Kirsten Spalding

Kirsten Snow Spalding leads Ceres’ Investor Network, and with Ceres’ leadership team, directs Ceres investor campaigns and initiatives and represents Ceres in global investor initiatives including The Investor Agenda and ClimateAction100+. She also leads Ceres' West Coast office.

Prior to joining Ceres, Spalding served as Chief Deputy Treasurer under California Treasurer Phil Angelides and directed the Treasurer’s environmental financing authorities. Prior to her government service, she worked in the labor movement as Chief of Staff for the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. In that role, Spalding co-founded the California Apollo Alliance. For six years, she chaired the Center for Labor Research and Education at University of California, Berkeley, and taught at Berkeley School of Law. As a lawyer with the firm of Beeson, Tayer and Bodine she represented unions and their pension plans. Kirsten Snow Spalding is an Episcopal priest and an avid hiker, cook and traveler.