Sabrina Ashjian consults in the legal, legislative, and regulatory space internationally, nationally, and locally with clients ranging from investment firms to nonprofit organizations. She has taught in environmental law and legislation clinics at UCLA and UC Berkeley. Prior to academia she advanced animal welfare legislation as California State Director of the Humane Society of the United States. She has served as an environmental crimes prosecutor and began her career as a public defender. She has been appointed by two governors to serve California. First by Governor Brown to the Cannabis Control Appeals Panel, and most recently, by Governor Newsom to the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board.

Sabrina is proud to serve as Board Chair for the American Red Cross Pacific Coast Chapter. She also participates in several other nonprofit spaces on issues of environmental justice, increasing representation of women in appointed and elected office, and mentoring the next generation.

Sivani Babu is the co-founder and co-CEO of Hidden Compass, a women-founded media company ending the era of clickbait and transforming the way audiences participate in journalism. She is also an award-winning conservation journalist and nature photographer whose work frequently meshes history, science, and polar exploration. She’s contributed to numerous publications and exhibits worldwide, and her stories have been recognized multiple times in The Best American Travel Writing series.

Babu began volunteering with the American Red Cross after evacuating her own home twice due to wildfires in the first two years she lived in Santa Barbara. The experiences drove home her desire to be of service to her community and others during challenging times. She is grateful to be able to help tell the Red Cross story and further the organization’s mission.

She holds an AB in economics, public policy studies, and political science from the University of Chicago, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A former Teach for America corps member and federal public defender, she also teaches storytelling as a tool for justice and advocacy to law students around the country.

Babu grew up on the Central Coast in Orcutt, California. A daughter of Indian immigrants who instilled in her an unyielding curiosity about the world, Babu is a prolific reader, an earnest traveler, and a committed stargazer.