| Name | Campus | Department (or Major for students) | Position | Why I support the divestment memorial | |
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| Holran, Alex | UC Santa Barbara | History/Sociology | Student/Postdoc | As the most influential university system in the country, the University of California needs to put its foot down and oppose the fossil fuel industries and the harm they have caused to the planet. | View |
| Lewis, Leslie | UC San Diego | Urban Studies & Planning | Faculty | BC there is every reason TO divest (equity & justice, greater likelihood of a livable planet for the generations to come, & a blow against the democracy-corroding wealth&power of fossil fuel companies | View |
| Stone, James | N/A | Geography & Political Science | Faculty | Because as David Wallace Wells makes abundantly clear in "The Uninhabitable Earth" we are facing the prospect of a climate catastrophe by the latter half of this century. | View |
| Müller, Ulrich | UC San Diego | Chemistry & Biochemistry | Faculty | Because global warming appears to be the most important threat facing humanity over the next few hundred years. | View |
| Tamacas, Giovanni | UC San Diego | Student | Student/Postdoc | Because I have a conscience. | View |
| Marquie, Jennifer | UC San Diego | Psychiatry | Staff | Because I have children and I want there to be a healthy earth for them and their children. I don't want them to have to think about whether they should bring children into a dying world. | View |
| Quynn, Sydney | UC Santa Cruz | Sociology, Community Studies | Staff | Because it is hypocritical for the UC to fund climate change while proclaiming that it is a proud leader in environmental sustainability. | View |
| Eddebbar, Yassir | UC San Diego | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Student/Postdoc | because it is part of UCSD's mission "to understand and protect the planet". | View |
| Jhala, Ranjit | UC San Diego | CSE | Faculty | Because its high time the UC put its money behind better causes. | View |
| Pereira, Lorraine | UC Berkeley | Public Health | Student/Postdoc | Because my involvement in the fight against climate change shouldn't be limited to mere personal choices such as recycling; systemic change such as divestment + collective action are IMPORTANT! | View |
| wienhausen, gabriele | UC San Diego | Cell & Developmental Biology | Faculty | because now is the time to act to save planet earth for our children and grandchildren. | View |
| Anderson, Qin-Hong | UC San Diego | Chinese Studies | Faculty | because our time is running out. | View |
| Lydick, Natalie | UC San Diego | Literature | Alumnus | Because the UC system produces a wealth of research that shows that fossil fuels are harming our planet. To continue to meddle with them is dishonest to the purpose of the universities. | View |
| Rubiano-Galvis, Sebastián | UC Berkeley | Environmental Science, Policy & Management | Student/Postdoc | Because there is no time - we need to act on climate change now. | View |
| Plann, Susan | UC Los Angeles | Chican@ Studies | Faculty | Because this is the only planet we have to live on. | View |
| Pollock, Mica | UC San Diego | Education Studies | Faculty | Because UCSD seeks to understand and protect the planet. | View |
| Wu, Hannah | UC San Diego | Cognitive Science | Student/Postdoc | Because UCSD should be able to be proud of its sustainability initiative. Because caring for the environment is the future, and innovation is what UCSD should be about. | View |
| Ranft, Alexandra | UC San Diego | Environmental policy | Student/Postdoc | Because we need to move away from our reliance on fossil fuels | View |
| Primack, Joel | UC Santa Cruz | Physics | Faculty | Better for Earth's future, and a better investment strategy | View |
| O'Connell, Ryan | UC San Diego | Moores cancer center | Staff | better for the environment | View |
| Paulson, Suzanne | UC Los Angeles | Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Faculty | Burning fossil fuels has substantial negative impacts on both climate and air pollution | View |
| Parsons, Aaron | UC Berkeley | Astronomy | Faculty | California and the UC system have an opportunity to lead the world in pushing back economically against a system that does not price in the external cost of business as usual. | View |
| Williams, Christian | UC Riverside | Mathematics | Student/Postdoc | California should be leading. | View |
| Johnson, Eric | UC San Diego | History | Student/Postdoc | Carbon based fuels are not sustainable and their consumption in vehicles contribute to the deterioration of human health throughout the world. | View |
| McCalmont, Tim | UC San Francisco | Pathology | Faculty | Climate change and all pollution, including carbon pollution, represents the greatest threat to human existence, and divestment represents a powerful tool for conversion to ecological stability. | View |
| Jauregui, Carolina | UC San Diego | Structural Engineering | Student/Postdoc | Climate change and global warming are dangerous effects that can be mostly attributed to human carbon emissions. It is our responsibility to make the change to move away from fossil fuels. | View |
