Gaby Seltzer
Hometown:
Mountain View, California
Connect: LinkedIn
Gaby is excited to provide capacity to the City of Antioch and its stakeholders and channel new resources to the area. Born and raised in the Bay Area, they witnessed the compounding impacts of inequality and climate stressors in the area’s underinvested communities. They are inspired to help Antioch connect the dots between economic and environmental resilience opportunities.
Gaby is passionate about building community wealth and power through sustainability initiatives. Their professional background is in grassroots food systems work, including managing a social enterprise program that increased access to healthy foods at corner stores in Washington, DC’s food apartheid neighborhoods. Through this work, they helped locally-anchored businesses build resilient partnerships with residents, governments, academic institutions, and industry groups.
Witnessing the power of local networks to foster sustainability and social justice led Gaby to Presidio Graduate School, where they honed their cross-sector organizing skills through an MBA and MPA in Sustainability. While pursuing these degrees they consulted for several economic resilience organizations. They also served as an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellow twice: first designing a data portal to drive climate investments to frontline communities at the City of Seattle, and next building datasets and learning materials to drive climate adaptation programming at Pacific Gas & Electric Company.
In their spare time, Gaby enjoys spending time outside and hosting gatherings.
ERC Project
Project Title:
Crossroads to The Delta Project
Host Community or Region:
California
Host Organization:
City of Antioch
Located an hour from Silicon Valley, Antioch’s “Crossroads to the Delta” project is designed to revitalize the local economy, address commuter challenges, and promote a sustainable business ecosystem. Utilizing strategic partnerships, innovative industry development, and data-driven planning, the project addresses issues such as lengthy commutes, limited local job opportunities, and underutilized city resources. The ERC Fellow will focus on six key initiatives: establishing local business associations, attracting water-based tech startups, development of an IT workforce base, marketing our waterfront facing industrial zones, building a supplier diversification program, and evaluating the small business recovery programs. The project aims to contribute to Antioch's recovery, sustainability, resilience and vibrancy.
Interested in supporting this project or learning more? Contact the ERC program team here.
