Meet the team
We’re creative communicators, policy savants, electric educators, able fundraisers, thoughtful engineers, engaged researchers, masterly marketers, dancing heat pumps, and more. We care about culture, connection, community, and climate. We want to electrify everything for everyone. And have fun doing it.
Our Founders
Ari Matusiak
Founder, President, and CEO
Ari Matusiak is co-founder, president and CEO of Rewiring America, a national climate solutions nonprofit working to electrify homes, businesses, and communities, and founder and co-chair of Power Forward Communities, a national coalition awarded $2 billion from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to decarbonize and reinvest in American households.
Alex Laskey
Founder and Executive Chair
Alex Laskey is the founder and CEO of a stealth medical device company committed to protecting nurses and doctors as they care for our most vulnerable infectious disease patients.
Saul Griffith
Founder
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.
Leadership
Cammie Croft
Chief of Staff, Vice President, Operations & Planning
Cammie Croft is the Chief of Staff VP, Operations & Planning 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.
Stacey Abrams
Senior Advisor
Stacey Abrams is Senior Advisor to Rewiring America. She is a political leader, small business owner, and New York Times bestselling author.
Tom Carden
Vice President, Engineering
Tom Carden is the Vice President, 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.
Sarah Lazarovic
Vice President, Communications & Creative Strategy
Sarah Lazarovic is the Vice President, Communications & Creative Strategy at Rewiring America. She is a writer, creative director, and marketing strategist. She oversees Rewiring America's communications, creative, and events teams, overseeing brand and creative execution in support of mainstream electric awareness.
Marjan Mashhadi
General Counsel
Marjan is General Counsel for Rewiring America. She comes to RA having served as a strategic business partner to executives at General Assembly (a vocational institute passionate about closing the global tech skills gap) and TaskRabbit (a two-sided marketplace providing folks of all stripes opportunities to earn a meaningful income).
Tom Mercer
Vice President, Product
Tom Mercer is the Vice President, 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.
Stephen Pantano
Vice President, Research & Special Projects
Steve Pantano is the Vice President, Research & Special Projects 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.
Tracey Patterson
Vice President, Community Implementation
Tracey Patterson is the VP of Community Implementation at Rewiring America. Before joining Rewiring, Tracey was the Chief Program Officer at Code for America, where she led nationally-scaled programs to deliver digital products and services with government and communities to measurably improve delivery of public benefits and services for economic mobility.
Nicole Staple
Vice President, Growth
Nicole Staple is the Vice President, Growth 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.
Aimee Witteman
Vice President, Network
As Vice President of Network at Rewiring America, Aimee leads the investment, policy, and partnership functions and teams, guiding strategy and ensuring alignment with Rewiring America's mission. She brings over two decades of experience leading federal and state policy and grassroots campaigns, working with philanthropies, governments, businesses, and nonprofits to accelerate deep decarbonization of the US economy.
Operations & Planning
Hannah Chai
Senior Director, People & Culture
Hannah Chai is the Sr. Director, People and 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.
Hilary Thompson
Senior Manager, Talent Acquisition & Culture
Hilary is the Sr. Manager of Talent Acquisition & Culture at Rewiring America. She has many years of experience in Talent Acquisition across multiple industries including local government, non-profit, telecommunications, and technology at companies ranging from start-up to enterprise.
LaToya Green
People & Culture Generalist
LaToya Green is the People & Culture Manager at Rewiring America. Prior to joining, she spent years working in various people and HR functions primarily in Healthcare industries and brings a balanced understanding of organizational dynamics and the importance of creating a supportive work environment.
Anissa Aguirre
People & Culture Coordinator
Anissa has spent her career working in the HR field across various industries, including entertainment and healthcare. Before joining Rewiring America, she served as HR Coordinator at Serino Coyne, where she standardized onboarding and off-boarding protocols, managed the employee life cycle, and led several DEI initiatives.
