Kara Fleisher — Business Manager, Project Accountant About Kara — Kara has been Berkeley Air’s Business Manager since 2016. during which time she has distributed more than 57,000,000 cute animal videos and at least 3 podcasts about true crime or hard science fiction throughout the company. She is a Bay Area native, and holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from San…
Ricardo Piedrahita, Ph.D — Senior Research Associate About Ricardo — Ricardo is a senior research associate with Berkeley Air Monitoring Group, having joined in early 2017. His primary research interests are cookstoves and household energy use in the developing world, low-cost air quality monitoring, and pollution exposure assessment and modeling. His dissertation research was part of REACCTING, a project in…
Kirstie Jagoe, MSc. — Project Manager About Kirstie — Kirstie Jagoe MSc. is a Project Manager at Berkeley Air Monitoring Group. Her 15 years of experience within the household energy sector has focused on measuring the effects and impacts of interventions that aim to promote clean and efficient energy options in biomass dependant populations. Kirstie has extensive experience in study design,…
Michael Johnson, Ph.D — Technical Director About Michael — Michael has worked extensively on field-based methodologies to quantify greenhouse gas reductions achieved by improved stove projects, with an emphasis on monitoring instrumentation and study design. He has conducted stove emissions monitoring in Mexico, El Salvador, Kenya, and India, and worked on several air pollution studies, including exposure assessments of biomass stove…
Dana Charron, M.B.A. — Managing Director, Cofounder About Dana — Dana has been privileged to be a leader in the clean cooking sector since 2001. She began by building the Household Energy and Health program at the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD) at the University of California, Berkeley, which was a partner on the first cookstove…
David Pennise, Ph.D. — Senior Scientist, Cofounder About David — David co-founded and helped grow Berkeley Air, in line with his commitment to create a sustainable, healthy world. He manages the technical activities of the company and leads the service delivery team in providing monitoring and evaluation services and tools. He has conducted and managed air pollution research, carbon monitoring…