Sarah Eminhizer
Director, Programs and Workforce Development for the UC Santa Cruz Coastal Science and Policy Program
About
SARAH EMINHIZER, M.S., is director of Programs and Workforce Development for the UC Santa Cruz Coastal Science and Policy Program and Coastal Climate Resilience initiatives. 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. Eminhizer is a co-designer of Coastal Climate Resilience, the first in a growing series for domestic and international professionals.
As part of the Coastal Science and Policy program, Eminhizer helps shape the strategic direction of multiple initiatives, develops partnerships and networks, aligns workforce training, and facilitates activities in coastal science and policy graduate programming. This includes advising students and guiding the development of capstone projects with a range of practitioner organizations around the globe. She also leads in the design and strategic implementation of CSP’s innovative programming including the Blue Pioneers Accelerator Program, CSP Lecture Series, and the “Hacking4Oceans” entrepreneurial course, which she helped launch (first in the nation), and continues to support and contribute to as a guest lecturer.
Eminhizer brings a breadth of experience including diverse leadership positions such as as board chair of Wild Gift, associate program director for the nonprofit Coral Reef Alliance addressing coral reef adaptation potential overseeing their Fiji and Indonesia conservation programs, and director for Blue Earth Consultants, a management consulting firm focused on white water to blue water issues, innovations, and strategy, at the time supporting its strategic partner Coastal Quest), and as an environmental planner in the U.S. Territory of American Samoa. Eminhizer holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Management from Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology from UC Santa Barbara.
