Jonathan Parfrey

Executive director of Climate Resolve, a climate advocacy organization headquartered in downtown Los Angeles. In the past, Jonathan notably served as a commissioner at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power from 2008 to 2013. He is also a founder and board member of CicLAvia, the popular street event.

He previously served as director of the GREEN LA Coalition (2007-2010), and as Los Angeles director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility (1994 to 2007).
Jonathan is a founder of the statewide Alliance of Regional Collaboratives for Climate Adaptation, an advisory board member at the UCLA Center for Healthy Climate Solutions; a fellow at the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities; a member of the State of California Climate Adaptation Technical Advisory Council; Chair of the BizFed Institute; a member of the steering committee of the Tiüac’a’ai Healthy Land Project of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians; and an advisory board member at the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation.
In 1992, Jonathan received the Paul S. Delp Award for Outstanding Service, Peace, and Social Justice, and was awarded a Durfee Foundation Fellowship in 2002, and a Stanton Fellowship in 2010, and was appointed a Senior Fellow at the USC Marshall School of Business in 2011. In April 2016, he was received the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair’s Green Leadership Award.

When he’s not at work, Jonathan likes to hang out with his wife, Nancy L. Cohen, his four children, and four grandchildren – as well as going with friends on epic hikes and bike rides.