Jo Gardias | Manager, Nationwide Advocacy, Clean Air, American Lung Association (ALA)

Jo Gardias is a Clean Air National Policy Manager for the American Lung Association, coordinating the organization’s state-level electric vehicle regulation and infrastructure efforts. Gardias formerly was climate and budget legislative staff for California State Senator Josh Becker, and managed the Subcommittee of the Clean Energy Future. She previously served as a board member for 350 Silicon Valley and worked at multiple nonprofits on regional decarbonization initiatives. She earned her bachelors from UC Berkeley in Political Science and Public Policy, where she worked at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment and completed her honors thesis on the political determinants of COVID-relief transportation funding.