The California Natural Resources Agency oversees and supports more than 26 distinct departments, conservancies, and commissions. Our Agency Executive Team leads efforts to steward California’s natural environment and to advance Governor Newsom’s key priorities.
Over 25,000 Californians work within our Agency all across the state to meet our mission to protect, manage, and restore the state’s environment and its vast natural, cultural, and historical resources. We advance this work with science as our foundation and inclusion and collaboration as our guiding principles.
Executive Leadership
Wade Crowfoot
Secretary for Natural Resources
Keali'i Bright
Undersecretary for Natural Resources
Kimberly Arbuckle
Special Assistant to the Secretary
Tony Andersen
Deputy Secretary for Communications
Joe Shea
Assistant Secretary for Salton Sea Policy
Christopher Calfee
Special Counsel to the Secretary
Bryan Cash
Assistant Secretary for Administration and Finance
Jenn Eckerle
Deputy Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Policy for Natural Resources and Executive Director of Ocean Protection Council
Megan Mekelburg
Deputy Secretary for Legislation
Amanda Hansen
Deputy Secretary for Climate Change
Meghan Hertel
Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat
Lisa Lien-Mager
Deputy Secretary for Forest and Wildfire Resilience
Le-Quyen Nguyen
Deputy Secretary for Energy
Gloria Sandoval
Deputy Secretary for Access
Geneva E. B. Thompson
Deputy Secretary for Tribal Affairs
Samantha Arthur
Deputy Secretary for Water
Jana Ganion
Senior Advisor for Offshore Wind
Contact Us
California Natural Resources Agency
715 P Street, 20th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 653-5656
(916) 744-6092 fax
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