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Need help with a sustainability or social impact project in your community? Apply to receive support from a Fellow!
Our CivicSpark Fellows have been very active, enthusiastic, and engaged with our staff and have been a pleasure to work with. Their outreach work and communication has been wonderful.
Stephan Schmidt, County of San Luis Obispo
CivicSpark Project Partner
CivicSpark has been invaluable to the successful launch of our building energy transparency requirement. Collaboration of the CivicSpark Bay Area team has enriched our program new perspectives and best practices from other cities. It has been a great experience for all involved.
Billi Romain
Sustainability Program Manager, City of Berkeley
CivicSpark has been an invaluable resource to the County of Santa Barbara, and we’re still experiencing the benefits. Once our ECAP was adopted and the rubber hit the road, our CivicSpark Fellow was able to take on a crucial role in coordinating implementation, and monitoring and reporting.
Marisa Hanson, Santa Barbara County EmPower Central Coast Program
CivicSpark Project Partner
The fellows have been great to work with and I am confident they have great careers ahead of them. The work they are doing for us and the cities of the region is invaluable.
Grieg Asher, Southern California Association of Governments
CivicSpark Project Partner
CivicSpark gave me incredible opportunities to build my professional skills and solidify some of my career goals. The work I accomplished was beyond what I ever imagined I would have the opportunity to do right out of college, and my success with those projects has given me confidence to pursue the next steps in my career.
Rebecca Berg
19-20 & 20-21 Fellow, Central Valley Region
As a recent college graduate at the time, CivicSpark helped launch my career and provided me with an amazing network that I can lean on for support. I wouldn’t be where I am today without CivicSpark.
Linda Vo - Program Manager, California Water Efficiency Partnership
CivicSpar 2017-18 Fellow
CivicSpark has been excellent, because it pairs you with local leaders. It has been a huge professional development experience. It is the ultimate way to dive in head first without hitting your head on the bottom.
Trevor Wilson
2015-16 Fellow, Central Valley Region
This program is providing a lot of value for us. When we are required to address the climate action plans, it is a requirement we can’t implement. This is providing us some real action and support and we are seeing progress.
Noah Smukler
Vice Chair, San Luis Obispo Air Pollution Control District board
Joining CivicSpark gave me the opportunity to gain tangible skills to address not just the theoretical issues of the Valley, but the actual policy needs of communities. It’s allowed me to understand the language that is needed to make change at the local level.
Mitchelle De Leon
2015-16 Fellow, Central Valley Region
CivicSpark allowed me to spend my gap year before going back to school by working directly with the communities I grew up in and advancing the tenets of sustainability, equity, and access to structurally disempowered neighborhoods. It cemented my decision to work within the local and municipal government space and assist local bodies in ensuring they are doing their part to comprehensively and intentionally address climate change on a local and tangible level, whether in the realm of public utilities, housing, or information governance for small businesses.
Marjan Kris - UC Davis School of Law Graduate, 2022
CivicSpark 2018-19 Fellow
CivicSpark Fellows assist in many ways to build local government capacity to respond to pressing community resilience issues.
CivicSpark Fellows focus on a range of climate change, water, housing, and mobility projects. The video to the left shows an example of a project from the 2017-18 cohort year.
