Our Team
With the help of our Staff, Consultants, Interns, Board, and Board of Advisors, we are working hard to take our Country to net zero.
CHERP Solar Works Staff
Megan Anderson
Director of Admin & Workforce Development Program Manager
Megan Anderson has a background in mathematics and theology. In 2019, she received her Master’s from Claremont School of Theology, studying interdisciplinary studies with a concentration in religion, society, and social change...
Jose Rios
Accounts Payable/Receivable Analyst & Database Manager
Jose Rios received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology with a concentration in Environmental Studies from the University of Laverne. Durings his time there, he took on numerous leadership roles in various cultural clubs, deeply enjoying volunteering his time to help create a...
CHERP Professional Services
IdealPV Team
Harvey Mudd College
Manufacturing Clinic Team
2018-2019 Academic Year
Kash Gokli
Professor of Manufacturing Practice and Director, Engineering Clinic
Harvey Mudd College
Kash_gokli@hmc.edu
Jacquelyn Aguilera
Mathematical Economics and Engineering Design, Manufacturing, and Management Student
Harvey Mudd College
jaguilera@g.hmc.edu
Priscilla Chu
Environmental Engineering Student,
Harvey Mudd College
pchu@g.hmc.edu
Christopher McElroy
Design Engineer Student,
Harvey Mudd College
cmcelroy@g.hmc.edu
Giulia Castleberg
General Engineering Student,
Harvey Mudd College
gcastleberg@g.hmc.edu
Nate Smith
Student,
Harvey Mudd College
nmsmith@g.hmc.edu
Harvey Mudd College
Technical Advisory Clinic Team
2017-2018 Academic Year
L-R Back Row: Devon Hartman, Dallon Asnes, Jonathan Kupfer, William Lamb, Kent Kernahan
L-R Front Row: Florence Walsh, Quentin Barth, Prof Qimin Yang PhD
Professors
Richard G. Olson, PhD
Professor of History of Science Emeritus, HMC
Qimin Yang, PhD
Professor of Engineering, Fiber optic, Optical communications, Optical packet switching networks, HMC
Richard Haskell, PhD
Biomedical Optics, Biophysics, Laser Physics, Quantum Optics Emeritus, HMC
Peter Seata, PhD
Ulta-fast physics, semiconductors, photovoltaics, energy and environment, HMC
Students
Dallon Asnes
Physics Student, Pomona College
Jonathan Kupfer
Physics Student, HMC
Florence Walsh
Engineering Student, HMC
Quentin Barth
Astro-Physics Student, HMC
William Lamb
Physics Student, HMC
Board of Advisors
CHERP Solar Works Advisory Board Executive Committee
Don Gould
President, Gould Asset Management
Ernie Iseminger
Vice President of Development,
Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute
Kent Kernahan
President, idealPV
K@idealPV.com
Randall Lewis
Executive Vice President, Lewis Group
Joe Lyons
Former Mayor, City of Claremont
Paul Steffen
Owner, Wheeler Steffen Sotheby's
International Realty
Debbie Freund
Past President, Professor,
Claremont Graduate University
George Blackstone
President/CEO, Every Watt Matters
gblackstone@everywattmatters.com
Peter Coye
President/CEO, California Energy and
Power pcoye@cal-epower.com
Cecily Jackson-Zapata
CHERP General Council, Project Director,
Social Innovatus
Frank Wen
Manager - Research, Analysis and
Information Services Division, So Cal
Association of Governments (SCAG)
Howard Choy
Former Director of Sustainability,
LA County. Current, Energy
Jefferson Welch
CEO Consultant
Ron Vera
Partner, Law Offices of Vera & Barbosa
Jack Meek
Professor of Public Administration at the
College of Business and Public Management
at the University of La Verne
Gary Gaukler
Director - Drucker School, Center for supply
chain management
Freeman Allen
Professor Emeritus, Pomona College.
Founder of Sustainable Claremont
Enrique Medina
Director Adult & Career Education, City of
Pomona Unified School District
enrique.medina@pomona.K12.ca.us
Bill Manis
President and CEO, San Gabriel Valley
Economic Partnership
Richard Haskell
Professor of Physics Emeritus, Harvey
Mudd College, haskell@g.hmc.edu
Jil Stark
Directory Emerita, Pomona Fairplex
Ted Beatty
Director of Resource and Program Development, Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) www.SCPPA.org
Darron Poulsen
Water & Wastewater Operations Director at
City of Pomona
darron_poulsen@ci.pomona.ca.us
John Cobb
Founding Chairperson of Pando Populus. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Author of fifty books on the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and the environment.
Fred Lyn
Utility Director, City of Rancho Cucamonga
Sam Pedroza
Former Mayor, City of Claremont
Danny Oaxaca
Founder, SGVCC, Pomona
Kash Golki
Professor of Manufacturing Practice,
Director, Engineering Clinic
Richard Worthington
Professor of Environmental Politics,
Pomona College
John Holliday
President/CEO, Holliday Rock
Jennifer Stark
Councilperson, City of Claremont
Margaret Aichele
Manager, dA Gallery
margaret.daartcenter@gmail.com
Jamie and Stephani Sutherland
General Contrator and Medical
Journalist, jsutherland@gray.com
Devon Hartman
Executive Director, CHERP
Mark Peterson
Non-profit, Workforce Dev, Fundraising Expert
Dan Mazmanian
Professor, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy and the Academic Director of the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, mazmania@usc.edu
CHERP Solar Works Advisory Board
Kari Anderson
CFO/Co-Founder, EMS Inc.
Suzanne Beaumaster
Professor, University of LaVerne
Corinne Dorfman
President, Rogue Consulting LLC
Whitney Hanlon
Principal, Whitney Hanlon Designs
Tobias Hecht
Professor of Anthropology,
Pomona College
William Jennings
P.E., Senior Engineer, Sigway Energy
Kathi and Jeff Pryor
Workforce Development Experts
John Jurewitz
Professor of Economics, Pomona College
Robert Mejia
Workforce Development Expert,
President - Etherworks
Dan Moncayo
President, Home Performance Matters
Solar Division
dmoncayo@homeperformancematters.com
Michael Nguyen
President, Communal Life. Former Director,
The Energy Coalition
Peter Saeta
Professor of Physics,
Harvey Mudd College
Abhi Sambari
Founder/CEO Vercel Studios
Chris Veirs
Principal Planner, City of Claremont
Jim and Priscilla Walters
Alan Williamson
Director of Solar Installations,
Grid Alternatives, Retired
