Developed strategies to encourage adoption of distributed solar generation in the commercial and industrial sectors under the Chilean net billing law.

Managed the energy and environment, and sensitive correspondence portfolios.Drafted custom and policy letters, including a selection of responses to the President’s ten nightly letters. Compiled constituent letters on the environment and criminal justice reform for distribution to relevant policy offices.Trained and supervised eight interns per semester and 43 volunteer correspondence coders.

Analyzed and summarize Intended Nationally Determined Contributions to be used by USAID negotiators at the Paris climate change negotiations. Provided technical support for United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Waste Reduction Model (WARM).Assessed state preparedness for climate change through systematic research of adaptation plans, regulations, and programs.

Analyzed constituent casework and coordinated responses with 49 Federal agencies and offices. Maintained constituent correspondence records utilizing Salesforce CRM software. Trained and supervised teams of volunteer correspondence coders. Drafted language for the agriculture policy letter.Compiled correspondence related to the Keystone Pipeline for review by relevant White House policy offices.

Modeled urbanization and land use change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using the SLEUTH model developed by the USGS.Presented research at a workshop in Addis Ababa to city planners, government officials, and ecologists.Contined undergraduate research on the extent of road noise pollution in the continental United States. Analyzed LiDAR data to extract relevant landscape level data in order to improve the accuracy of road noise pollution model.Prepared spatial data for hedonic analysis to determine value of environmental goods in collaboration with an environmental economics professor.

Eos Energy Storage is developing a safe, environmentally benign battery for grid scale energy storage. Energy storage decouples supply of energy from demand, reducing dependence on dirty peaking plants, thereby making the electricity supply chain more efficient and cleaner. Eos' technology will allow intermittent renewables such as wind and solar to be a firm source of energy production.Drafted content and info-graphics for website.Wrote New York State Development grant to fund technology development.Researched market opportunity for multiple small scale energy storage applications.

Collaborated with a professor to conduct research on the extent of the impact of road noise In the United States. Quantified the area affected by various decibel levels of road noise utilizing road network data, sound modeling software, and ArcGIS. Presented research on road noise at the 2013 Association of American Geographers (AAG) Conference in Los Angeles, California. Assisted professors and students in using GIS software for their research.

Assisted and advised students in conducting independent research projects in the ecology course at Carleton College.

Helped students with GIS lab assignments and research projects.

Provided knowledgable aid in selecting cooking supplies at an independently owned kitchen store. Gained customer service, communication, and culinary skills.