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Los Angeles
Brings LA’s Claude builders together for practical workshops, meetups and Impact Labs.
Opened the Los Angeles Claude community in February 2026 and hosts local events, including the August 2026 Impact Lab with Travis Johnson.
Co-founder & CTO, AB Analytics
Los Angeles
Helps engineers become founders and brings LA builders together to work with Claude.
Software engineer turned founder. Co-founded AB Analytics, which builds AI systems for businesses, and runs Code To CEO, which helps engineers start their own companies. Hosted Glendale’s Claude Workshop in August 2026.
Co-founder, AuraPath AI
Orange County
Hosts hands-on Orange County meetups and helps teams put AI to work.
Helps teams put AI to work through AuraPath AI. One of the first 50 Claude Ambassadors, he hosts Orange County events and co-hosts across Southern California.
Founder, CrossBeam
Orange County
Helps legal professionals build with Claude. Attorney and Claude Code hackathon winner.
Personal injury attorney and winner of Anthropic’s first Claude Code hackathon. Built CrossBeam to check building plans against city code, now in a 12-month pilot with the City of Laguna Beach; leads local Claude community work for legal professionals.
Head of Community, Sandboxx
Orange County
Helps marketers explore what AI means for their work. 20-year community builder, ex-Disney and TOMS.
Bethany has spent 20 years proving that belonging is a growth strategy. She spent 7 years on Disney’s Global Sales and Marketing team, joined the founding team at TOMS to lead Community through its acquisition by Bain Capital, led a team of 32 across multiple cities at WeWork, and launched 125+ global community groups at Upwork. Today she is Head of Community at Sandboxx, where more than 240,000 people have joined a community supporting recruits, military families, and their supporters. As the Claude Ambassador for Marketing in Orange County, she hosts free quarterly gatherings where people in traditional marketing roles think through what AI means for their field. Everyone is welcome. As she reminds her daughter, we’re all students for life.
Founder, Backland Labs
San Diego
Connects San Diego’s AI builders through Claude meetups, workshops and civic Impact Labs.
Advises companies on AI strategy and founded San Diego’s AI Tinkerers chapter. Hosts Claude meetups and Impact Labs, including a lab built on City of San Diego open data.
San Diego
Brings San Diego builders together to explore AI, from coding to life sciences.
Connects San Diego’s AI builders through local events. Founded SDx’s UC San Diego chapter and co-hosts Claude conversations, including biotech and life sciences.
Co-founder, Movement Matters Collective
San Diego
Helps small businesses and nonprofits put AI to work through community-led learning.
Connects community wellness, ethical AI and local businesses. Taught a free five-week BELL Smart Labs course on building proposal systems for small businesses and nonprofits, and led AFP San Diego’s August 2026 Claude workshop for fundraising professionals.
San Diego
Builds creator communities and connects AI builders through AI Snack Club.
Builds creator and community programs, with experience at Google, Meta and startups. Runs AI Snack Club in San Francisco and San Diego, co-organizes San Diego’s AI Tinkerers chapter and focuses on helping AI builders connect.
User research & product development
San Diego
Brings a user-research perspective to Claude conversations in biotech and life sciences.
Brings a research and product perspective to San Diego’s Claude community. Co-hosted the September 2026 biotech and life sciences conversation with Dhruv Kanetkar.
Find Claude ambassadors around the world in the community-maintained Clauders directory.
Santa Barbara · Los Angeles · Orange County · San Diego
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Bring your local Claude community together. Explore the program and apply on Anthropic’s official Claude Community Ambassadors page.
