| Name | Campus | Department (or Major for students) | Position | Why I support the divestment memorial | |
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| Donjacour, Annemarie | UC San Francisco | Anatomy | Faculty | With climate change becoming more and more evident, costly and painful day by day, our university, the University of California, needs to participate in a just transition away from fossil fuels.! | View |
| Stegman, Dave | UC San Diego | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Faculty | Why continue to concentrate wealth and power into the hands of those who have proven to be irresponsible stewards of our planet? | View |
| Botto, Nina | UC San Francisco | Dermatology | Faculty | Who among us would not!? | View |
| Kellner, Joseph | UC Berkeley | History | Faculty | What choice do we have? If UC Berkeley can't divest, then we're all screwed. | View |
| Nordahl, Thomas | UC Davis | Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences | Faculty | We, the University, can set an example of restricting carbon emissions into the environment. | View |
| Bontempi, Rachel | UC San Diego | Literatures in English | Student/Postdoc | We, as students, have a right to approve of where our money is going. It's 2016, green energy is possible and accessible. It's time we utilized it. | View |
| Skoog, Emma | UC Davis | Center for Comparative Medicine | Student/Postdoc | We who are at the fore front of research and new discoveries should not rely and support old technologies that harm our environment when much better options are available. | View |
| Nesci, Catherine | UC Santa Barbara | French and Italian | Faculty | We should support renewable energy and not those that pollute and endanger our planet, and hurt other people. | View |
| Wladecki, Hannah | UC San Diego | Institute for Genomic Medicine | Staff | We need to stop global warming. This is a step in the right direction. | View |
| Robinson, Kim Stanley | UC San Diego | Literature | Alumnus | We need to make four-fifths of the identified fossil fuels on the planet "stranded assets" by never burning them. This is a good contribution to that crucial action. | View |
| Strings, Sabrina | UC San Diego | Sociology | Faculty | We need to make climate change a priority. | View |
| perlman, janet | UC San Francisco | pediatrics | Faculty | we need to everything we can to support climate change and this is one thing we can do...and there is a whole lot more! | View |
| Benner, Chris | UC Santa Cruz | Environmental Studies and Sociology | Faculty | We need to dramatically reduce our fossil fuel usage, and fast. Lots of international experience with divestment shows that this can be an effective way of contributing to the broader movement. | View |
| Cook, Geoffrey | UC San Diego | SIO | Faculty | We need to be serious about enacting change quickly in our society to deal with immense challenges associated with climate, energy, natural resources and sustainability. I see this as a natural step. | View |
| Weld, Sara Pankenier | UC Santa Barbara | Germanic and Slavic Studies | Faculty | We need climate action now and the UCs and California can and should help show the way. | View |
| Sheehan Orchard, Katharine | UC Santa Cruz | Community Studies | Alumnus | We need a just transition away from a fossil fuel economy to community led solutions to climate change! | View |
| Halifax, Elizabeth | UC San Francisco | Community Health Systems | Staff | We must support action to slow climate change and divestment is one of the most effective ways to show our support for a sustainable future for generations to come. | View |
| Richbourg, Heather | UC San Francisco | Dept of Orthopedic Surgery | Student/Postdoc | We must invest in saving our planet, and there are no excuses for not fully investing our energy need and money in renewable resources. | View |
| Kokinis, Troy | UC San Diego | History | Student/Postdoc | We must fight the neo-liberalization of the university with all of our hearts! | View |
| Hoenicke, Sarah | UC Irvine | Comparative Literature | Student/Postdoc | We must divorce ourselves and our institutions from fossil fuels! | View |
| Hanson, Kristin | UC Berkeley | English | Faculty | We know that extraction and use of fossil fuels is destroying life as we know it on our planet; financial support of either is therefore in conflict with the university's mission "to serve society.." | View |
| Medrano Soto, Luis Arturo | UC San Diego | MolecularBiology | Staff | We have the responsibility to take care of our planet, and fossil fuels are creating havoc. There's a lot more that should be done, but this is a huge step in the right direction. | View |
| Joshi, Ankita | UC Berkeley | Engineering and Public Policy | Student/Postdoc | We cannot wait longer to decarbonize our economy / society. The longer we wait, the more difficult it will get to combat the effects on our communities and our planet. | View |
| Derosier, Kate | UC San Francisco | Neuroscience Graduate Program | Student/Postdoc | We are in a climate emergency and must decarbonize the economy as quickly as possible. If an educated and principled organization like UC doesn't divest, what hope do we have of averting this crisis? | View |
