Miya Kitahara is Program Manager in the Built Environment at StopWaste, a public agency in Alameda County working on energy and material efficiency. She has promoted the inclusion of embodied carbon in buildings among local government climate action plans in California. She supported the County of Marin in adopting their low carbon concrete code, is active in the Carbon Leadership Forum's San Francisco Bay Area chapter, and serves on the leadership team of the West Coast Climate and Materials Management Forum. She has worked in sustainability with cities across the Bay Area since 2006 and holds an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise.