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Chase Davenport, Founder

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Chase Davenport is a dedicated teacher, scientist, builder, and and lover of San Francisco's Ocean Beach.  


Chase began his career as a Teach for America Kindergarten teacher in Richmond, California. His passion for education led him to pursue a PhD in Human Development at UC Berkeley. Chase was also an Artificial Intelligence Researcher on the Sustainable Technologies team at Accenture and a wooden surfboard builder at Hess Surfboards. 


Over time, Chase's personal and professional interests converged on beaches. His formal education in Coastal Science and Policy at UC Santa Cruz equips him with the knowledge to understand coastal systems and his experiences as a teacher and builder enable him to form connections between these systems. Chase started the Ocean Beach Institute to sustain beaches and the communities that depend on them. 

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Greg Wright

Greg Wright

Greg Wright

Greg Wright is a technology, research strategy and operations leader with diverse experience across Arcadia Science and Twitter. Greg illustrated local bestseller Ocean Beach: Fog, Fauna and Flora and brings 10+ year experience building nonprofits and big wave surfing to Ocean Beach Institute.

Alex Fang

Greg Wright

Greg Wright

Alex Fang is the Chief Development Officer at SF General hospital. He is also an experienced investor, philanthropist and nonprofit leader.   Alex brings expertise in fundraising, organization-building and bodysurfing to the OBI team.  

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