Pacific Environment
Peter Bayuk is an experienced operations manager with a strong background in workplace management, internal communications, and project management. Currently serving as Senior Operations Manager at Pacific Environment since May 2023, Peter previously held the position of Operations Manager at Rapid, where strategic improvements in workplace management were directed alongside volunteer leadership in recruiting operations. Prior to that, at SHIFT Communications, Peter enhanced operational efficiencies, collaborating with various C-Suite departments, and significantly reducing headcount needs. Earlier roles include Project Manager at Mysfyt, Inc., Legal Advertising Manager and Office Manager at The Daily Californian, Marketing Associate at UC Berkeley Art Museum, and English Instructor at San Gervasi School. Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish and Film Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, complemented by study abroad experience in Hispanic Studies at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
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Pacific Environment
Pacific Environment empowers communities to protect their well-being and the natural world around them. We get money and expertise to the ground in challenging venues on the Pacific Rim, including China, Russia, and the Alaskan Arctic. By strengthening communities and protecting the environment in such places, we also promote transparency, public participation, and legal enforcement, which form the basis on which people can achieve lasting protection of their health and the environment. Pacific Environment offers one of the very few granting and training programs serving grassroots leaders around the Pacific Rim. At the heart of our long-term commitment to community-led environmental activism is a comprehensive support program. The community leaders and groups we partner with consistently tell us that the value we provide stems from three things: 1) giving them financial and mentoring support; 2) bringing them together in coordinated networks; and 3) supplying much needed expertise for their campaigns (e.g., technical, scientific, legal). Over three decades we have nurtured more than 150 grassroots organizations around the Pacific Rim and provided millions of dollars. In turn, the networks we foster create concentric ripples outward to many more people and organizations that ally together to undertake public education, litigation, media outreach, large-scale advocacy campaigns, and sophisticated policy work. To complement these community efforts, Pacific Environment has developed substantial expertise in global policy venues typically beyond the reach of local leaders. For example, we have obtained one of the few seats available to NGOs at the International Maritime Organization (IMO), a U.N. agency that writes the rules for the high seas. We use this seat to advocate for rules that protect marine mammals and indigenous food security, curb greenhouse gas emissions, and protect Arctic waters from the dangers of catastrophic oil spills.