Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Why are we doing this? We’re exercising and pretending to throw wires to connect things. Still wondering why? Check out our video!

Our values

Our purpose is to make electrification simple, measurable, and inevitable. We use the best data and analysis to tell stories of electric transformation. We are outcomes oriented, focused on decarbonizing at the pace the climate crisis demands. And we work to ensure that no household or community is left behind. We know this is the decade that matters, and that a flourishing future depends on the work we do now.

We are here for it.

The rule is simple, but implementing it will be hard: Every appliance we replace from here on out should be electric.

The work will be challenging and fraught. But we have to do it. Because there’s no other way. The great thing is that electrification brings so many benefits—healthier homes, cleaner air, energy bill savings, and revitalized community and country. Why wouldn’t we do this? We hope you’ll join us.

Persistent and Ambitious: We understand the art of negotiation and compromise. But we never let those inevitabilities limit our horizon line. We go big and take risks. We forge pathways, notch victories, and change the calculus of what’s possible.

Outcomes-Driven: The only way to know how close we are to our destination is to count and measure. We identify the market-transforming levers and get to work moving them. We do not wait for someone else to come along.

Clear-Eyed Optimists: The path forward on climate is achievable, and the next decade is an opportunity to do something amazing. We know our why, and have confidence in our ability to achieve it. Demonstrating possibility can overcome paralysis and inertia.

Community-Minded: Our vision demands that everyone, particularly those most affected by climate, economic, and racial injustice, can participate. Individual action is important, but we must create an appealing path that works for everyone.

Founders

  • Saul Griffith
    Saul Griffith

    Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

    Saul Griffith is an engineer and inventor. As Founder and Chief Scientist at Otherlab, an independent R&D lab, he helps government agencies and Fortune 500 companies understand energy infrastructure and deep decarbonization. He’s been a principal investigator and project lead on federally-funded research projects for agencies including NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-e), National Science Foundation and United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He is the author of Electrify and The Big Switch. He was awarded the MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2007.

  • Alex Laskey
    Alex Laskey

    Co-Founder and Executive Chair

    Alex Laskey was the President and Founder of Opower, the global leader in cloud-based software for the utility industry. Under Laskey's leadership, Opower grew from a two-person startup to a publicly traded company whose software is used by more than half of the largest electric and gas utilities in the world. Today, Opower, now a division of Oracle, delivers more than 6 TWh of energy savings per year and helps homeowners save more than $1B per year on their energy bills. Laskey is a Board member of Arcadia and a longtime Director of the Conservation Lands Foundation. He was a founding Commissioner on the Energy Transitions Commission and a board member of Advanced Energy Economy.

  • Ari Matusiak
    Ari Matusiak

    Co-Founder and CEO

    Ari Matusiak is the CEO of Rewiring America. He is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Purpose Venture Group, a social impact incubator building ventures to address climate and economic inequality. He served in the Obama White House as Special Assistant to the President and Director of Private Sector Engagement, where he focused on economic policy related to jobs and competitiveness and oversaw the Administration’s relationship with the private sector. Ari was Chief Strategy Officer at Renovate America, which was the largest residential renewable energy and financing platform in the U.S., financing $3.5 billion of improvements across 150,000 homes. He is Co-Founder of Young Invincibles, a nonprofit delivering economic opportunity to young adults. As the senior executive responsible for strategy and impact investing at the Rhode Island Foundation, he secured over $1 billion of new affordable housing and thousands of new, local jobs. Ari graduated cum laude and as a Public Interest Law Scholar from Georgetown University Law Center, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He lives with his wife, two daughters, and dog in Southern California. Ari is proudly from Wisconsin. His family owns two shares of stock in the nonprofit Green Bay Packers, making him a part-owner of an NFL franchise. Extended bio.

Leadership

  • Cammie Croft
    Cammie Croft

    Chief of Staff

    Cammie Croft is the Chief of Staff at Rewiring America. She has spent two decades at the intersection of advocacy, marketing, and technology scaling organizations and building high-performing teams that love what they do. She is a nationally recognized and award-winning campaign strategist whose work spans the White House, Amnesty International, Khan Academy, the Guardian, and the 2008 Obama Campaign. Cammie worked for the Obama Administration, serving at the White House and Energy Department, building first-of-their-kind digital teams. Cammie comes to Rewiring America from FWD.us, where she served as their Chief Community Officer and Managing Director. Cammie graduated with Distinction from the University of Washington, where her peers selected her into the Student Hall of Fame.

  • Stacey Abrams
    Stacey Abrams

    Senior Counsel

    Stacey Abrams is Senior Counsel to Rewiring America. She is a political leader, small business owner, and New York Times bestselling author. She rose to national prominence in 2018 as the Democratic nominee for Governor of Georgia, winning at the time more votes than any other Democrat in the state’s history and becoming the first Black woman to become the gubernatorial nominee for a major party in the United States. She served 11 years in the Georgia House of Representatives, seven as her party’s leader.

    Abrams has worked throughout her career on issues of voting rights, environmental justice, health equity, and economic empowerment — and for her, electrification merges these lanes of work. Abrams has founded multiple organizations devoted to voting rights, training and hiring young people of color, and tackling issues at both the state and national levels. Abrams launched Fair Fight to ensure every American has a voice in our election system. She created Fair Count to ensure accuracy in the U.S. Census and greater participation in civic engagement. She established the Southern Economic Advancement Project, a public policy initiative to broaden economic power and build equity in the South.

    Abrams is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as a number of nonprofit and corporate boards. She served on former Secretary of State John Kerry’s World War Zero bipartisan coalition on climate change and as an advisor to multiple initiatives to support a cleaner environment, including reducing our carbon footprint and advocating for environmentally just policies. She speaks and writes regularly on global affairs and democracy internationally.

    Abrams received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas and Yale Law School. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, she and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, and were raised in Georgia.

