Deborah Silvey is a retired community college instructor. As a co-founder of Fossil Free CA in 2015, she is grateful for FFCA's progress toward ending investments in an unjust and destructive fossil fuel economy. She continues to enjoy working with FFCA volunteers and staff and is currently on the Collaborating for Climate Justice Team and the Fundraising Team.

Paula Buel is a retired early childhood teacher and CalSTRS pension-holder. She began visiting CalSTRS board meetings with Fossil Free California in 2019. Inspired by the dedication of youth activists, fellow retirees and union advocates, she has attended more than ten pension board meetings and is currently a member of FFCA’s Collaborating for Climate Justice and Fundraising teams. She advocates for pension fund divestment as a way to empower communities and hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate chaos and ongoing harm.

Diana Curiel is a retired middle school science teacher. She currently volunteers on the Fossil Free CA Union Team and the Collaborating for Climate Justice Team. She has been working with FFCA since retirement in 2019.

Jenn Biehn, an active Fossil Free CA (FFCA) volunteer, was an instructor and administrator at City College of San Francisco from 1977-2011. She mentored and engaged collaborative and inclusive leadership skills and created and taught Women Leaders at Work. As a retiree, she is working with FFCA to divest her CalSTRS pension from fossil fuels.  Jenn helped initiate Collaborating for Climate Justice - one of FFCA’s vibrant volunteer teams. She leads workshops and trains new facilitators in Transforming White Privilege on the Path to Racial Equity within FFCA as well as with Neighbors for Racial Justice in Oakland. Beginning with the Environmental Community at the University of Washington in 1970, Jenn centers her life around co-creating communities of belonging.  Jenn’s spiritual practice includes embracing nature through cross country skiing and backpacking in the High Sierra.   She accompanies younger spiritual seekers on side-by-side solo wilderness retreats, supporting them to overcome their fears of the wild.  She delights in teaching T’ai Chi Chih - Joy through Movement at East Bay Meditation Center and to elders at Dimond Park and through Ashby Village in Oakland.

Jenn’s two page description of Collaborative Leadership has been included in many classes and workshops.