Esteban Yepez
People & Culture Coordinator
Esteban is a People & Culture Coordinator at Rewiring America. He joins the team from Ellevation Education, a mission-driven company dedicated to helping English Learners achieve their highest aspirations.
Amy LaThanh
Deputy Chief of Staff, Head of Operations
Amy LaThanh is Deputy Chief of Staff, Head of Operations 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.
Christin Pelgrum
Executive Administration Partner
Christin Pelgrum is the Executive Administration Partner 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.
Rebekah Puleo
Executive Assistant
Rebekah Puleo is an Executive Assistant at Rewiring America. She is a seasoned project manager and executive support professional with over a decade of experience in operations management and high-touch support.
Peter Blair
Director, Planning & Performance
Peter Blair is the Director for Planning and Performance at Rewiring America. He grew up in Northern Ireland, and has spent his career working in social impact - including leading international election observation missions, growing a B-Corps tech for good company, and leading nonprofit solution strategy at Salesforce.org.
Sam Marx
Director, Organizational Development & Culture
Sam Marx is the Senior Manager of Organizational Development 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.
Joshua Gilstein
Operations Manager
Joshua Gilstein is the Operations Manager at Rewiring America. He brings a broad spectrum of professional experience in public health, arts and culture, political campaigns, higher education, LGBTQ+ equality, and healthcare IT.
Blair Brown
Operations Coordinator
Before starting at Rewiring America, Blair held the position of Operations Manager at Utah Clean Energy, a nonprofit organization in Utah focused on clean energy, electrification, and energy policy. In this role, she ensured the team had the necessary resources for success.
Dash Williams
Operations Coordinator
Dash joins the team as an Operations Coordinator with a professional background in residential infrastructure administration and cost management. They bring over a decade of experience in construction, residential and auto lending, and compliance data management. In their previous roles, they helped develop affordable financial products for multiple climate-focused startups, managed thousands of real estate contracts at lenders and law offices, cultivated relationships with green banks, and tackled grant and budget development for renewable energy in the city government.
Sarah Fenn
Deputy, General Counsel
Sarah Fenn is Deputy General Counsel at Rewiring America. She has two decades of experience working between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., providing strategic legal counsel and policy expertise.
Mirzeta Mehuljic
Controller
Mirzeta is the Controller at Rewiring America. She grew up in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and dedicated her accounting career to the not-for profit sector, specifically organizations whose mission is land conservation, and preserving the natural spaces for future generations to enjoy.
Product
Erik Shilts
Head of Data Science
Erik is the Head 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.
Mohammad Fathollahzadeh
Lead Energy Modeling and Simulation Engineer
Mohammad Fathollahzadeh is Lead Energy Modeling and Simulation Engineer at Rewiring America. In his role, Mohammad focuses on the technical, economical, and environmental modeling and analysis of building energy systems.
Talor Gruenwald
Data Scientist
Talor Gruenwald is a Data Scientist at Rewiring America, where he conducts quantitative analyses evaluating the economic, emissions, health, air quality, and equity implications of building electrification policies.
Miki Verma
Data Scientist
Miki Verma is a Data Scientist 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.
Tarren Peterson
Data Scientist
Tarren Peterson is a member of the Data Science team at Rewiring America, where he helps to quantify and model the transition to an electric future. He comes to Rewiring America from the University of Chicago, where he recently completed a master’s degree in Computational Analysis for Public Policy and researched the use of satellite-based methods to detect floating patches of plastic in the ocean.
Darren Vengroff
Data Science Manager
Darren Vengroff is a computer scientist, machine learning engineer, data scientist and inventor.
Mindy Flores
Senior Data Engineer
Mindy Flores is a Senior Data Engineer at Rewiring America, with over 8 years of experience in software. In 2021, she returned to school at San Diego State University to pursue a Master’s in Computer Science, enhancing her expertise in Data Architecture and Machine Learning.
Christine George
Data Engineer
Christine George is a Data Engineer at Rewiring America. Prior to joining, she worked as a Data Engineer with Nike. While there, she developed data pipelines to help analyze and optimize global supply chain processes.