  • Keishaa Austin
    Keishaa Austin

    Head of Community

    Keishaa Austin is the Head of Community at Rewiring America. She joins Rewiring America from the Energy Division at the California Public Utilities Commission, where she served as a Senior Public Utilities Regulatory Analyst in Grid Planning and Reliability. While at the CPUC she led the development of the CPUC’s Distributed Energy Resources’ Action Plan 2.0. Prior to that she worked as a Program Analyst at the Office of the People’s Counsel for the District of Columbia, where she developed engagement and outreach programs focused on Distributed Energy Resources. Before earning her law degree, Keishaa held a variety of roles with media and entertainment companies including Urban One Inc., BET Networks and Capitol Music Group. Keishaa earned her law degree at Texas Southern University and her bachelor’s degree from Howard University. Keishaa is from Los Angeles, CA.

  • Sam Calisch
    Sam Calisch

    Head of Special Projects

    Sam "Mr. Heat Pump" Calisch leads Special Projects at Rewiring America, with a focus on unlocking opportunities and tackling thorny problems on the way to electrifying a billion machines. He is the founder of Elmworks, a start-up developing manufacturing technologies for electrification, and is a Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Cyclotron Road Division through Activate. Sam has run projects with the National Science Foundation, the DOE's Advanced Manufacturing Office, and the DOE's Buildings Technology Office, and recently collaborated with Saul Griffith and Laura Fraser on Electrify, an optimistic vision for a zero carbon future. Sam completed his PhD from MIT in 2019, where he worked with major companies on technology development and taught hands-on STEM in classrooms and community labs. Sam lives in Berkeley, California, but remains a midwesterner at heart.

  • Tom Carden
    Tom Carden

    Head of Engineering

    Tom Carden is the Head of Engineering at Rewiring America, leading the in-house development of software tools to drive electrification. Previously, Tom led teams and built products at Square, offering a suite of tools to start, run and grow a business. In 2021 he led the engineering efforts to open Square’s new bank, Square Financial Services. Before Square, Tom built interactive maps, simulations and visualizations at his own startup Bloom, at San Francisco’s Stamen Design, and at London’s YRM Architects. Bloom’s iOS application Planetary was the first piece of software acquired by Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian National Design Museum. He holds a Masters in Virtual Environments and a Bachelors in Artificial Intelligence. He grew up in the northeast of England and currently lives in Denver, Colorado.

  • Peter Koechley
    Peter Koechley

    Head of Marketing

    Peter Koechley is the Head of Marketing at Rewiring America, charged with spreading the word about the life- and world-changing effects of electrifying everything in your home and transport. From The Onion to MoveOn.org to Upworthy and his own creative strategy consulting business, he has dedicated his career to making important ideas irresistible. Over the past two decades, Peter has edited a satirical newspaper, co-created a TV show, helped elect a president, made many videos go very viral, founded an extremely fast-growing media startup, raised tens of millions of dollars, hired and managed hundreds of people, advised CEOs, ghostwritten books, parented two children and generally tried to make himself useful. A native Wisconsinite, he lives in Brooklyn with his family.

  • Sarah Lazarovic
    Sarah Lazarovic

    Head of Communications, Creative, & Consumer Engagement

    Sarah Lazarovic is the Head of Communications and Brand at Rewiring America. She is an artist, writer, creative director, and marketing strategist.

    As VP of Marketing at Clean Prosperity, Sarah increased public support for carbon pricing and stronger climate policy. In 2021 she launched Talk Climate to Me, a free climate education experience that has trained thousands of women across NorthAmerica.

    In 2014, her book A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy, a visual essay about consumerism, was published by Penguin. She writes a sustainability column for Yes! Magazine and her climate comics and charts appear all over the world.

    Sarah has created award-winning films for Canada’s National Film Board and been an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre. In 2015, she was awarded a Massey Fellowship to study behavioral science and environmental policy at the University of Toronto. Sarah has taught communications and design at Humber College and frequently gives climate communications talks.

  • Tom Mercer
    Tom Mercer

    Head of Product

    Tom Mercer is the Head of Product at Rewiring America, responsible for building software tools that will help people and communities accelerate their electrification progress. He is also responsible for building the team to deliver on that vision. Prior to joining RA, Tom was Chief Product Officer for Remix, a startup that built design software to allow cities and transit agencies to plan better streets and transit. In 2021, Remix was acquired by Via, a leading TransitTech company. Before Remix, Tom led Product Management for Opower, where he led development of a new demand response product line and the platform that delivered hundreds of millions of personalized energy reports to utility customers every year. Opower was acquired by Oracle in 2016.

    In his spare time, Tom is most likely to be found in his garden, on a hiking trail, on a bike, or coaching youth baseball. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Tom has an MBA and Master’s in Environment and Resources from Stanford and earned a BA in Russian History and Literature from Harvard.

  • Stephen Pantano
    Stephen Pantano

    Head of Research & Policy

    Steve Pantano is the Head of Research at Rewiring America, where he leads efforts to build and share comprehensive working knowledge of how to replace more than one billion fossil fuel devices with clean electric alternatives. For the past fifteen years Steve worked with CLASP and ICF International to develop policy, market development programs, research, and technical analysis aimed at maximizing the climate benefits that can be achieved with energy efficient appliances and equipment. He spent years before that tinkering with and testing everything from Hydrogen fuel cells to Space Shuttle hardware. He has a Master of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from The Johns Hopkins University.

  • Nicole Staple
    Nicole Staple

    Head of Market Partnerships

    Nicole Staple is Head of Market Partnerships and previously helped drive internal growth initiatives at Rewiring America. She previously co-founded Brideside, a direct-to-consumer retailer, leading the company as CEO and growing from concept to national ecommerce platform with six retail stores. Under her leadership, Brideside became one of the largest woman-owned venture businesses in Chicago. Nicole has also held positions as a venture capital investor and a healthcare investment banker. Nicole is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she was a varsity lacrosse player, and has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She lives outside of Los Angeles in Topanga Canyon.

