Welcome to the Water Learning Series: Los Angeles
session six
We welcome Carlos Moran, Sr. Program Manager, Council for Watershed Health
With advanced degrees in social work, Carlos Moran’s experience includes designing and implementing high impact strategies that intersect mental health, public health and environmental justice. He regularly engages diverse stakeholders to advance placed based solutions that drive large scale, multi-benefit investments in LA’s most economically, environmentally and health stressed communities.
His macro social work experience includes environmental justice planning, environmental justice, community organizing, mental health, public health, program and budget design, needs assessments & evaluation, social and environmental policy, management, project development and financing.
He regularly engages local Cities, County, and State agencies and elected officials to address global climate change at the local level through policy change, policy implementation, and placed based solutions that drive large scale infrastructure investments in urban areas.
Carlos has played a role in advancing large scale multi-benefit projects throughout the LA Region. In addition to environmental justice planning he has also led teams that engaged tens of thousands of Angelenos and especially those from the most environmentally and economically stressed communities to plant thousands of trees, capture stormwater, and become stewards of their environment. Previously he led a partnership of community-based organizations that empowered children, youth and families to transform an abandoned bread factory in South Los Angeles into a multi-service social service center serving over 3,000 beneficiaries per year.
Carlos also serves as adjunct faculty in the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. He teaches graduate courses on policy, research and program evaluation, and human behavior. He integrates real-world knowledge into the classroom environment through his depth of skills in environmental justice planning, public policy, management, research and evaluation, children & youth, leadership, and mental health.
To balance life he enjoys anything outdoors especially hiking, backpacking and snowboarding.
