Instructor
Sarah Eminhizer LinkedIn
SARAH EMINHIZER, M.S., is director of Programs and Workforce Development at the UC Santa Cruz Coastal Science and Policy Program, Coastal Climate Resilience. A California native, she is passionate about working with key actors to find innovative solutions to today’s biggest social and environmental problems. Foundational to this work is building networks of practitioners with the skills and capacity to advance innovative solutions and improve organizational effectiveness to enhance program success and longevity. As part of the Coastal Science and Policy program, Eminhizer helps shape the strategic direction of multiple initiatives, develops partnerships and networks, builds workforce training programs, and facilitates the core graduate program. This includes advising students and guiding the development of capstone projects with a range of practitioner organizations around the globe. She also facilitates CSP’s innovation programs such as the Blue Pioneers Program, CSP Lecture Series, and the “Hacking4Oceans” entrepreneurial course, which she helped launch (first in the nation), and continues to facilitate and contribute to as a guest lecturer. Eminhizer brings a breadth of experience in a range of sectors from her time working as an associate program director for the nonprofit Coral Reef Alliance addressing coral reef adaptation potential as well as overseeing their Fiji and Indonesia conservation programs, a director for Blue Earth Consultants (a management consulting firm focused on white water to blue water issues, innovations, and strategy), and as an environmental planner in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa. Sarah is the Board Chair of Wild Gift, a non-profit that connects and empowers environmental entrepreneurs through immersive wilderness experiences. Eminhizer holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology from UC Santa Barbara.