August 28, 2025
Sejal Choksi-Chugh
Executive Director
Making Every Day a Good Day for the Bay
Sejal Choksi-Chugh is the Executive Director of San Francisco Baykeeper, where she has led the organization to more than 300 legal and advocacy wins that have forced polluters and government agencies to protect the Bay. Her leadership has proven that persistence and accountability can restore resilience to a threatened ecosystem.
At Ocean Hoptimism, she shared how those victories show the Bay’s capacity to recover when people fight for it, and how her deepest hope comes from the next generation—including her daughter and her friends—who are already devoting their free time to climate action. Her talk highlighted both the power of law and community to safeguard the Bay, and the importance of passing hope forward.
Given our current political climate, you have every reason to be concerned—and given our long record of winning fights on the frontlines, you also have every reason to be hopeful.
—Sejal Choksi-Chugh