Quentin Barber
Senior Product Manager
Quentin Barber, a Senior Product Manager at Rewiring America, is proudly helping to build products that accelerate electrification in America by making the process more accessible, actionable, and achievable.
Chell Zeng
Product Manager
Chell Zeng is a Product Manager 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
Emiola Banwo
Senior Product Designer
Emiola Banwo is a Senior Product Designer at Rewiring America. After experiencing homelessness in Nigeria as a boy, he has first-hand experience with the social, economic, and environmental challenges faced by billions globally.
Spenser Garden
Senior Product Designer
Spenser Garden is a Senior Product Designer driven to improve our collective wellbeing through intuitive software design. Over the course of his 10 year career, he’s designed products that help improve personal mobility, transport access, and income opportunity for people across the globe.
Leah Mosier
Senior Product & Experience Designer
Leah has a degree in Atmosphere/Energy from Stanford University, where she focused on design thinking and equity. During her time at the Rocky Mountain Institute, she became a professional facilitator, leading events with over 200 cities to help accelerate solar energy projects.
Kavina del Monte
Product Manager
Kavina is a career data product manager passionate about using data to democratize knowledge across organizations and elevate the voices of users.
Adam Roessler
Engineering Manager
Adam Roessler is an Engineering Manager at Rewiring America. He joined Rewiring America from Lattice, where he mentored and led engineering teams building HR tools.
Veekas Ashoka
Software Engineer
Veekas Ashoka is a Software Engineer at Rewiring America. Prior to joining Rewiring America, he worked for Arcadia Power and The Knot on their core infrastructure teams and used to be a regular speaker at tech meetups in New York City.
Hannah Blumberg
Senior Software Engineer
Hannah is a Senior Software Engineer at Rewiring America. She started her career at Khan Academy, where she developed software for the nonprofit's educational web and mobile applications.
Asaeli Matelau
Senior Software Engineer
Asa Matelau, a Senior Software Engineer at Rewiring America, brings with him nearly a decade of experience in software development across various startups in diverse industries such as security, healthcare, fintech, logistics, marketing, and social domains.
Rachel Partridge
Senior Software Engineer
Rachel Partridge is a Senior Software Engineer at Rewiring America. She joined Rewiring America from Arcadia, where she spent 4 years leading teams and building technology to support the expansion of community solar.
Nick Stevens
Senior Software Engineer
Before joining tech, Nick worked for the ONE Campaign as a grassroots organizer, a skillset which he has applied as a volunteer for numerous climate organizations over the past few years. In 2022, Nick co-founded Go Electric Colorado, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting people and our planet by transitioning our homes and commutes to cleaner, more economical electric appliances and vehicles.
Owen Yamauchi
Senior Software Engineer
Owen Yamauchi is a Senior Software Engineer at Rewiring America. Previously, he worked as a software engineer at Segovia Technology and at Facebook.
Bonnie Ishiguro
Senior Software Engineer
Bonnie Ishiguro is a Senior Software Engineer at Rewiring America. She spent the first five years of her career at IBM, where she built solutions that center patients’ needs within the healthcare ecosystem, including consent management and digital health pass offerings.
Tomara Petty
Software Engineer
Tomara is a dedicated software engineer with a unique journey from the music industry to the forefront of climate and energy solutions. During her career in the fast-paced world of touring, she provided remote and on-site technical support.
Benj Fredrick
Senior Software Engineer
Benj has over two decades of experience writing software, working with various organizations including Microsoft, The Emmy Awards, University of Washington, SolarCity, and Tesla.
Mary Pustejovsky
Senior Product Manager, Incentives
Mary Pustejovsky is the Senior Product Manager focused on the incentives ecosystem. Her past professional experience includes product management for the Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack, an app used by more than 20,000 nonprofit and non-governmental organizations globally.
