Board of Directors

Rudy Vargas
Chair
Director of Strategic Initiatives, Price Philanthropies Foundation

Ocean Discovery Institute Alumnus, Class of 2008

Heather Bentley
Vice Chair

Devon Gibson
Treasurer
Audit Manager, Deloitte & Touche

Tara Marathe
Secretary
Nonprofit Leadership, Strategy & Communications

Barbra Calantas
Biological Resources and Land Management Practice Leader, Founder of the Environmental Professional Diversity Collective

Jasmine Davenport
Climate Justice Advocate, Scientist & Strategist

Scott Grimes
Vice President, Endangered Habitats Conservancy

Vanessa Sandoval
Environmental Planner, City of San Diego

Ocean Discovery Institute Alumna, Class of 2006

Kristen Koch
Director, Southwest Fisheries Science Center

Mathew Mitchell
Vice President, Corporate Development, Arialys Therapeutics

Dr. Anai Novoa
Student Success and Summer Programs Coordinator, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego

Ocean Discovery Institute Alumna, Class of 2007

Sean Caddell
Significant Property Specialist, Coast Sotheby’s International Realty

Tres Conrique
Clinical Professor, University of Grenoble IAE Graduate School of Business and Knauss School of Business, University of San Diego

Scott Pearson
Director of Environmental Services, SDG&E

Theodore J. Griswold
Partner, Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP

John Johns
Retired President, Providence Marketing Corporation

Dr. Noelle Norton
Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of San Diego

Ileana Ovalle
Strategy & Governance Advisor, Calit2

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