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Arlington, Virginia, United States

Arlington, Virginia

• Matrix manager responsible for leading a signature initiative, Climate Innovation 2050, which has engaged nearly 50 leading businesses in a process to identify and advance policies that can accelerate decarbonization.
• Contribute, as part of senior leadership, to the organization’s strategic planning and direction;
• Actively engage U.S. policymakers and other key stakeholders, including key congressional staff to build and deepen C2ES relations and to identify opportunities for C2ES engagement.
• Work in coordination with the executive management team to align staff responsibilities and resources across C2ES programs and initiatives;
• Coordinate with Director of Corporate Engagement to involve members of the C2ES Business Environmental Leadership Council;
• Plan and manage initiatives convening policymakers and stakeholders to examine and promote collaboration on climate/energy issues, including a series of regional roundtables

Arlington, Virginia

• Actively engaged U.S. policymakers and other key stakeholders to build and deepen C2ES relations and to identify opportunities for C2ES engagement. Coordinated with Director of Corporate Engagement to involve members.
• Planned and managed initiatives convening policymakers and stakeholders to examine and promote collaboration on climate/energy issues,
• Helped direct the conception and execution of research and analytical products, including written inputs to multi-stakeholder convenings and published C2ES briefs and reports;
• Contribute, as part of senior leadership, to the organizations strategic planning and direction;
• Supervised Solutions and Outreach Fellow; coordinated other program staff as assigned on a project-by-project basis;
• Contributed to development activities, including developing funding proposals and identifying and communicating with prospective funders;

1225 Eye Street, NW Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20005

• Served as subject matter expert on energy innovation policy and technology development;
• Staff director for the American Energy Innovation Council;
• Worked closely with BPC President and Project Director to develop strategic direction and framework for BPC programmatic efforts involving a dozen high-profile CEOs and executives on the AEIC project, including events.
• Effectively managed and developed AEIC principal relationships, expectations and time,including public events, congressional and administration meetings;
• Worked closely with development team to develop funding proposals and reports;
• Developed communications materials including op-eds, congressional letters, and pressstatements on behalf of principals, often placed or covered in leading national outletsincluding the Washington Post, Bloomberg and.

Washington DC

• Advanced OurEnergyPolicy.org's objective of building a broad-based, non-partisan web site where a substantive dialogue on energy policy issues among approved expert participants takes place;
• Developed and implemented strategies to raise awareness of OurEnergyPolicy.org's mission and activities;
• Worked with industry, advocacy, and non-profit groups to engage them as partners and expert participants in the dialogue at OurEnergyPolicy.org;
• Met with administration and congressional energy staff to brief them on OurEnergyPolicy.org activities and objectives and encourage them to use the dialogue on the site as a resource;
• Developed and implemented strategies, in conjunction with the OurEnergyPolicy.org President, to build the expert participant group and to stimulate the dialogue on all issues;
• Interacted with journalists and other members of the media to publicize the OurEnergyPolicy.org efforts and goals, educating them in the use of the dialogue as a resource.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Initiated first contact and developed communications materials for sponsors and partners for Green Energy Ohio’s EV Tour Del Sol;
• Coordinated technically oriented workshops focused on electric vehicles and their integration into renewable energy sources by successfully engaging stakeholders;
• Successfully developed strategic plan and recruitment strategy built on highlighting mutual interests and fostering communication among stakeholders;

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Coordinated the largest solar tour in the nation, managing relationship with Ohio Department of Development;
• Managed website data input, contributed as staff writer for special issue of GEO Magazine, effectively engaged in social media to augment traditional media engagement strategies;
• Managed tour data collection and compiled data for Ohio Department of Development grant.

M.S, Environmental Policy And Management

Activities and Societies: Three times President's List Honoree.

B.A, History

Activities and Societies: Phi Delta Sigma, Judicial Board Member, Inter Greek Council Independent Study: "The Fusion of Irish Literary.

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