Fonna Forman is a Professor of Political Theory and the Founding Director of the Center on Global Justice at the University of California, San Diego. Being a theorist of ethics and public culture, her work focuses on human rights on the urban scale, climate justice in cities, and equitable urban development in the global south. She serves as Vice-Chair of the University of California Climate Solutions Group, and on the Global Citizenship Commission (advising UN policy on human rights).