Janelle London, Co-Executive Director

JANELLE LONDON

Co-Executive Director

Janelle London is the co-executive director of Coltura, which she joined in 2017. She served on the Environmental Quality Commission for the city of Menlo Park and has advised Peninsula Clean Energy and Green Ninja.

Janelle published the first op-ed in California calling for a phaseout of gasoline-powered vehicles, and has written about the need for EV charging highway signage. She co-authored law review articles on mandating vehicle electrification and regulating gas stations as well as reports calling for EV policy reforms to focus on getting the biggest gasoline users to switch to EVs first. She launched Joint Venture Silicon Valley’s “Beyond Gasoline” initiative and is the principal author of the award-winning, first-ever children’s storybook about the harms of gasoline, Sparky’s Electrifying Tale.

She was a director at the Fortune 500 dialysis company DaVita for 14 years, and prior to that she practiced law with O’Melveny & Myers

Janelle is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California Berkeley Law School. She is fluent in Spanish and is married with two children.