Our Team / Shona Calzada Ganguly
Shona Calzada Ganguly maneuvers through the terrain of environmental policy in California. She believes in an intersectional, holistic, and equity-driven approach to addressing climate change.
Her areas of expertise include partnerships, outreach, coalition building, facilitating collaboration, urban conservation, multi-benefit nature-based solutions, watershed investments, stormwater, habitat connectivity, riparian restoration, regional funding measures, campaigns, planning, parks, and open space.
She leads the firm’s conservation, environmental, and intersectional climate portfolio.
Shona currently serves as the President of the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters, previously having served as Vice President and Communications Chair.
She worked in External Affairs at The Nature Conservancy in California for nearly 12 years managing relationships with local, state, and federal legislators, officials, and partner organizations. She served as the policy and partnerships liaison for conservation programs in southern California. In that role, she engaged in a number of campaigns, including Proposition 1 (2014), Proposition 68 (2018), LA County’s Measure A for Parks and Open Space (2016), LA County’s Measure W for Stormwater (2018), and SOAR in Ventura County (2016) among others.
Shona graduated from the University of California, Berkeley (BA in Development Studies and South Asian Studies), Claremont Graduate University (MA in Cultural Studies), and the Peter Drucker and Masatoshi Ito School of Management (MBA).
She has been a partner at and an advisor for her family business, Pia Ka Ghar, that has carried Indian designer clothing and accessories since 2003, primarily because of the vision of inclusive growth in Bengal, women’s empowerment, and international development. Her focus has been on supply chain management, operations, strategic growth/planning, brand management, sales/marketing, and communications.
She is an avid international traveler, dog lover, language learner (Bengali, Italian, Spanish, and French), foodie/cooking junkie, addicted to yoga, leisurely hiker, and has been dancing (mostly ballet) since she was four years old. She currently lives in Shadow Hills (a neighborhood of Los Angeles) with her son, husband, and two Husky-Malamute-Shepherds.