Energy Resources & Access

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Rachel Golden

2014 Fellow
Rachel Golden is pursuing a Master of Public Policy degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy and a Master of Art degree from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. Through an interdisciplinary approach, Rachel studies how...
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Shrayas Jatkar

2014 Fellow
Shrayas joined the Equity, Climate, and Jobs team at the California Workforce Development Board in November 2017. His work includes overseeing a major study to the state legislature about economic and workforce development issues linked to...
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Brian Bowen

2014 Fellow
Brian Bowen manages transportation data partnerships at StreetLight, which is committed to creating a more connected, sustainable transportation system. Brian became a Switzer Fellow while pursuing his Master’s in City Planning at the...
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Chris Field

2014 Fellow
Chris (he/him) is an Analyst in Natural Resources Policy with the Congressional Research Service. He has worked at the interface of science and policy for over 15 years as a practitioner, researcher, and educator. Before joining the...
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Robert Heilmayr

2013 Fellow
Robert is an interdisciplinary environmental scientist who combines approaches from economics, geography and ecology to explore the way society uses and governs natural resources. Robert is a postdoctoral fellow in the Carlson Lab in the...
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Sarah Myhre

2013 Fellow
Sarah is an ocean and climate scientist trained to think about how abrupt climate change impacts physical and biological systems. She received doctoral training in paleoceanography, climate change, geochemistry and marine ecology from the...
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Meredith Niles

2013 Fellow
Dr. Meredith Niles is Acting Director of the Gund Institute for Environment, Associate Director of the Food Systems Research Center, and an Associate Professor in food systems and nutrition at the University of Vermont. Her research...
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Paige Weber

2013 Fellow
Paige Weber is currently a Ph.D. student in environmental economics at Yale University. Her research focuses on applied work in energy and electricity markets, industrial organization, carbon regulation, and sustainable transportation...
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Jia-Ching Chen

2013 Fellow
Jia-Ching is Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his PhD in City & Regional Planning at the UC Berkeley. His research examines China’s emerging role in the...
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Kevin Kung

2013 Fellow
Kevin Kung earned his Ph.D. from MIT, focusing on biofuels and renewable energy, and specializes in biomass and energy conversion systems, engineering design in resource-constrained settings, and waste industry innovation. In 2012, by...