  • Leah Stokes
    Leah Stokes

    Sr. Policy Counsel

    Leah Stokes is Rewiring America's Senior Policy Counsel. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Leah’s book, Short Circuiting Policy, examines the role that utilities have played in promoting climate denial and rolling back clean energy laws. It was named the Best Energy Book of 2020 by the American Energy Society, listed as a top 5 climate book from 2020 by The New York Times, and won 3 awards from the American Political Science Association. Leah’s academic research has been published in top journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Nature Energy, Energy Policy, and Environmental Science & Technology. Leah completed her PhD in Public Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning’s Environmental Policy & Planning group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Chief of Staff

    Chief of Staff
  • Hannah Chai
    Hannah Chai

    Director of People & Culture

    Hannah Chai is the Director of People & Culture at Rewiring America. She joins the team after years in the start-up space. Prioritizing the employee and candidate experience, she’s helped many organizations build out their company strategies. Hannah’s diverse background across all areas of the people function, combined with her fascination for data and over a decade operationalizing processes, strengthens her ability to create and drive innovative initiatives across the business. As a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging advocate, she leads with empathy and prioritizes DEIB in every initiative and strategy. Hannah is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and calls Philadelphia her original home.

  • Amy LaThanh
    Amy LaThanh

    Deputy Chief of Staff

    Amy LaThanh is Deputy Chief of Staff at Rewiring America.

    Prior to Rewiring America, Amy held the role of Chief of Staff & Head of Project Management, Community Department at FWD.us, a bipartisan political advocacy group focused on immigration and criminal justice reform. She helped build the digital capabilities of FWD.us from a team of five into a team of over twenty specialists spanning technology, creative, audience, and digital campaigns teams.

    Amy began her career in the Bay Area tech sector in social media and social games. She held product management roles at Bebo, Kabam, and MTV Games, helping to establish and shape the social games economy during the height of social gaming.

    Amy attended California Polytechnic University at Pomona, where she earned a degree in History. In her off hours, she loves keeping up with Russian-U.S. politics (way before it was cool), getting out the vote in key states, and spending time with her husband, two rambunctious boys, and kinda-instafamous corgi @skycorgisf.

  • Christin Pelgrum
    Christin Pelgrum

    Operations and Administrative Manager

    Christin Pelgrum is the Operations + Administrative Manager at Rewiring America. Over the course of her career, Christin has taught micro- and macroeconomics at her alma mater, led data analytics and reporting for an economic development nonprofit, as well as served as the EA to executives of Silicon Valley tech startups and venture capital firms. She earned both her undergraduate degree in Business Administration and her Master degree in Applied Economics from Ohio University. She lives with her husband, three children and Portuguese Water Dog in Issaquah, Washington where she spends her free time exploring the great outdoors.

Communications, Creative, and Consumer Engagement

    Communications
  • Alex Amend
    Alex Amend

    Communications Director

    Alex Amend is Director of Communications at Rewiring America. He has over a decade of experience leading teams and executing communications strategy for mission-driven organizations including the Sierra Club and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, he was communications director for a startup dedicated to helping governments, NGOs and tech companies disrupt online harms. He lives in rural New Mexico with his wife and daughter and serves as a volunteer firefighter.

  • Jessica Dulaney
    Jessica Dulaney

    Social Media Manager

    Jessica Dulaney is the Social Media Manager at Rewiring America. Previously, she led communications strategies for billion-dollar federal agencies focused on infrastructure, the environment, and research and development. She's also developed strategies and content to help nonprofits communicate about issues like climate justice, children's rights, voting rights, and immigration. Jessica graduated from Mississippi State University's Shackouls Honors College with a bachelor's degree in English.

  • Laura Fraser
    Laura Fraser

    Writer

    Laura Fraser is the Wordsmith of the Communications team at Rewiring America. She is an award-winning journalist and essayist whose work has been featured in numerous national publications and anthologies. She is the author of four nonfiction books, including the New York Times-bestselling memoir An Italian Affair. She has collaborated with several authors on their books, including Rewiring America founder Saul Griffith’s Electrify (MIT Press). She is also a mentor for the OpEd Project and was founder and Editorial Director of the feminist digital press Shebooks. She is a long-time San Franciscan, a devoted salsa dancer, and has kept a list of all the books she’s read since she was 12. Find her at laurafraser.com.

  • Alana Murphy
    Alana Murphy

    Communications Associate

    Alana Murphy is Communications Associate at Rewiring America. Alana joins the Rewiring Team with experience in both federal and state-level electoral campaigns as well as a variety of issue areas from environmental policy to reproductive rights. Most recently, Alana served as a Political Communications Associate at Arc Initiatives, where she provided strategic media relations support to a range of progressive clients. Alana is a New Jersey native and holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Fordham University.

  • Creative
  • Geneviève Biloski
    Geneviève Biloski

    Creative Director

    Geneviève is the Creative Director at Rewiring America. She’s an award-winning multidisciplinary designer and art director who has worked for major National media companies and a health tech startup. She was previously Senior Director of Visual Design at Figure 1, a platform where healthcare professionals share and collaborate on medical cases globally. She has also done work for multiple non-profits supporting climate, political and educational initiatives. Her design experience extends widely, from print, digital, branding, illustration, motion and video. She currently lives east of Toronto, where she enjoys the winters snowboarding with her family.

