Staff, associates & network

STAFF & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATES

Michael R. Eaton, Senior Associate, is Director, Cosumnes and Delta Projects, The Nature Conservancy. Under his direction is the Cosumnes River Preserve, a collaborative effort of the Conservancy and several public agencies, which protects a biologically rich landscape in California's Central Valley. Previously, Eaton was an energy and environmental consultant, Deputy Secretary of the Resources Agency of California, Senior Advisor in the Governor's Office of Planning and Research, and a lobbyist for the Sierra Club. He is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has participated in CIPA projects since the late 1970s.  

Monty Hempel, Senior Associate, is Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of Environmental Programs at the University of Redlands. He was previously on the faculty of Claremont Graduate University. Hempel works on environmental policy, particularly at the international level. His interests include applying the concept of sustainability; global climate change; air quality; linkages among energy, environment, and transportation policy; and protection of coral reef ecosystems. He has participated in CIPA projects since the late 1970s. His publications include Environmental Governance: The Global Challenge. He received a Ph.D. in government from Claremont.

Daniel A. Mazmanian, Senior Associate, is a professor and directs the Judith and John Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California. A political scientist who specializes in environmental policy, he was formerly Dean of the the USC school, Dean of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan, and a faculty member at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. Mazmanian has been actively involved in CIPA projects since the early 1980s. His books include Implementation and Public Policy (with Paul Sabatier) and Beyond Superfailure: America’s Toxics Policy for the 1990s (with David Morell). He holds a doctorate from Washington University, St. Louis.

John Zierold, Senior Associate Emeritus, was the first full-time environmental lobbyist in the United States. As the Sierra Club’s chief representative in Sacramento for two decades, he had a key role in enlarging the California state park system and enacting the state’s pioneering laws in such areas as energy conservation, land use, air and water quality, coastal management, and forestry, many of which influenced legislation at the federal level and in other countries. Zierold, who has thirty years of experience working in Brazil and is fluent in Portuguese, has had major responsibility for CIPA’s cooperative activities in Brazil. A graduate of the University of Minnesota, he has been involved in the Institute’s activities since the early 1970s.

Julie Didion, Publications and Program Coordinator, has been with CIPA since 1993. Didion has edited several CIPA publications and handles marketing and project administration. A graduate of California State University, Sacramento, she is a noted sculptor and active in the arts community in the region.

Rick Caughman, Art Director, is an artist, graphic designer, and marketing consultant based in historic Carriage Alley in Ontario, California. He is a graduate of Art Center College of Design. His commercial practice includes California airport and public transit agencies and companies in the food and computer industries.

NETWORK

Much of CIPA’s work is accomplished through an informal network of advisors, consultants, and cooperating organizations. Examples are given elsewhere in this Web site.  Many of these individuals and groups have been involved in CIPA's activities for many years.

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