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8 ambassadors across 3 regions
City ambassador

Los Angeles

Brings LA’s Claude builders together for practical workshops, meetups and Impact Labs.

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Opened the Los Angeles Claude community in February 2026 and hosts local events, including the August 2026 Impact Lab with Travis Johnson.

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Travis Johnson

Co-founder, AuraPath AI

City ambassador

Orange County

Hosts hands-on Orange County meetups and helps teams put AI to work.

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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.

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Michael T. Brown

Founder, CrossBeam

Vertical ambassador
Industry
  • Legal

Orange County

Helps legal professionals build with Claude. Attorney and Claude Code hackathon winner.

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Personal injury attorney and winner of Anthropic’s first Claude Code hackathon. Built CrossBeam to check building plans against city code; leads local Claude community work for legal professionals.

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Max Krueger

Backland Labs

City ambassador

San Diego

Connects San Diego’s AI builders through Claude meetups, workshops and civic Impact Labs.

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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.

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Dhruv Kanetkar

Founding AI Manager, Cadre AI

Vertical ambassador
Industry
  • Life Sciences
  • Biotech
  • Financial Services

San Diego

Brings San Diego builders together to explore AI, from coding to life sciences.

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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.

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Brian Westpoint

Co-founder, Movement Matters Collective

San Diego

Helps small businesses and nonprofits put AI to work through community-led learning.

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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.

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San Diego

Builds creator communities and connects AI builders through AI Snack Club.

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Builds creator and community programs, with experience at Google, Meta and startups. Runs AI Snack Club in San Francisco and San Diego and focuses on helping AI builders connect.

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Srishti Mathur

User research & product development

San Diego

Brings a user-research perspective to Claude conversations in biotech and life sciences.

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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.

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Ambassadors worldwide

Find Claude ambassadors around the world in the community-maintained Clauders directory.

Southern California, north to south

Santa Barbara · Los Angeles · Orange County · San Diego

27 listed events · 8 ambassadors.

Become an ambassador

Bring your local Claude community together. Explore the program and apply on Anthropic’s official Claude Community Ambassadors page.