| Margot, Jean-Luc | UC Los Angeles | Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences | Faculty | Urgent action on curbing greenhouse gas emissions is needed. | View |
| Howard, Carin | N/A | none | Community member (no relationship with UC) | Ultimately:Survival of Human Species | View |
| orlofsky, susan | UC San Diego | Family Medicine and Public Health | Staff | UC should be a leader in solving our climate challenges; divesting is a step in the right direction. | View |
| Goldman, Robert | UC Berkeley | DSSEAS | Faculty | UC needs to be a leader in efforts to combat carbon induced climate change. | View |
| Young , Chelsea | UC San Francisco | Psychiatry | Student/Postdoc | UC must be on the right side of history | View |
| Warren, James | UC Los Angeles | Biology | Alumnus | UC is a global leader and mus lead in the climate crisis | View |
| Gruber, Valerie | UC San Francisco | Psychiatry | Faculty | UC and its faculty and staff are committed to health equity. Pollution disproportionately falls on vulnerable communities. Our actions and investments need to be aligned with our values and evidence. | View |
| Rajagopal, Deepak | UC Los Angeles | IoES | Faculty | Today we are not only at a critical juncture environmentally but at unique point in time where renewable energy plus battery storage has become cheaper than fossil fuels in large parts of the US. | View |
| Heifetz, Ruth | UC San Diego | Family Medicine and Public Health | Faculty | To save the planet! The only way we can attempt to diminish the most dangerous impacts of climate change. | View |
| Park, Jae Wan | UC Davis | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | Faculty | to save the earth! | View |
| Chandler, Bailee | UC San Diego | Literature | Student/Postdoc | To save our planet & switch to more ethical forms of energy. | View |
| Das, Sakti | UC Davis | Urology | Faculty | To prevent catastrophic climate change | View |
| Rice, Robert | UC Davis | Environmental Toxicology | Faculty | To help turn the tide of public opinion toward supporting action to lessen climate change | View |
| Jones, David Evan | UC Santa Cruz | Music | Faculty | To counteract global warming | View |
| Teranes, Jane | UC San Diego | Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Faculty | To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to keep the majority of the remaining fossil fuels in the ground. This is the time to divest from fossil fuel companies. | View |
| LONDON, JONATHAN | UC Davis | Human Ecology | Faculty | This is the moral and existential challenge of our time. UC can and should be a leader in this effort. | View |
| Corkran, Stephanie | UC San Diego | Psychiatry | Staff | This is the issue of our time, perhaps of all time. If we do not stop our fossil fuel addiction, now, in order to live, our research, technology, educational achievements mean nothing . | View |
| Gangaram, Balram | UC San Francisco | Pediatrics/genetics | Other | This is something concrete that we can do to help protect our planet. It is awesome to be part of an organization that even thinks about doing something like this! | View |
| Williamson, Bennett | UC Santa Cruz | DANM / AGPM | Staff | This is a simple way for the UC to make a big social and financial statement about its' commitment to environmental justice and the future of our state. | View |
| Hernandez, Leslie | UC Santa Barbara | Global Studies | Student/Postdoc | These corporations don't care that the carbon emissions they produce will continue to harm the environment. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. | View |
| Toor, Navtej | UC San Diego | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Faculty | There is now extensive research (published in prestigious journals such Nature Climate Change) to indicate that fossil fuel investments will become stranded assets due to competing renewable energy. | View |
| Saier, Milton | UC San Diego | MolecularBiology | Faculty | There are strong moral and economic reasons to divest. Morally, we should not be supporting companies that contribute to global warming, and we should invest in companies that will make a profit. | View |
| Zavaleta, Erika | UC Santa Cruz | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Faculty | The University of California system has always been an innovative leader. As the largest university system in the world, its actions like this set an example for others. Time to stop climate change. | View |
| Dyer, Meredith | UC Santa Cruz | History of Art & Visual Culture | Staff | The University of California should not be contributing to global warming! | View |
| Moore, Jim | UC Santa Cruz | Division of Graduate Students | Staff | The University of California is a world leader in innovation and solving global problems, and Global Warming / Anthropogenic Climate Disruption is a problem that needs our innovation and leadership. | View |
| Neelin, David | UC Los Angeles | Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences | Faculty | The University of California has lead the understanding the dangers of climate change for decades. As the need for a solution grows more urgent, it is natural for UC to step up through this action. | View |