| Evangelatou, Maria | UC Santa Cruz | History of Art and Visual Culture | Faculty | Climate change and other environmental crises are the biggest threat our planet faces at the moment. We need to take action to reverse the damage we have done before it becomes irreversible. | View |
| Longo, Marjorie | UC Davis | Chemical engineering | Faculty | Climate change and pollution concerns | View |
| Siana, Brian | UC Riverside | Physics and Astronomy | Faculty | Climate change is a global emergency requiring action on many fronts - policy, technology, education. One action is to restrict funds from the entities promoting continued fossil fuel combustion. | View |
| Lee, Geoffrey | UC Berkeley | Philosophy | Faculty | Climate change is a global emergency, and divestment has already proven an effective strategy to weaken corporations invested in the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels. | View |
| Wildberger, Kevin | UC San Diego | Masters in education | Alumnus | Climate change is an emergency. Researchers at UCSD and The Scripps Institute know this very well. Not divesting completely from fossil fuels is hypocrisy, and complacency and what is to come. | View |
| Picker, Jake | UC Santa Barbara | Feminist studies | Alumnus | Climate change is going to be a literal apocalypse. Time to make big changes yesterday | View |
| Colgan, David | UC Los Angeles | Institute of the Environment and Sustainability | Staff | Climate change is happening now and people are dying. We need to respond now, and dramatically. | View |
| Urbanic, James | UC San Diego | Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences | Faculty | Climate change is real and we need to stop supporting energy sources that are contributing to it...... | View |
| Cain, Benjamin | UC Davis | Physics | Other | Climate change is THE crisis of our time and must be addressed. California, and the UC as one of its major institutions should be leading the way. | View |
| DeLay, Brian | UC Berkeley | History | Faculty | Climate change is the great crisis of our time, and UC has an ethical obligation to lead by example. | View |
| Williams, David | UC Santa Barbara | Bren School | Student/Postdoc | Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time. If organisations like UC don't tackle it, then who will? We need to show leadership. | View |
| Pitman, Liam | UC Davis | Environmental Science and Management | Student/Postdoc | Climate change is the issue of our time. The UCs are leading the charge on research, they should lead the charge on action soon. | View |
| Coates, Sarah | UC San Francisco | Dermatology | Other | Climate change is the most important threat to public health in the 21st century, and the university should be doing everything that it can to address this issue by divesting from these companies. | View |
| Laslavic, Kenneth | UC San Francisco | Academic Senate | Staff | Climate change is the most pressing issue of my generation. It is at the intersection of environmental, economic, health, and social justice and demands bold policy solutions. | View |
| Williams, Mary | UC San Francisco | Dermatology and Pediatrics | Faculty | Climate change is the most profound threat of our time to health and well-being. The University, as architect of the future, has a moral obligation to divest. | View |
| Arcilla, Lisa | UC San Francisco | Pediatric Cardiology | Faculty | Climate change is the single most pressing public health emergency for our children. As a pediatric cardiologist and mother, I must do everything I can to advocate for the world children will inherit. | View |
| Frank, David John | UC Irvine | Sociology | Faculty | Climate change. | View |
| Aldinger, Karl | UC San Diego | None | Community member (no relationship with UC) | Climate Crisis affects the youngest generation the most. Our academic institutions have the power to change the direction of our society's fossil fuel usage with how it invests money. | View |
| Renner, Nan | UC San Diego | Birch Aquarium at Scripps | Staff | Climate science points to the need for immediate widespread action to mitigate climate chaos. For the benefit of humanity and all life on our planet, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. Divest now! | View |
| Patel, Serena | UC Berkeley | Energy Engineering | Student/Postdoc | Divesting in fossil fuels can accelerate the uptake of diverse clean energy alternatives and decrease our dependence on fuels that disproportionately harm marginalized communities and people of color. | View |
| Newman, Thomas | UC San Diego | School of Medicine, 1980 | Alumnus | Divesting is the morally and financially sound choice. | View |
| Miller, Elizabeth | UC Davis | English | Faculty | Divestment is an important tool in the transition away from fossil fuels and one of the best ways we as a university community can contribute to decarbonization! | View |
| Aron, Adam | UC San Diego | Psychology | Faculty | Divestment of the UC endowment of fossil fuels will be an important moral victory in keeping with hundreds of other institutions and large cities such as New York | View |
| Penilla, Carlos | UC San Francisco | Pediatrics | Student/Postdoc | Divestment will help deal with climate change. | View |