Cameron Johnson-Brown
Software Engineer
Cameron is a software engineer at Rewiring America, with a diverse breadth of software development experience. He spent the first 3 years of his career working at Exele, an industrial automation firm, where he developed web and desktop applications for Windows.
Rachael Serur
Senior Software Engineer
Rachael Serur is a Sr. Software Engineer at Rewiring America. As a lifelong technologist, she has dedicated over a decade to the engineering, design, and product development of mission-driven technologies in climate, healthcare, social impact, wellness, and education.
Luke Donahue
Software Engineer
Luke is on a life-long quest of learning and growth. He's been a physics and math teacher, a game designer, and is currently a software engineer.
Natalie Weires
Software Engineer
Natalie is a software engineer on the data science team at Rewiring America. Previously, she worked on Mesa – an easy-install kit for commercial buildings to save energy and improve building operations – at Sidewalk Labs and Google.
Research, Learning, and Special Projects
Carla Burns
Senior Program Manager Research & Special Projects
Carla Burns is a Senior Program Manager, Research & Special Projects at Rewiring America, where she conducts research to empower Americans to electrify their homes and communities.
Jamal Lewis
Senior Director, Implementation Learning & Integration
Jamal is Sr. Director, Implementation Learning & Integration at 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.
Joel Rosenberg
Senior 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.
Cora Wyent
Senior Director, Research
Cora Wyent is Senior Director of Research at Rewiring America, whereshe 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 ultra thin solar cells and performed techno economic analysis of new photovoltaic and carbon capture technologies.
Wael Kanj
Senior Research Associate, Quantitative
Wael Kanj is a Senior Research Associate at Rewiring America. Prior to joining the team, Wael received his Master of City and Regional Planning degree from Rutgers University, where he conducted research on state resiliency plans, the community impacts of transit-oriented development, water access in the Navajo Nation, and where all the food waste in New Jersey came from.
Alexandria Herr
Senior Research Associate, Qualitative
Alexandria is a Senior Research Associate at Rewiring America. Alexandria’s background is at the intersection of research and writing focused on climate solutions and environmental justice. H
JahAsia Jacobs
Qualitative Research Analyst
JahAsia Jacobs is the Qualitative Research Analyst at Rewiring America. She joins the research team as a trained socio-cultural anthropologist with a master’s degree from Princeton University.
Isabella Peterson
Quantitative Research Analyst
Isabella Peterson is a Quantitative Research Analyst at Rewiring America, where she provides robust insights to help accelerate nation-wide electrification. Isabella joins Rewiring America from The LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin, where she recently completed a master’s degree in Public Affairs.
Yanelle Cruz Bonilla
Qualitative Research Analyst
Yanelle Cruz Bonilla comes to Rewiring America from the University of Oxford where she earned an MPhil in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation and an MSC in Migration Studies. She also holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology from Tufts University.
Network
Shiloh Stark
Senior Director, Investment Operations
Shiloh Stark is the Senior Director of Investment Operations at Rewiring America, where he co-creates our fundraising strategy, brings new systems to life, and keeps programs running smoothly.
Claire Goebel
Senior Director, Major Gifts
Claire Goebel has spent 15 years driving impact across many settings, including a venture-backed startup, philanthropic consulting, a globally ranked academic healthcare system, and multiple nonprofits. She has scaled national and international initiatives in housing, healthcare, and education, and thrives in shepherding relationships and resources that drive strategic growth.
Hannah Madden
Investment Coordinator
Hannah is the Investment Coordinator at Rewiring America. Before joining the Rewiring America team, she was the Development Coordinator at End Citizens United / Let America Vote, where she helped to build out grassroots fundraising programs to advocate for democracy reform.
Rahul Young
Senior Director, Community Engagement
Rahul Young is the Senior Director of Community Engagement at Rewiring America, where he leads the Local Government Leaders for Electrification Coalition within the Community 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.
Evie Bauman
Director, Community Implementation
Evie is the Director, Community Implementation at Rewiring America, focusing on recruitment, engagement, and strategy for local government leaders and communities committed to electrification.