  • Marketing
  • Brock Benefiel
    Brock Benefiel

    Content Partnerships Lead

    Brock Benefiel is the Content Partnerships Lead at Rewiring America. He is the co-host of The Climate Pod, a leading climate change podcast. He joins Rewiring America from Octopus Energy, a global renewable energy supplier, where he served as Digital Marketing Executive for the United States. Prior to that, he served as Director of Marketing for renewable energy supplier Hero Power, Audience Development Manager for Angi, and advised a number of startups and multinational technology companies. Brock is a graduate of Butler University, where he earned a degree in journalism, and an alumni of the Orr Entrepreneurial Fellowship in Indianapolis.

  • Gabriela Hills
    Gabriela Hills

    Newsletter Editor

    Gabriela Hills is the Newsletters Editor at Rewiring America. She is a writer and editor with over 10 years of experience in Operations and Supply Chain. With stopovers in craft beer, medically-tailored meals, and industrial battery chargers, Gaby excels at writing for a wide range of audiences. Her favorite audience is her daughter and she enjoys workshopping different character voices at storytime with varied success (tough crowd). She goes by Gaby to those who’ve had at least one interaction with her - if you’re reading this bio, that counts. Cheers!

  • Ren Little
    Ren Little

    Ren Little is an Email Analyst at Rewiring America. He has been an #emailgeek for 5 years and made the transitioning from marketing to campaigning 2 years ago, using my email powers for good. Ren is a California native and in his spare time you can catch him trying to fit as many of his 12 pets as he can on his lap - 7 dogs, 1 cat, and 4 reptiles.

  • Sam Weber
    Sam Weber

    Sr. Director, Marketing Campaigns & Digital

    Sam Weber is the Senior Director of Marketing Campaigns and Digital at Rewiring America. Before joining Rewiring America, he built and led the marketing and support teams at Fyn, a crypto tax accounting platform. Previously, Sam was the Global Customer Marketing Manager at technology company Owl Labs, and Head of Marketing at a professional organization CMX where he led marketing and sales through a successful acquisition by Bevy Labs. With a decade of experience building marketing orgs, he’s excited to move the world to an electrified future. Sam graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology. When he’s not building marketing campaigns, you can usually find Sam in the kitchen cooking up some Korean food or exploring the world with his family.

  • Strategy & Project Management
  • Sam Marx
    Sam Marx

    Sr. Project Manager

    Sam Marx is the Senior Project Manager for the Communications team at Rewiring America. He has spent more than a decade in the nonprofit digital communications and organizing sector, working with hundreds of organizations of all sizes to tackle issues including environmental justice, healthcare, civil rights, housing access, racial equity, and gender equity. Sam earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Oregon and his master’s degree in International Economic Relations at American University’s School of International Service in Washington, DC. He also sits on the board of directors for The Small Press Expo, the country’s largest independent comics and cartooning festival, held annually in Bethesda, MD. He is based in Portland, OR. When not obsessing about organization, Sam likes to watch 80s B-movies and eat sandwiches.

Market Transformation

    Data Science
  • Erik Shilts
    Erik Shilts

    Sr. Director of Data Science

    Erik is the Senior Director of Data Science at Rewiring America. He previously led data science and analytics teams at Rally Health, the digital arm of UnitedHealth Group, and at Microsoft. Prior to this, Erik was an early member of Opower’s analytics and data science teams where he measured energy savings and built models of household energy use to find further savings opportunities. A Virginia native who spent the last nine years in San Francisco, Erik currently lives in Richmond, VA where he works with local climate leaders to electrify the city.

  • Miki Verma
    Miki Verma

    Research Associate

    Miki Verma is a member of the Research Team at Rewiring America. Miki joined Rewiring from Stanford’s Regulation Evaluation and Governance Lab, where she conducted research on modeling river pollutants in agriculturally dense regions. Prior to this, she was a research data scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Cyber Security Research Group. She received an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and a BS in Applied and Computational Math Sciences from the University of Washington. Miki is a Chicago native currently living in Knoxville, TN, where she spends time away from her computer hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains and the Cumberland Plateau.

  • Talor Gruenwald
    Talor Gruenwald

    Research Associate

    Talor Gruenwald is a Research Associate at Rewiring America, where he conducts quantitative analyses evaluating the economic, emissions, health, air quality, and equity implications of building electrification policies. Prior to Rewiring America, Talor worked at RMI on the Carbon-Free Buildings team, where he contributed to a number of research and analysis efforts aimed at quantifying the benefits of building electrification measures. These included several reports on the greenhouse gas emissions impacts of specific building electrification measures in states like New York and Washington, in-depth analysis of the effects of burning fossil fuels in buildings on neighborhood-level air quality, and estimation of the childhood asthma burden associated with gas stoves. Talor has a master’s in international affairs from UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy in strategy, where he focused on applied statistics and energy policy. Talor holds bachelor’s degrees in international relations and Spanish from SUNY Geneseo. Talor currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

  • Wael Kanj
    Wael Kanj

    Research Associate

  • General
  • Carla Burns
    Carla Burns

    Research Associate

    Carla Burns is a part of the Research team at Rewiring America, where she conducts research to empower Americans to electrify their homes and communities. Carla joins Rewiring America from the Environmental Working Group where she served as Director and managed consumer-facing databases and published a variety of environmental and public health content. Prior to that, she provided research and project management support for energy efficiency and sustainability initiatives. Carla received her bachelor’s degree in Earth & Environmental Science and master’s degree in Ecotoxicology.

  • Policy
  • Camila Thorndike
    Camila Thorndike

    Policy Programs Director

    Camila Thorndike is Director of Policy Programs at Rewiring America. She joins the team after working on key elements of the Inflation Reduction Act as a Legislative Assistant to Senator Sanders. Prior to the Hill, Camila co-founded the national nonprofit Our Climate; led the campaign that passed 100% renewable electricity in the District of Columbia; worked for the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution; and led outreach for a regional land use planning process in Arizona. Originally from southern Oregon, Camila holds a B.A. from Whitman College and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. Her lifelong commitment to equitable climate action has been honored with the Udall Scholarship, Sitka Fellowship, Mic 50, Grist 50, D.C. Environmental Network Award, HKS Bacon Environmental Fellowship, and HKS Littauer Award.

