UC Berkeley

Cristina Crespo Montañés is a PhD Candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Link Foundation Energy Fellow. Her research studies social and spatial inequities in urban energy transitions. She has been a Fulbright Spain scholar and received an MS in Industrial Engineering from École Centrale Paris and Universitat Politécnica de València. Dr. Eric O'Shaughnessy is a renewable energy research consultant. His research focuses on econometric analysis of distributed energy resource markets. Eric received his PhD from the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Dominic Bednar is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society and School of Sustainability. He is also currently a Fulbright Chile scholar. His research examines the institutional barriers of energy poverty recognition and response in the United States and explores the spatial, racial/ethnic, and socio-economic patterns of residential energy affordability, consumption, and efficiency. Dr. Destenie Nock is an assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), and CEO of Peoples Energy Analytics. She is also the director of the Society, Policy, Infrastructure, Climate, and Energy (SPICE) group at CMU. Her research uses mathematical modeling tools to address societal problems related to sustainability planning, energy policy, equity, and engineering for social good. Dr. Sanya Carley is a Paul H. O'Neill Professor and Director of the Master of Public Affairs programs at the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, where she also co-directs the Energy Justice Lab. Her research focuses on energy justice and just transitions, electricity and transportation markets and policies, and public perceptions of energy infrastructure and technologies. Dr. Daniel M. Kammen is the Senior Advisor for Energy & Innovation at the US Agency for International Development. He is the James and Katherine Lau Distinguished Professor in Sustainability at the University of California, Berkeley, where he directs the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory. He has served as the Science Envoy for the US Department of State and as Chief Technical Specialist for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency at the World Bank. Dr. David M. Konisky is the Lynton K. Caldwell Professor at the Paul H. O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, where he also co-directs the Energy Justice Lab. Konisky's research focuses on US environmental policy and politics, with particular emphasis on environmental and energy justice, regulation, federalism, and public opinion.