Kelsey Kane-Ritsch
Director, Community Implementation
Kelsey Kane-Ritsch is Director, Community Implementation 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.
Trace Allen
Community Implementation Manager
Trace is a Community Implementation Manager at Rewiring America. He is passionate about building economies that prioritize public and planetary health.
Valeria Rincon
Community Engagement & Implementation Associate
Valeria is the Community Engagement & Implementation Associate at Rewiring America, focusing on recruitment, engagement, and strategy for members of Rewiring America’s Local Governments Leaders for Electrification Coalition. Prior to joining RA, Valeria was the Midwest Building Decarbonization Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council where she focused on policy development and campaigns for statewide building decarbonization policies in Illinois and Michigan and at the local level in Chicago.
Kelly Delaney
Manager of Implementation Operations
Kelly is the Community Implementation Operations Manager at Rewiring America, where she serves as the bridge between multiple teams, goals, and priorities to drive a coordinated approach. Kelly comes to Rewiring America from the State of California’s GoGreen Financing Program, where she helped facilitate energy upgrade financing for residential, small business and multifamily properties.
Bryson Rose
Community Engagement Associate
Bryson Rose, (he/him) is an experienced trainer with over a decade of leading capacity-building initiatives and developing organizational change strategies for non-profits.
Ian Magruder
Director, Market Mobilization
Ian Magruder is the Director, Market Mobilization 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.
Grace Mok
Market Mobilization Coordinator
Grace Mok is the Market Mobilization Coordinator, leading the day-to-day operations for the CEOs for Electrification coalition. Prior to joining, she worked for Freewill, a social good startup, building efficient systems and processes to scale their customer success team.
Kristin Eberhard
Head of Policy
Kristin G. Eberhard, JD, MEM, is the Head of Policy at Rewiring America. She previously served as the Director of Climate Policy at the Niskanen Center, a centrist think tank in Washington, DC, as the Director of Climate and Democracy at Sightline Institute, a regional policy think tank based in Seattle, and as the Western Director of Climate and Energy at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
David Friedman
Senior Director of Federal Policy
David is a policy expert, strategist, engineer, and advocate on a mission to help make the world a better place for all. He has served in leadership, advocacy and research roles at Consumer Reports and the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Zach Pierce
Senior Director, State & Regional Policy
Zach has spent over ten years working as a public servant and an advocate on climate change and clean energy policy across the United States. He most recently served as North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper’s Senior Advisor for Climate Change Policy.
Jenna Warmuth
Senior Manager Midwest Regional Policy
Jenna is a public policy professional with over 15 years of utility and clean energy advocacy experience. She has deep knowledge of regulatory and legislative processes and has delved deep into grid modernization, integrated distribution planning, interconnection, electrification, equity, and stakeholder engagement.
Serena Campas
Associate, State Policy
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.
Michael Hernandez
New York Policy Director
Michael Hernandez is the Director, New York Policy 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.
Amanda Sachs
Associate, State Policy
Amanda Sachs is an Associate, State Policy 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.
Erin Mettler
Policy Analyst
Erin is a policy analyst at Rewiring America. Prior to joining Rewiring America, Erin worked for several years as a natural gas planning engineer at Consumers Energy, and most recently worked as a decarbonization consultant at a boutique energy consulting firm.
Rebecca Curry
Senior Manager, Western Regional Policy
Becca Curry is an attorney and the Sr. Manager of Western Regional Policy at Rewiring America. Becca is passionate about clean energy and community partnerships, and brings significant experience navigating legislative and regulatory processes.
Patrick Murphy
Community Implementation Manager
Patrick Murphy is a Community Implementation Manager at Rewiring America working to accelerate electrification projects in underserved communities. Patrick joined Rewiring America after four years at CLEAResult, where he led the equity-focused Community Partner Funding rebate program for the Energy Trust of Oregon.