  • Michael Hernandez
    Michael Hernandez

    New York Policy Director

    Michael Hernandez is the New York Policy Director for Rewiring America, he leads our efforts to influence state policy initiatives to accelerate the policy transition to demand-side electrification as the most tangible and common sense strategy for addressing the climate crisis. As the Assistant Secretary for Program & Policy at the New York State Assembly, Michael was a lead negotiator for the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and was responsible for facilitating the legislative process for the Energy, Environmental Conservation, Transportation and Corporations legislative committees. Michael was also a lead negotiator for the laws enacting Congestion Pricing in Manhattan and the creation of the Gateway Commission. Michael was the Director of Intergovernmental Relations at the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) where he facilitated the coordination of New York State’s Capital program by resolving any delays and/or inefficiencies between governmental entities in the financing and construction of the State’s infrastructure. Prior to working at the Assembly, Michael was a practicing attorney in New York City and advocate for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG). Michael was awarded Common Cause’s I Love an Ethical New York honor in 2003 for his actions to ensure transparency at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). Michael grew up bi-coastal spending time in New York City and Los Angeles and enjoys hiking, biking and birding.

  • Jamal Lewis
    Jamal Lewis

    Director of Policy Partnerships and Equitable Electrification

    Jamal is the Director of Policy Partnerships and Equitable Electrification for Rewiring America. Previously, he led the energy and climate initiatives at Green & Healthy Homes Initiative and worked with states and localities across the country to advance electrification, healthy housing, and energy efficiency programs and policies. He has multiple publications outlining pathways to promoting equity by retrofitting our existing housing stock to be healthy, energy-efficient, all-electric, and affordable. He is a Young, Gifted, & Green 40 under 40 award recipient for his leadership in Environmental Justice.

    Jamal has an MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, a BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a certificate from the Fall 2021 DC Cohort of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute.

  • Sage Briscoe
    Sage Briscoe

    Federal Policy Manager

    Sage Briscoe is the Federal Senior Policy Manager for Implementation at Rewiring America, where she strategizes ways to optimize the implementation of federal policy to maximize electrification. Sage joins Rewiring after developing energy and climate policy as a Legislative Fellow on Senator Amy Klobuchar’s staff. Prior to her time on the Hill, she spent the first half of her career as a federal employee, including three years in England as a Senior Technical Liaison to the UK. Sage holds a bachelors in mathematics from Tulane University and a masters in mathematics from University of Michigan.

  • Noah Goldmann
    Noah Goldmann

    Analyst

    Noah Goldmann is a Policy Analyst at Rewiring America, where he supports the team's policy leadership and coalitional engagement. Before joining Rewiring America, Noah managed federal infrastructure policy at BlocPower. He also wrote and published a white paper, Leading with Equity and Justice in the Clean Energy Transition, on equitable building electrification in partnership with Green & Healthy Homes Initiative. Noah studied Mathematics and Environmental Policy at Syracuse University, during which he took a semester off to field organize on the 2020 election. If dressing up as a heat pump will help solve the climate crisis, he can't wait to do it.

  • Amanda Sachs
    Amanda Sachs

    Policy Analyst

    Amanda Sachs is a Policy Analyst at Rewiring America, where she supports partner collaborations and helps bring policy research and initiatives to fruition. Previously, she analyzed New York State climate legislation and watchdogged the state’s Climate Law implementation with Environmental Advocates NY. Amanda holds a BA in Political Science from SUNY Purchase and an MS in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her partner and two cats Avocato and Gary.

  • Serena Campas
    Serena Campas

    Policy Analyst

    Before joining Rewiring America, Serena worked as a Policy and Government Relations director for an Arizona state agency. Serena is passionate about policy at all levels, and received her Masters in Public Administration from the University of Washington in 2018. Though her background is in education policy, she was ecstatic to move into the clean energy policy realm with Rewiring America because electrification and clean energy makes a positive impact on lives all over the world. Serena is committed to using her experience and education to create real change and drive electrification for all.

  • Charles Hua
    Charles Hua

    Policy Analyst

    Charles Hua is a Policy Analyst at Rewiring America. Previously, Charles supported clean energy investment efforts with Generate Capital, developed clean energy projects with Avangrid, and analyzed climate policies with Clean Energy States Alliance. While in college, Charles helped develop and write his university’s sustainability plan, served on its sustainability committee, and organized energy conferences. He also published research on advancing environmental justice through state climate action, equity outcomes of public utilities commissions, the effectiveness of renewable portfolio standards, and the role of technological innovation in the energy transition. Charles has advised Fortune 500 companies and international NGOs on sustainability issues and serves on the Board of Directors for environmental nonprofits Slipstream, Energy News Network, and Clean Wisconsin. Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Charles organized a campaign that successfully petitioned his school district to become the largest in the U.S. at the time with a 100% renewable energy commitment. For his work, Charles has been recognized by the White House and U.S. Department of Education as a 2018 U.S. Presidential Scholar and as an Energy News Network 40 Under 40 honoree. Charles holds an A.B. in Statistics and Mathematics from Harvard College.

  • Research
  • Cora Wyent
    Cora Wyent

    Research Associate

    Cora Wyent is a Research Associate at Rewiring America, where she is conducting research and analysis to enable rapid electrification of everything in the economy. Prior to Rewiring America, she completed her PhD in Physics at Caltech, where she studied new materials for ultrathin solar cells and performed technoeconomic analysis of new photovoltaic and carbon capture technologies. She got excited about electrification as a cost-effective, job-creating, and equitable climate solution through representing the Sunrise Movement Los Angeles on the SoCal Building Electrification Coalition. Cora received her bachelor’s degree in Physics from UNC Chapel Hill. She is from the Bay Area, and currently lives in Los Angeles with her wife and their cat.

