| Name | Campus | Department (or Major for students) | Position | Why I support the divestment memorial | |
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| McClure, Ashley | N/A | none | Community member (no relationship with UC) | for health! | View |
| Metcalf, Kevin | UC San Francisco | Anatomy | Student/Postdoc | For a healthy planet! | View |
| Lisovsky, Karl | UC Los Angeles | Writing Programs | Faculty | For "our children's children's children" (as the Moody Blues so eloquently put it). | View |
| Martin, Michael | UC San Francisco | Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics | Faculty | Every person and every organization needs to do everything possible to avoid catastrophic effects from climate change. This divestment is consistent with that approach. | View |
| BezansonPhD, David | UC San Francisco | Division of General Internal Medicine | Staff | Environmental and public health for current and future generations of all species. There are thousands of investments that are fossil free and have comparable profit potential, e.g. renewables. | View |
| Paez, Alicia | UC Santa Cruz | Environmental science | Student/Postdoc | Enviro major | View |
| Schwindt, Sebastian | UC Davis | Land, Air and Water Resources | Student/Postdoc | Energy production without the release of fixed carbon is possible. Universities have the necessary expertise, resources and should pioneer with good example. | View |
| Golden, KC | UC Berkeley | Social Science field major | Alumnus | Either the fossil fuel industry emails profitable or humanity preserves some meaningful chance of a decent future. Not both. UC must get onside with the latter
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| Penilla, Carlos | UC San Francisco | Pediatrics | Student/Postdoc | Divestment will help deal with climate change. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Newman, Thomas | UC San Diego | School of Medicine, 1980 | Alumnus | Divesting is the morally and financially sound choice. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Frank, David John | UC Irvine | Sociology | Faculty | Climate change. | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Picker, Jake | UC Santa Barbara | Feminist studies | Alumnus | Climate change is going to be a literal apocalypse. Time to make big changes yesterday | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Longo, Marjorie | UC Davis | Chemical engineering | Faculty | Climate change and pollution concerns | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Williams, Christian | UC Riverside | Mathematics | Student/Postdoc | California should be leading. | 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 |
| Paulson, Suzanne | UC Los Angeles | Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences | Faculty | Burning fossil fuels has substantial negative impacts on both climate and air pollution | View |
| O'Connell, Ryan | UC San Diego | Moores cancer center | Staff | better for the environment | View |
| Primack, Joel | UC Santa Cruz | Physics | Faculty | Better for Earth's future, and a better investment strategy | View |
| Ranft, Alexandra | UC San Diego | Environmental policy | Student/Postdoc | Because we need to move away from our reliance on fossil fuels | 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 |
| Pollock, Mica | UC San Diego | Education Studies | Faculty | Because UCSD seeks to understand and protect the planet. | View |
| Plann, Susan | UC Los Angeles | Chican@ Studies | Faculty | Because this is the only planet we have to live on. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Anderson, Qin-Hong | UC San Diego | Chinese Studies | Faculty | because our time is running out. | 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 |
| 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 |
| Jhala, Ranjit | UC San Diego | CSE | Faculty | Because its high time the UC put its money behind better causes. | View |