MIT

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Sanjana Paul

2024 Fellow
Sanjana Paul is an engineer, environmental educator, and graduate student in Environmental Policy and Planning at MIT, where her research focuses on process innovation and technical/policy boundaries of renewable energy systems and the...
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Nicole Wong

2024 Fellow
Nicole explores the intersection of affordable housing and climate equity, including building energy retrofit strategies that can reduce energy burden, prevent displacement, and target climate investments to low-income communities of color.
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Dyanna Jaye

2023 Fellow
Dyanna is studying policies to guide long-haul economic transition pathways to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. Before graduate school, Dyanna organized with grassroots movements to design and win climate policy for over a decade.
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Ross Feehan

2022 Fellow
Ross has led supply-chain operations for Doctors Without Borders and worked on responsible sourcing and recycling for Apple’s global supply chain. A citizen of both the U.S. and Ireland, he roots his sustainability work in Celtic, Ignatian, and monastic spiritual traditions.
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Abraham Herzog-Arbeitman

2022 Fellow
A polymer chemist, Abe studies polymer and supramolecular materials for next-generation batteries and sustainable plastics. Using organic and macromolecular synthetic methodologies, he designs polyelectrolytes, mechanochemically-active networks, and self-assembling graft copolymers.
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Aja Grande

2021 Fellow
Aja finds joy in building reciprocal relationships between people and land. She was born and raised on the island of Oʻahu in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the department...
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Ángel Ibañez

2021 Fellow
Ángel is an MBA and MPP candidate at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he is a Bacon Environmental Fellow through the Center for Public Leadership. His work focuses on expanding clean energy...
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Janelle Heslop

2018 Fellow
Janelle is a dual degree candidate at MIT, where she is pursuing both a M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an M.B.A. At MIT, Janelle is exploring ideas at the intersection of environmental sustainability, resource efficiency...
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Doug McPherson

2017 Fellow
Doug received his master's at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. His concentration is Housing, Community and Economic Development, and his research focuses on policies and initiatives that promote the development of open space...
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Jeremy Poindexter

2017 Fellow
Jeremy Poindexter is currently a Senior Battery Engineer at Sila Nanotechnologies, working on integrating silicon-based materials into lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles to enhance energy storage and increase vehicle range. He has...