  • Special Projects
  • Sam Calisch
    Sam Calisch

    Head of Special Projects

    Sam "Mr. Heat Pump" Calisch leads Special Projects at Rewiring America, with a focus on unlocking opportunities and tackling thorny problems on the way to electrifying a billion machines. He is the founder of Elmworks, a start-up developing manufacturing technologies for electrification, and is a Research Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s Cyclotron Road Division through Activate. Sam has run projects with the National Science Foundation, the DOE's Advanced Manufacturing Office, and the DOE's Buildings Technology Office, and recently collaborated with Saul Griffith and Laura Fraser on Electrify, an optimistic vision for a zero carbon future. Sam completed his PhD from MIT in 2019, where he worked with major companies on technology development and taught hands-on STEM in classrooms and community labs. Sam lives in Berkeley, California, but remains a midwesterner at heart.

  • Joel Rosenberg
    Joel Rosenberg

    Program Manager, Special Projects

    Joel Rosenberg is part of the Special Projects team at Rewiring America. He is an educator and entrepreneur focused on helping solve the climate crisis for his elementary-age daughter, his amazing partner, and the future of everyone on the planet. He has worked on science and engineering education — especially how to teach about energy systems — at the Museum of Science, Boston; the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany; the Lawrence Hall of Science at U.C. Berkeley; Maker Media; and Otherlab. He is also the co-founder of 3D Fab Light, an industrial laser cutter company. Joel has a mechanical engineering degree from MIT, and a master’s from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Network

    Community
  • Kelsey Kane-Ritsch
    Kelsey Kane-Ritsch

    Program Manager

    Kelsey Kane-Ritsch is the Program Manager for the Partnerships and Engagement team at Rewiring America. She joins the team from the Natural Resources Defense Council where she spent the last five years working with a range of multidisciplinary teams including the Energy Efficiency for All project, the Science Center, and the Oceans division. Most recently, she served as Program Coordinator in the Resilient Communities division where she helped advance programs and policies in support of energy efficiency and electrification. Kelsey has also worked as the Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator at D&R Greenway Land Trust where she coordinated coalition efforts and advanced projects promoting access to nature. Kelsey has a BA from Princeton University and an MS from Columbia University. She lives in NYC but misses California winters.

  •  Katie Ingebretson
    Katie Ingebretson

    Communities

    Katie Ingebretson supports the Communities Team. She previously worked in politics, serving on both Obama campaigns, from field operations in the Iowa caucuses to Deputy Battleground States Director for the reelection. She was a political appointee during the first term of the Obama Administration at the Pentagon, where she was awarded the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Achievement. She has since worked on efforts spanning entertainment and media, education and green energy.

    She is a proud native of the panhandle of Texas, though currently resides in Pasadena in California.

  • Luis Aguirre-Torres
    Luis Aguirre-Torres

    Senior Adviser

    Luis Aguirre-Torres is a senior adviser at Rewiring America, where he focuses on identifying and articulating community-scale electrification projects. Prior to joining Rewiring America, he was the director of sustainability for the City of Ithaca, NY, where he led the design and implementation of the first city-scale building electrification program in the US. He is a member of the Senior Executive Group for Net Zero Carbon Cities at the World Economic Forum, and co-chair of the New York State Climate Impacts Assessment, for Society and Economy. He holds a first degree in computer engineering, a masters in computer science and a PhD in electronic and electrical engineering from University College London. He also holds certificates in Financing and Deploying Clean Energy, from Yale University, and Systems Thinking, from Cornell University.

  • Rahul Young
    Rahul Young

    Director of Local Engagement

    Rahul Young is the Director of Local Engagement at Rewiring America, where he leads the Mayors & Municipal Leaders for Electrification coalition within the Partnerships and Engagement team. Rahul has spent over twenty-five years working at the intersection of climate change and local government in for-profit, non-profit, and municipal roles. He was the City of Berkeley, California’s first Green Building Coordinator. He then spent ten years at ICF International building a corporate sustainability program, and designing and managing energy efficiency programs for cities and utilities. More recently, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Tides, and the Deputy Director at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Rahul has an MS in Energy Engineering and a BA in Public Policy from Stanford University. He was born in Indiana, grew up in New Jersey, and now lives in San Francisco with his partner, their two daughters, and their cat Koko. Rahul has a deep and abiding love for low-talent karaoke and dragging his family along on epic hikes up beautiful mountains around the world.

  • Investment
  • Lindsey Streeter
    Lindsey Streeter

    Director of Investment

    Lindsey is the Director of Investment at Rewiring America where she raises funds to advance the organization’s critical mission to electrify everything. She is a seasoned professional fundraiser, strategist, and advocate for social and climate justice. Most recently, she worked as the Managing Director of Major Gifts at the Sierra Club where she secured investments to support the programming of the organization and cultivated relationships with key major donors and institutional funders. Her past work experience also includes raising funds for Barack Obama’s 2012 Presidential Campaign, Kiva Microloans, as well as Sungevity Solar -- a mission aligned solar company. She served on the Boards of several reputable organizations, including UN Women and Her Footprints, an initiative aiming to empower young women of color through outdoor excursions.

    Lindsey holds a MPA in Urban Social Policy from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and a BA from Occidental College. She currently lives in Brooklyn, New York, but will always be a California girl at heart.

  • Market Partnerships
  • Taylor Halverson
    Taylor Halverson

    Private Sector Manager

    Taylor is the Private Sector Outreach & Partnerships Manager at Rewiring America focusing on recruitment, engagement, and strategy for the CEOs for Electrification Coalition. Taylor joins RA from Arcadia, a clean tech company where she helped launch and scale the commercial community solar line of business, personally subscribing over 60 MW of community solar capacity. Prior to Arcadia, she spent four years building strategic partnerships with Fortune 500 companies to promote health, wellness, and sustainability in K-12 classrooms. She started her career working for US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand in Washington, DC.

