Pelosi has represented San Francisco in Congress for 38 years. Currently serving as Speaker Emerita and Representative for California’s 11th Congressional District, she is fighting For The People to lower costs, grow paychecks and create jobs.

Pelosi is the architect of generation-defining legislation, including the Affordable Care Act and the American Rescue Plan. As Speaker, she also led the Congress in passing historic laws to lower health care costs, rebuild infrastructure, support small businesses and deliver assistance for students and veterans.

A champion on climate, Pelosi delivered landmark investments to accelerate America’s transition to a clean energy future, while preserving the environment and advancing environmental justice. As Speaker, Pelosi made the climate crisis the flagship issue of her Speakership. In 2022, Speaker Pelosi delivered House passage of the Inflation Reduction Act – which contained the biggest, boldest climate action in history. This law included many House-crafted provisions to accelerate America’s transition to a clean energy future: putting the nation on a path to slash carbon pollution by 40 percent by 2030, while creating millions of new jobs and advancing environmental justice.

During Pelosi’s first Speakership, she enacted comprehensive energy legislation in 2007 that raised vehicle fuel efficiency standards for the first time in three decades and made a game-changing commitment to America’s homegrown biofuels. In 2009, she led passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act to create clean energy jobs, combat the climate crisis and transition America to a clean energy economy.

A leader on conservation and the environment at home and abroad, Pelosi authored legislation to create the Presidio Trust and transform San Francisco’s former military post into an urban national park. She also secured passage of the “Pelosi Amendment” in 1989, now a global tool used to assess the potential environmental impacts of development. A defender of Democracy, she led the House efforts to protect voting rights and create the bipartisan Select Committee to Investigate January 6th. For decades, Pelosi has also been a powerful voice for human rights around the world.

Pelosi comes from a strong family tradition of public service. Married to Paul Pelosi, she is a proud mother of five and grandmother of ten.

Throughout her career in sustainability and community development, Loren has focused on supporting and lifting up local work and voices. She has advised major foundations, financial institutions, and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on promoting green jobs, transportation-oriented development, and healthy and sustainable affordable housing.

With the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, she helped mobilize hundreds of millions in public and private funding and information resources for locally driven community revitalization. With the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service, she helped NGOs, particularly from the global south, engage in and influence UN environment and development negotiations and published a book chapter on the important role of civil society.

Loren has also worked on mobilizing resources for political and democracy efforts, as well as catalytic investing in equitable sustainability efforts. She has a Master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School and a Bachelor’s from Oberlin College.

As legal director of the ACLU of Oregon, Mat worked on a variety of civil right issues including freedom of speech, student’s rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, and criminal justice reform. Mat routinely appeared in national and state media to comment on issues of constitutional law and civil rights. During their tenure, Mat was recognized as a “Best LGBT Lawyer Under 40” by the National LGBT Bar Association (2016), and received the Oregon Gay and Lesbian Lawyers Association Award of Merit (2017), Richard M. Ginsburg Outstanding Leadership for Immigrant Rights Award from the American Immigrant Lawyers Association of Oregon (2017), and the Aguila Award from Latino Network in recognition of extraordinary contributions and commitment to ensuring a thriving Latinx community in Oregon (2018).

Prior to their work at the ACLU, Mat managed litigation and information risk management for a global pharmaceutical company where they oversaw all aspects of commercial litigation. Mat began their career with 6+ years at Morrison & Foerster working on all aspects of patent and securities litigation and was recognized for their contributions in life sciences and technology, writing for PharmaExec.com and speaking at the ABA Life Sciences Legal Summit.

Mat received an Angel Award from California Lawyer in 2008 for their deep commitment to pro bono work relating to a precedent setting case brought on behalf of transgender prisoners seeking gender affirming care in Idaho’s Department of Corrections. Prior to law school, Mat worked as a biologist and conducted environmental impact assessments and endangered species surveys for power clients throughout the west.

They are on the board of the Chosen Family Law Center, Latino Network, and served on the board of the Transgender Law Center for 10+ years. Mat received their JD from Cornell Law School and BS in Biology from UC Irvine.

Her passion is for furthering understanding of HOW and WHY stories — particularly in media and entertainment — are so powerful, and translating research findings into practical insights to inform the narrative strategies of philanthropic, media, governmental, and nonprofit partners.

Her early love of film, combined with a deep reverence for the natural world, led her to a career in documentary filmmaking dedicated to the regeneration of people and planet. She is best known for the Sundance Award–winning film, FUEL and for her acclaimed documentaries KISS THE GROUND, COMMON GROUND, THE BIG FIX, and THE EARTHING MOVIE.

Her films have reached tens of millions of viewers worldwide, uncovering the hidden impacts of environmental degradation and illuminating the science of human and ecological connection.

A lifelong advocate for sustainable living, Rebecca is the founder of Regenerate Ojai, a wellness and environmental advocacyvorganization based in her hometown of Ojai, California.