Communications & Creative
Natalie Bomberry
Senior Director, Comms & Creative Strategy
Natalie Bomberry has over 15 years of account management and agency leadership experience, in the field of PR, brand strategy and design, guiding North America's top public companies, institutions, independent businesses and non-profits, such as the City of Toronto, Air Miles, and The 519.
Alexis Mendivil
Project Management Specialist
Alexis is the Project Management Specialist at Rewiring America. With over 6 years of experience, she has worked in various sectors, including education, entrepreneurship, and with women-owned and minority-owned tech startups. Alexis holds a Master's degree in Public Health with a focus on Health Education and Promotion from California State University, San Marcos.
Jonathan Moore
Product & Partnerships Communications Manager
Jonathan is the Product & Partnerships Communications Manager at Rewiring America. He’s a big brother, poet, and narrative strategist inspired by technology that transforms how we live together.
Emily Owens
Director of Events
Emily is the Events Director at Rewiring America. Over the past decade, Emily has produced hundreds of events in the nonprofit, public media and outdoor industries.
Courtney St. John
Head of Communications
Courtney St. John is a climate communications expert with extensive experience working across sectors on environmental issues. Prior to joining Rewiring America, Courtney was the Managing Director for Science and Energy at Climate Nexus, a non-profit strategic communications firm.
Alex Amend
Director, Communications
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.
Jordan Fontenot
Communications Manager
Jordan Fontenot is the Communications Manager at Rewiring America. She is a skilled communications professional with almost a decade of experience in media analysis, strategic communication and public relations.
Alana Murphy
Senior Communications Associate
Alana Murphy is a Senior Communications Associate at Rewiring America where she manages media relations, develops proactive communication strategies, and assists in key federal and state campaigns.
Yazmyn Pelaez
Communications Associate
Yazmyn resides in Las Vegas and has spent 6 years working with environmental organizations in Nevada — home to two of the fastest-warming cities in the United States. She has disseminated climate stories in both English and Spanish, contributing to key policy victories.
Geneviève Biloski
Senior Creative Director
Geneviève is the Senior 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.
Felicia Feaster
Director, Content Studio
Felicia Feaster is the Content Studio Director at Rewiring America. Felicia began her career as a film and art critic and for the past 16 years has worked as a lifestyle journalist covering interior design, travel, wellness, trends and culture for publications including the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Garden&Gun, Martha Stewart, The Economist and Atlanta magazine.
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.
Dan McCollister
Social Media Creator
Dan is a social media creator for Rewiring America. Previously, Dan served as Communications Director for political campaigns, authors and mission-driven organizations.
Nicole Bode
Senior Writer & Editor
Nicole Bode is a Senior Writer & Editor at Rewiring America. She has spent her career as an editor, writer, journalist, and storyteller, most recently as the director of research at TED.
Tallie Johnson
Senior Video Producer
Tallie Johnson is the Senior Video Producer at Rewiring America, continually pushing the boundaries of storytelling in the digital landscape. With over a decade of experience crafting compelling content for leading media networks and production companies, she has produced a diverse range of projects, including investigative documentaries, travel series, and historical and cultural programming.
Roxy Torres
Senior Designer
Roxy is the Senior Designer at Rewiring America. Originally from sunny El Salvador, her love for the arts led her to Savannah College of Art and Design, where she earned a BFA in Graphic Design.
English Prevo
Designer
English Prevo is a Designer and Visual Artist with a passion for visual storytelling and creating captivating experiences through her work. With over 8 years of experience in the start-up industry, she has honed her skills across a diverse range of products, spanning SAAS tech to hearing aids to podcasting platforms.
Chloe Yeo
Designer
Chloe is a Designer at Rewiring America. She has six years of experience evolving brands in the retail and consumer packaged goods space, crafting marketing campaigns and designing packaging for sustainable, impact-driven food companies.
Growth
Taylor Halverson
Director, Market Partnerships
Taylor is the Director, Market Partnerships 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.
