Monica Gilchrist

Deputy Executive Director - Los Angeles, CA

Monica focuses on tracking policy, funding and sustainability initiatives relevant to California.  Additionally, she serves as a program trainer, promoting and supporting climate mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability training.

Monica has professional experience both creating and implementing cutting edge green building and sustainable development programs, policies and projects. Prior to joining ICLEI, Monica was Executive Director at the Green Hive Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to the advancement of education, programs and services related to clean technologies, climate change, green job development and sustainable economic development. She also was co-founder and co-owner of green building consulting firm Eco Creative Solutions, and was the National Resource Center Coordinator for environmental non-profit Global Green USA, where she assisted in the creation and opening of Global Green's second resource center in New Orleans, as part of Global Green's response to hurricane Katrina.

Monica has been featured in numerous media outlets from print to television as an expert in green building. Monica holds an MA in Urban Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles with an emphasis on Sustainable Development. She and her husband live in Saugus, California where they are raising three beautiful children, four horses and six goats.

Contact Information:
E-mail: monica.gilchrist@iclei.org
Phone: (661) 645-2517