{"id":156166,"date":"2026-01-30T06:25:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T06:25:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:25:22","slug":"policy-advocacy-building-coalitions-influencing-decision-makers-with-krystian-lahage-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156166\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Advocacy \u2013 Building Coalitions &#038; Influencing Decision-makers with Krystian Lahage \u201817"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-align-center\">Policy Advocacy \u2013 Building Coalitions &amp; Influencing Decision-makers<br \/>Krystian Lahage \u201817<br \/>Public Policy Officer<br \/>Mojave Desert Land Trust<\/p>\n<p>Krystian Lahage is the Mojave Desert Land Trust\u2019s Public Policy Officer, responsible for managing the organization\u2019s engagement with elected officials and development of policy strategies. Krystian comes from the public sector where he most recently served as the Legislative Affairs Manager for the County of Orange, responsible for policy concerning public lands, water, and infrastructure. In that role, he helped lead development of the county\u2019s first climate action plan. Krystian has also served as U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein\u2019s Senior Field Representative for Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino Counties and co-led her California wildfire taskforce. Krystian is an avid desert lover and can be found camping with his dog Jezebel when he is not catching up on the latest current events.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Policy Advocacy \u2013 Building Coalitions &amp; Influencing Decision-makersKrystian Lahage \u201817Public Policy OfficerMojave Desert Land Trust Krystian Lahage is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1818,1820,7,1815,1823,1821,1822,1819,131,133,132,1817,1816],"class_list":["post-156166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-49ers","tag-cal-state","tag-california","tag-college","tag-conoley","tag-csu","tag-csulb","tag-dirtbags","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-state","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}