    Originally from Northern California, Taylor currently lives in the mountains of Vermont with her partner and their yellow lab, Finn. She is a graduate of California Lutheran University, is passionate about DEI, and loves to cook (and talk about cooking) delicious vegetarian and vegan food.

  • Ian Magruder
    Ian Magruder

    Private Sector Outreach & Partnerships Director

    Ian Magruder is the Director of Private Sector Outreach and Engagement at Rewiring America, where he leads the growth of the CEOs for Electrification coalition within the Partnerships and Engagement team. Prior to joining Rewiring America, Ian spent a decade leading partnerships and business development for mission-driven startups Landed and Organizer. At Landed he led the team that built 300+ employer partnerships, including closing deals with many of the nation’s largest universities, hospitals, school districts, and local governments. Early in his career, Ian worked in electoral campaigns, including Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. Ian has also served as a leader in many civic organizations, including as Co-Director of the San Francisco chapter of the New Leaders Council, Political Partner with the Truman National Security Project, and as a member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). He graduated magna cum laude from UC Berkeley and was a Public Policy and International Affairs Fellow at Princeton University's of Public and International Affairs. Ian was born and raised in Santa Cruz, CA and still holds a penchant for occasional surfing, beach volleyball, hiking in redwood forests, and enjoying the natural beauty of the Central Coast.

Product

    Product
  • Chell Zeng
    Chell Zeng

    Sr. Director, Product Design

    Chell Zeng is the Senior Director, Product Design at Rewiring America. She joins Rewiring America from FWD.us, a political advocacy organization focusing on immigration policy reform and criminal justice reform, where she served as the Design Director. Prior to that, she was the Chief Designer at a prominent nonprofit cultural and arts institution. As a visual & UX designer, Chell believes that design is a strategy, and empathy is at the core of every phase of the process. She received her bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication from Tsinghua University, Beijing and a master’s degree in Interaction Design from California College of Arts. In 2016, Chell’s interactive animal-rights project was awarded the Red Dot Award in Communication Design. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her two adorable kittens, Time and Space.

Advisors

  • Donnel Baird
    Donnel Baird

    Donnel Baird is the founder of BlocPower, a startup that markets, finances and installs solar and energy efficiency technology to help houses of worship, non-profits, small businesses and multifamily projects slash their energy costs. Donnel spent three years as a community organizer in Brooklyn and one year as a voter contact director for Obama For America. He managed a national Change to Win/LIUNA campaign to leverage Dept. of Energy efficiency financing to create green construction jobs for out of work populations. He partnered with the Washington Interfaith Network to generate a $100m government investment in underserved communities in the District of Columbia. Donnel has a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A from Columbia Business School. BlocPower is backed by Kapor Capital and Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Kiran Bhatraju
    Kiran Bhatraju

    Kiran Bhatraju is the Co-Founder & CEO of Arcadia, the first nationwide renewable energy company. Bhatraju created Arcadia with the mission to change the way America consumes energy – from fossil fuels to renewables. Previously, Bhatraju was a founder of American Efficient, an energy efficiency technology company, and worked as a policy aide on Capitol Hill. He is on the board of the Environmental Voter Project and is a published author.

  • Anne Evens
    Anne Evens

    Anne Evens is the Chief Executive Officer of Elevate, a nonprofit organization dedicated to designing and implementing efficiency programs that lower costs, protect the environment, and ensure the benefits of energy efficiency, demand response and renewables reach those who need them most. Ms. Evens has worked in energy efficiency and affordable housing for twenty years in both the nonprofit and governmental sectors in the U.S. and in southern Africa. Evens sits on the board of the National Housing Trust, the Executive Committee of the Board of the National Center for Healthy Housing and she’s an alumnus of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. In addition, she acted as lead researcher on the Chicago Climate Action Plan and Regional Energy Plan for the Chicago Metro Agency for Planning (CMAP).

  • Mike Fishman
    Mike Fishman

    Mike Fishman is the former Secretary-Treasurer of Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Before serving SEIU at the national level, Mike served four terms as President of SEIU Local 32BJ, the largest property service union in the country representing 140,000 doormen, cleaners, security officers, school, and public workers. Mike began his involvement in labor as a house builder and member of the carpenter’s union. As President of 32BJ, Mike started the Green Supers Program to help provide New York City metropolitan area with a professional building service workforce capable of reducing energy use, conserving water, saving money, and providing a cleaner and healthier building to live in. Mike continued his work to help build a green economy as a founding officer of Climate Jobs New York (CJNY). Mike now serves as President and Executive Director of Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJNRC).

  • Jacob Harold
    Jacob Harold

    Jacob Harold is the Executive Vice President of Candid, the data platform for civil society. Candid was formed by the merger of GuideStar—where Harold served as CEO—with the Foundation Center. At GuideStar, he oversaw a tripling of GuideStar’s reach, a new focus on programmatic data, and partnerships with organizations ranging from Google and the Gates Foundation. Harold came to GuideStar from the Hewlett Foundation where he managed $30 million in grants to build a 21st century infrastructure for smart giving. Earlier in his career, he worked as a strategy consultant at Bridgespan and a climate change campaigner/strategist with the Packard Foundation, Rainforest Action Network and Greenpeace. Harold has been named to the Nonprofit Times Power and Influence Top 50 seven times. Harold earned an AB summa cum laude from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford. His essays on climate change and philanthropic strategy have been used as course materials at Stanford, Duke, Harvard, Oxford, and Tsinghua. Harold has further training from Green Corps, Bain, Santa Fe Institute, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Harold is from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where his parents led community-based nonprofit organizations. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two sons.

