Climate Change

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Lourdes Vera

2019 Fellow
Lourdes Vera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Department of Environment and Sustainability at UB. As an environmental sociologist and civic scientist, she works with communities living near oil and gas...
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Stephen Moch

2019 Fellow
Stephen Moch is pursuing a joint Master in Business Administration and Master in Public Policy from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow and George Leadership Fellow with...
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Kelly McClure

2019 Fellow
Kelly McClure (she/her/hers) is an incoming Heyman Public Interest Fellow at the White House, where she will serve as a Special Assistant within the Executive Office of the President. In May of 2021, Kelly will receive her Juris Doctor...
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Nigel Golden

2019 Fellow
Nigel Golden is a Research Scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Center. His interests has ranged in focus from Arctic ecology, justice-informed wildlife and environmental conservation, Decolonizing Methodologies, and STEM education...
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Frances Roberts-Gregory

2019 Fellow
Dr. Frances Roberts-Gregory is a feminist political ecologist and environmental anthropologist. Her activist scholarship interrogates how Gulf Coast Black and Indigenous women within Louisiana's river and bayou parishes navigate...
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Zully Juarez

2019 Fellow
Zully Juarez provides research and analysis of environmental justice policies to Just Solutions Collective. With the direction and input of BIPOC frontline policy practitioners, she works to identify, research, review, and analyze existing...
Fellow Story

Facilitating local energy solutions

In December 2017, Henry Herndon and Clean Energy NH (formerly NH Sustainable Energy Association) were awarded a Switzer Leadership Grant to fund a new position of Local Energy Solutions Director. The purpose of the new position was to expand organizational capacity to provide technical assistance to local energy committees, municipalities, and other energy actors across the state towards implementing clean energy projects.
June 6, 2019
Fellow Story

Johnson on Science Friday segment about climate wars in Washington

A green wave is sweeping through Washington, and it’s picking up Republicans who are eager to share their ideas on clean energy and climate change. Tennessee senator Lamar Alexander has talked about launching a “Manhattan Project for Clean Energy.”
June 5, 2019
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Colleen Callahan: Accelerating the transition to zero-emission transportation by facilitating targeted policy research

Fellow Colleen Callahan is deputy director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, which conducts research and advises civic partners on the design and implementation of policies, plans and programs with a focus on advancing environmental sustainability. Part of Callahan’s job is to make sure the center’s findings get into the hands of the right decision makers.
May 21, 2019
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Stuart Cohen: Ensuring that urban communities that need mobility solutions the most get them

Fellow Stuart Cohen, who recently transitioned to private consulting practice after serving as the Founding Executive Director of TransForm for 21 years, is passionate about ensuring that urban communities that need mobility solutions the most get them.
May 21, 2019