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Meet the Panelists

  • Dr. Nicholas Spada is a research scientist with the UC Davis Air Quality Research Center and Crocker Nuclear Laboratory, which operate two national air monitoring networks for the U.S. EPA and National Park Service. He is also a co-director of the Citizen Air Monitoring Network where he works closely with front-line communities to address hyper-local air quality concerns.

  • Stacy Kaiser is a licensed psychotherapist, author, relationship expert and media personality. With over thirty years of experience working with individuals, couples, families and groups on a wide variety of topics. 

  • Nancy A. Piotrowski, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist based in northern California. She brings 30+ years of experience as an educator, researcher, clinician, consultant, and advocate concentrating on clinical, prevention, and community studies. T

    his includes experiences responding to air quality threats from industrial sources and wildfires in her locale. Dr. Piotrowski is author of 200+ written works and currently serves on numerous boards and advocacy groups including the American Psychological Association Board of Scientific Affairs and the Society of Environmental, Conservation, and Population Psychology.

  • Dr. Diane St. Fleur, M.D.  is a triple board-certified psychiatrist in Adult, Child and Adolescent, and Forensic Psychiatry, licensed in California and New York. She served nearly four years as Chief Medical Officer at Kedren Behavioral Health and is now focused on her private practice, Wellness In the Nu, a holistic psychiatry clinic dedicated to suicide prevention and whole-person care.

  • Jenn Rodriguez is the Program Manager for Growing Works Nursery, an innovative wholesale/retail plant nursery and a mental wellness horticultural therapy program with Turning Point Foundation. It provides job training, employment, volunteer opportunities & recovery services (in a horticultural environment) for people with mental health challenges. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Horticulture and Garden Management from the UC, Davis.

  • Jeni Knack is the co-director of Parents Against Santa Susana Field Lab (PASSFL), a grassroots advocacy group. With a background in anthropology and extensive fieldwork experience, Jeni brought critical expertise to the collection of ash and soil samples following the Woolsey Fire. Her work with PASSFL spans both scientific and policy arenas—interpreting complex reports on soil, water, and air pollution, and advocating for systemic change within regulatory agencies. During the Los Angeles fires, she was contacted by an academic consortium and volunteered to collect environmental samples for air quality research purposes. Jeni currently lives in Simi Valley.