Born in Mexico City and raised in San Diego, Paula Ezcura joined the Climate Science Alliance team first as a Climate Resilience Fellow, then as the Science Program Manager, and most recently the Operations Manager—helping manage the organization’s back-end needs as it continues to grow. Paula has studied climate change and its impacts from a variety of angles. As an undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara she began studying the carbon sequestration potential of Mexico’s mangrove ecosystems. Then, as a graduate student in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Climate Science & Policy program, Paula completed a capstone project on the threat that climate change impacts, particularly rising seas, pose to coastal cultural heritage sites in Puerto Rico. Also at Scripps, Paula has previously worked as a research and communications associate for the Dr. Octavio Aburto, where her work has included distilling research on mangroves and conservation into policy and outreach materials intended for a non-scientific audience. Before joining the Alliance, she also served as a project coordinator to the California Collaborative for Climate Change Solutions under Dr. Ram Ramanathan. Paula has also been a research diver, and volunteer interpreter at an immigration nonprofit, and a college-access mentor for underserved high-school students in San Diego.