About Kerry's Work

Kerry (they/she) is committed to making good on the promises of California for all of its residents. Kerry is now at Communities for a Better Environment where she is the Just Transition Fellow, working with the Richmond community to achieve residents' vision of environmental justice through capacity-building and statewide policy work. Kerry's past efforts were in service of realizing the state's Human Right to Water in the San Joaquin Valley at Self-Help Enterprises, working alongside farmworker communities to address contaminated and depleted drinking water sources. She is honored to play a coordinating role at the direction of local resident leaders in the Allensworth Cemetery Project, which has returned the historic cemetery to the community’s control for the first time in decades.

Kerry graduated with their JD from Stanford Law School in 2023, where they have held a number of positions in environmental and queer and trans organizations, including as one of the co-presidents of OutLaw, the LGBTQ+ student group. She earned her MSc with Distinction in Water Science, Policy and Management from the University of Oxford; her dissertation explored how farmworker communities were participating or not in collaborative groundwater governance structures in California’s San Joaquin Valley as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act was first being implemented. That research, and their time living and working in the Valley on similar issues, inspires Kerry’s ongoing mission: to support historically marginalized communities, particularly low-income communities and communities of color, to advocate for themselves and succeed in their own futures’ creation.