Ramanathan Million Climate Champions Fellowship
NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR UC STUDENTS!
The Ramanathan Million Climate Champions (RMCC) fellowship is a year-long opportunity designed to support a network of student leaders working at the intersection of climate change solutions and community resilience. The UC-wide fellowship is the flagship launch of a soon-to-be global Climate Champions program with the aspiration to empower a million youth around the world to lead climate resilience actions in their local communities.
The UC RMCC fellowship is supervised by Dr. Jyoti Mishra, co-director of the UC Eco Resilience Initiative (UCERI), Associate Professor at UC San Diego School of Medicine, and 2026 Faculty Champion of Diversity, along with the incredible support from expert mentors at all UC campuses. The RMCC fellowship will build on the success of UCERI’s capstone Climate Resilience education by equipping students with the inner resilience skills, leadership skills, and networks to expand climate solutions initiatives across all 10 UC campuses and our broader communities.
The UC RMCC fellowship launch is made possible by generous support from renowned climate scientist, Dr. Ram Ramanathan, winner of the 2026 Crafoord prize (the Nobel prize of the Geosciences), and philanthropist Sara Miller McCune.
Leadership Council
Fellowship Director
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Co-Chair of the Mental Health
Council of the UC Center for Climate, Health & Equity
Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, San Francisco
Chair of the Mental Health Council of the UC Center for Climate, Health & Equity
Philippe Goldin, PhD
Professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing
University of California, Davis
Co-Chair of the Mental Health
Council of the UC Center for Climate, Health & Equity
Gail Wright, MD
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher
University of California, Santa Cruz
Coryna Ogunseitan, MSW
PhD Candidate, Medical Anthropology
University of California, San Francisco
UC Campus Lead Faculty
Daniel Mello, PhD
Non-Senate Faculty of Psychology – School of Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts
University of California, Merced
David Presti, PhD
Professor in the Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley
David Sherman, PhD
Professor in the Department of Psychology
Director of the Social Climate Science Lab
University of California, Santa Barbara
Elissa Epel, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Erwan Monier, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources
Co-Director of Climate Adaptation Research Center
University of California, Davis
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry
University of California, San Diego
Larisa Castillo, PhD
Associate Professor, Humanities Core Program
School of Humanities
University of California, Irvine
Magy Seif El-Nasr, PhD
Professor and Department Chair, Computational Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
Vickie Mays, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, & of Health Policy & Management
Director of the UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research & Policy
Senior Fellow, Center for Health Policy Research
University of California, Los Angeles
Selin Nielsen, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Global Studies
University of California, Riverside