Meeting/Event Information

Maria Hassid
Executive Director of David Brower Center

Maria is proud and honored to serve as the Executive Director of the David Brower Center. Prior to joining the Center, Maria ran operations and talent for Magical Bridge Foundation, a Silicon Valley-based nonprofit that builds highly inclusive playgrounds around the world. For nearly a decade, she served as the program director for Alternative Ventures for At-Risk Youth, a Marin-based nonprofit dedicated to children with parents in prison. She has a BA in Psychology from Smith College and was the valedictorian of her MBA class at UC Davis. Maria loves hiking in the Oakland Hills and trips to Yosemite Valley with her family, where she enjoys watercolor painting.

Carlos Duarte
Assistant Professional Researcher at CBE

Carlos Duarte is an assistant professional researcher at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE) at UC Berkeley. His research interest includes radiant heating and cooling, occupant behavior impact on building energy consumption, and the development of tools that help various building stakeholders. He is currently working on a project aimed to standardize semantic descriptions of equipment, control points, and locations along their relationships to make it easier to extract actionable information from the wealth of data that buildings’ systems produce. He will also contribute to a project aimed to reduce natural gas consumption in commercial building heating systems.

Join us for a tour of the David Brower Center to explore its pioneering sustainable design and learn how its early sustainable design strategies and CBE research collaborations continue to shape high-performance buildings today.

This is a fundraiser—all proceeds will support students traveling to the Winter Conference and Expo. Come for the drinks, stay for the tour, and help support the next generation of professionals!