Janelle KellmanJanelle Kellman

Janelle Kellman is a climate risk expert, local community leader, and disaster preparedness non-profit executive focused on solving the high cost-of-living crisis facing California. As an environmental lawyer with climate risk expertise, Janelle founded the Center for Sea Rise Solutions to help governments and local communities reduce economic risk from wildfres, fooding, and extreme weather—instead of passing on the costs of disasters to taxpayers. As a local community leader and Mayor of Sausalito, Janelle has led responses to fooding, sea level rise, and wildfres— securing millions of dollars to strengthen local infrastructure, which led to lower homeowner insurance premiums. Rather than waiting for someone else to act on homelessness, as Mayor, she declared a state of emergency for a local encampment and led a humanitarian response to move people into housing. Local homelessness has since dropped by more than half. California’s Lieutenant Governor helps direct educational, environmental, and economic policy statewide. Janelle will: 1. Use her climate expertise to cut electricity bills in half over the next decade by changing how fire prevention is funded; 2. Invest in disaster-preparedness programs to stabilize the insurance market; and 3. Expand vocational and career-aligned education in our community colleges so that every student can contribute to California’s climate tech, housing, service, and skilled trades. Resulting in cutting electricity bills, slashing home insurance costs, and making community colleges free for all California residents. JanelleKellman.com

Kellman is an environmental attorney and former Sausalito city councilmember with ten years of local government experience. She founded a climate nonprofit studying sea-level rise and previously served as a planning commissioner for four years before joining city council in 2020. She earned her law degree from Stanford and grew up in Pennsylvania.

Key endorsements: California Legislative Jewish Caucus.

VIG listing; Occupation: Climate Risk Executive