Information Science, Rutgers, and a B.A. in mathematical
methods in the social sciences, Northwestern University.
Amber Wright, with the Senate Office of Research. Wright received her Ph.D. in population biology from the University of California,
Davis. She received a M.A. in conservation biology from Columbia University and a B.S. in biological sciences (cum laude) from Cornell
University.
Daniel R. Ballon, with the Assembly Minority Leader/Republican Caucus. Ballon received a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from
the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in molecular biology and biochemistry, Russian language and literature from Wesleyan
University.
Byron Kennedy, with Assemblymember Sandré Swanson. Kennedy received a M.D. and Ph.D. in chronic disease epidemiology, and a
M.P.H. in chronic disease epidemiology from Yale University. He also received a B.S. in biological sciences from California State University,
Sacramento. He has an active medical license in both California and New York.
Igor Lacan, with the Assembly Water, Parks & Wildlife Committee. Lacan received a Ph.D. in urban ecology, a M.S. in aquatic ecology, and
a B.S. in ecology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ryan McCarthy, with Assemblymember Wilmer Amina Carter. McCarthy received his Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from
UC Davis. He received a M.S. in civil and environmental engineering from UC Davis and a B.S. (cum laude) in structural engineering from
UC San Diego.
Jessica Westbrook, with the Assembly Natural Resources Committee. Westbrook received her Ph.D. from the Department of
Horticulture at Cornell University with a minor in plant biology, and a B.S. in plant biology from the University of California, Davis.