Pacific Environment - Protecting the Living Environment of the Pacific Rim

Fern Uennatornwaranggoon serves as Pacific Environment’s Climate Campaign Director, Ports. Previously, Fern spent the last seven years at Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), where she was advocating on behalf of and in partnership with communities across the U.S. that are directly impacted by port pollution. Before that, Fern worked for the Oakland Mayor’s Office focusing on transportation and infrastructure policy. In addition, she spent five years in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Asia Office where she advanced a multi-country climate resilience initiative in the Asia Pacific. Fern holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford, and a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She lives on unceded Ohlone land (Oakland), California.