  • Lynn Jurich
    Lynn Jurich

    Lynn Jurich is Co-Executive Chair and Co-Founder of Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage, and energy services company. Today with more than $3 billion in installed solar systems across 22 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, Sunrun is revolutionizing how consumers generate and store electricity using rechargeable home solar and batteries. Before Sunrun, Lynn worked at Summit Partners, whereas one of few female venture capitalists, she completed investments with an aggregate market value of over $900 million in the financial services and technology sectors. Lynn was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2013 and Forbes’ Women to Watch in 2015. Lynn earned her BS in Science, Technology and Society and MBA from Stanford University. Lynn serves on the Board of Directors of Generate Capital and is a member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council. In her free time, Lynn brings her competitive spirit to the tennis court and nurtures her appreciation of nature with long walks. As a mom, she also loves spending time with her children and husband.

  • Igor Kofman
    Igor Kofman

    Igor Kofman is the founder and CEO of Act Now Coalition, a non-profit focused on helping policy makers and individuals make the best data-driven decisions. Previously, he was the founder and CTO of the Y-Combinator document collaboration company Hackpad which was acquired by Dropbox and became Dropbox Paper. Igor was among the early engineers and technical leaders at YouTube and built software products at Google and Microsoft.

  • Lori Lodes
    Lori Lodes

    Lori Lodes is Executive Director and co-founder of Climate Power, an independent strategic communications and paid media operation focused on building the political will and public support for bold climate action. Previously, Lori was Director of Corporate Communications for Apple, overseeing public relations for its corporate values; including the environment, supplier responsibility and job creation. Before heading to Silicon Valley, Lori's work focused on developing strategic campaigns at the nexus of policy, politics and communications. Over the last two decades, Lori has been at the center of key national and state progressive fights, from the passage, implementation and defense of the Affordable Care Act to the Kavanaugh confirmation to raising the minimum wage to gun violence prevention. Lori served as Director of Communications at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for President Obama, where she led outreach and public education for HealthCare.gov. She also served as Deputy Communications Director for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.

  • Jonathan Scott
    Jonathan Scott

    Jonathan Scott is a renowned designer and builder and co-host/co-executive producer of the Emmy nominated television series Property Brothers which reaches 80 million viewers annually in the US and broadcasts in over 160 countries/territories around the globe. He is co-founder of Scott Brothers Entertainment and Scott Brothers Global through which he manufactures more than ten thousand products for the home. Having built or renovated more than 500 homes during his career, his passion for helping families naturally led him to become an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity as a Habitat Humanitarian, the international housing organization’s highest honor. Shortly after co-authoring the e-book “Knowledge is Power” with Vice President Al Gore and his NGO, Climate Reality, Jonathan made his directorial debut with the PBS documentary “Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip” which was a deep dive into the war being waged against the renewable energy industry by fossil fuel utilities. Social responsibility is deeply engrained in Jonathan’s being and he’s simply keeping a childhood promise to his parents to try his best to make this world a better place.

  • Jenna Tatum
    Jenna Tatum

    Jenna Tatum is the Director of the Building Electrification Institute, an organization that provides cities with the knowledge, tools, and resources they need to accelerate an equitable transition away from fossil fuels in buildings. Jenna previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, where she oversaw the implementation of New York City’s energy efficiency programs, managed the building sector analysis for the City’s Roadmap to 80x50 report, and led development of the city’s building electrification strategy. Prior to the NYC Mayor’s Office, Jenna served as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and worked on several political campaigns. Jenna holds a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from UCLA.

  • Adam Zurofsky
    Adam Zurofsky

    Adam Zurofsky is a senior policy advisor to Rewiring America. He was, until 2019, the Director of State Policy and Agency Management for the State of New York. In that capacity, Adam led the development and implementation of all major policy initiatives for New York State and was responsible for strategic management of the State’s executive agencies and authorities and their more than 150,000 employees. Prior to that, Adam served as Deputy Secretary for Energy and Finance for the State of New York where he directly oversaw all policy and regulatory aspects of New York State's energy, climate, and finance portfolios. Among other things, Adam was responsible for leading implementation of the State's climate agenda, including establishing the U.S. Climate Alliance of 25 states and territories committed to upholding the Paris Climate Accords and the decarbonization of the over $200 billion New York Common Retirement Fund. Prior to his time in government, Adam was a partner in the law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel, LLP, where he represented companies and boards of directors in a variety of litigation, regulatory, and governance matters. He currently teaches climate policy at Columbia University's SIPA school and has taught, published, and lectured on topics ranging from corporate purpose to the clean energy transition in various capacities over the course of his career. Adam holds an A.B. with honors in political science from Stanford University and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He lives in New York City with his wife, three children, and their dog.

Past Advisors

  • Adrienne Harris
    Adrienne Harris

    Adrienne Harris was an advisor until September when she became Acting Superintendent for New York State Department of Financial Services. She is a professor of practice at the University of Michigan. The former chief business development officer and general counsel at States Title, Inc., she previously served as special assistant for economic policy to President Obama at the White House National Economic Council, focusing on issues including financial reform, financial technology, and housing finance reform. Harris also served as senior advisor to the Deputy Secretary in the U.S. Department of Treasury, and represented financial institutions and other corporations as an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. She also sits on the Board of Directors of the Financial Health Network and of Homie, a prop-tech company. She is an advisor to several fintech and prop-tech companies. Harris earned her JD from Columbia Law School, her MBA with specializations in economics and management from New York University, and her BA from Georgetown University.

  • John Rhodes
    John Rhodes

    John Rhodes was an advisor until August 2021 when he became Special Assistant to President Biden for Climate Policy. He was Chair of the New York’s Public Service Commission until February 2021, after previously serving as Chief Executive Officer of NYSERDA, New York’s clean energy agency. In these roles, he played a leading part in developing and implementing New York’s nation-leading clean energy policies.

Careers

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