KC is a member of both the the Evergreen Advisory and Governing Boards. KC is board chair for 350.org and former policy director for Climate Solutions. He has served as a special assistant to the Mayor of Seattle for clean energy and climate protection initiatives and as an assistant director in Washington's Department of Community, Trade, and Economic Development, where he directed the state's Energy Policy Office. From 1989 to 1994, he was executive director of the Northwest Energy Coalition.  He has also been active in the utility industry, helping Seattle City Light become the first major carbon-free electric utility in the late 1990s. KC earned his bachelor's degree at the University of California, Berkeley, and was a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he received a master's degree in public policy. He retired from Climate Solutions' staff at the end of 2018.