Gabriel Pacyniak (PI) is an Associate Professor at the UNM School of Law. Gabe’s scholarship and policy work focuses on climate change and energy issues, with a focus on equity. He also is a co-supervisor of the School’s Natural Resources and Environmental Law (NREL) clinic, which provides law and policy representation to low-income and underserved communities on a broad range of NREL issues. He also serves as a co-convenor of UNM’s Just Transition to Green Energy Grand Challenge initiative.

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Shannon Sanchez-Youngman (co-PI), is an Assistant Professor, at the UNM-HSC College of Population Health. Shannon is a community based participatory researcher with expertise in Latino mental health disparities intervention research and health equity policy. She has over 20 years of experience developing community health interventions aimed at reducing social and health disparities among economically marginalized groups and racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Dr. Sanchez-Youngman seeks to bridge the gap between social science theories and methods with multi-level health intervention research.

Gabriel R. Sanchez, is a professor of Political Science and the Founding Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Policy at the University of New Mexico. He is also the Executive Director of the UNM Center for Social Policy, and a founding member of the UNM Native American Budget and Policy Institute. Dr. Sanchez is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Dr. Sanchez is also the vice president of research at BSP Research, a leading survey firm focused on the Latino electorate. A leading expert on Latino and New Mexico politics and policy, he regularly provides political commentary to several state, national, and international media outlets including the New York Times, CNN, Los Angeles Times, and the Economist. Dr. Sanchez is a nationally recognized expert in survey research and the utilization of rigorous research to inform public policy decisions at the federal, state, and local levels.

Robert G. DelCampo, serves in multiple roles at the University of New Mexico (UNM), where he currently holds pivotal roles as the Rutledge Professor of Management, Sr. Executive Director of Corporate & Community Engagement and the Executive Director of the Innovation Academy. His roots in Las Cruces, coupled with an academic journey that traversed UNM and culminated in a Ph.D. from the esteemed W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, underscore his deep commitment to education and community development.