At UC Santa Cruz Claire served as Outreach Coordinator for Climate Outreach, Organizing, and Leadership, where she successfully led a campaign to increase climate change awareness and passed a ballot measure to reallocate student fees to support on-campus greenhouse gas reduction projects. Claire also took part in the University of California District of Colombia program, where she interned with the Climate Institute, researching international climate change policy, Small Island Developing States, and black carbon. Before joining SEI Claire lived in Bilbao, Spain, where she worked as an English Teaching Assistant at a middle and high school, and as a Research Assistant for the Basque Center for Climate Change.

Claire  joins SEI as part of Climate Corps Bay Area, where she is one of thirty AmeriCorps members placed in environmental nonprofits and local governments throughout the Bay Area working to achieve marked greenhouse gas reductions. She brings her experience in climate change science and policy, outreach and education to SEI where she serves as Sustainable Communities Associate.

At SEI, Claire supports local educational programming, including the Marin School of Environmental Leadership, Green Teams, and Cool the Earth.