Maddie Gryll
Head of Consumer Experience
Maddie Gryll is the Head of Consumer Experience, and previously supported recruiting initiatives at Rewiring America. She has nearly a decade of experience leading teams in rapid growth environments, including for Coca Cola’s venture and emerging brands portfolio, the women’s health publisher Well+Good, and in her own consultancy.
Katy Hill
Director of Education
Katy Hill is the Director of Education at Rewiring America. With over a decade of experience in education and learning design, Katy has created interactive curricula for adults and students in schools, businesses, and museums. In recent years she’s focused on online education, developing dynamic courses around life design and climate.
Anna Hovland
Senior Manager, Experience
Anna Hovland is the Senior Manager, Experience at Rewiring America. She has over a decade of experience in project and operations management, creating systems and processes to help teams excel and deliver work that meets user and stakeholder needs.
Janice Kruger
Sr. Manager of Training
Janice Kruger is a Senior Manager focusing on training and mobilization for the Power Forward Communities initiative. She also serves as a Guide for the Electric Coach Certification course.
Gabriela Hills
Audience Engagement Manager
Gabriela Hills is the Audience Engagement Manager at Rewiring America. She is a writer and editor with over 10 years of experience in Operations and Supply Chain.
Suzy Yong Yin Situ
Retention Marketing Manager
Suzy Situ is a Retention Marketing Manager at Rewiring America. She has almost a decade of experience in lifecycle and growth marketing.
Dorie Klein
Retention Marketing Manager
Dorie Klein is a Retention Marketing Manager at Rewiring America. Her career in digital marketing includes work for political campaigns, nonprofits, consulting groups, and more.
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.
Sam Weber
Senior Director, Marketing Campaigns & Digital
Sam Weber is the Senior Director of Marketing Operations at Rewiring America. Before joining Rewiring America, he built and led the marketing and support teams at Fyn, a crypto tax accounting platform.
Liz Voeller
Director, Market Development
Liz serves as the Director of Market Development at Rewiring America. She has spent the majority of her career working on projects to reduce the impact of the built environment on climate change.
Harper Yi
Marketing Manager, Consumer Strategy
Harper Yi is the Marketing Manager, Consumer Strategy at Rewiring America, building the partnerships and alliances that will accelerate America towards electrification. Her area of expertise is in creating win-win situations, and she’s done so across a variety of industries including social impact, entertainment, media, and tech.
Brock Benefiel
Director, Entertainment Partnerships
Brock Benefiel is the Director of Entertainment Partnerships at Rewiring America. He is the co-host of The Climate Pod, a leading climate change podcast.
Molly Nicholson
Digital Marketing Manager
Molly Nicholson is the Digital Marketing Manager at Rewiring America. She has developed the digital ads strategy for many progressive political candidates and organizations and helped win her previous employer the 2023 Reed Digital Agency of the Year award.
Nicholas McBride
Senior Salesforce Administrator
Nicholas McBride is the Sr. Salesforce Administrator at Rewiring America. He is an experienced Salesforce professional with close to a decade worth of experience. He brings a strong background in administration, business analysis, and development.
Darren Reuter
Heat Pump HVAC Category Manager
Darren is an engineer by background with over five years of experience in the refrigeration and HVAC industry. Originally from Southern Indiana and now based in Indianapolis, Darren has most recently worked as a Senior MBD Controls Engineer at Carrier Corporation.
Melissa Jones
Project Management Specialist
Melissa is the Project Management Specialist at Rewiring America. Based in Washington, DC, her heart is rooted in Mississippi, where her family brings her joy.
Key Consultants
Leah Stokes
Senior Policy Counsel
Leah Stokes is Sr. Policy Counsel to Rewiring America. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Katie Ingebretson
Community Implementation Consultant
Katie Ingebretson advises the Community Implementation 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.
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.
Jacob Harold
Senior Advisor
Jacob Harold is a nonprofit executive, author, and advisor. He served as CEO of GuideStar and led its 2019 merger with Foundation Center to form Candid. Fast Company called Candid "the definitive nonprofit transparency organization."