Clean Energy Implementation & Development Tuesday, September 29, 6:30-8pm ET EMILY SKILL Development Manager | Enel Green Power Emily Skill graduated from the University of Dayton in 2017 with a BS in geology, minors in sustainability, energy, and the environment (SEE) and philosophy, and a certificate in GIS. After graduating from UD, I moved across the country and earned a Master of Science in Environment and Society from Utah State University. My master's thesis studied how municipalities develop, adopt, and execute 100% renewable electricity resolutions. During my time in graduate school, I was a funded research assistant working on a two-year Department of Defense grant in coordination with the Utah Office of Energy Development and the Utah Geologic Survey to create a publicly available GIS map that displays wind and solar potential in Utah that is compatible with military operations. Upon completing my masters, I worked for Enyo Renewable Energy, a renewable energy development company in Salt Lake City that develops wind and solar projects across Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. I worked as a project developer for Enyo for a little over a year until I was offered a position with Enel Green Power, a renewable energy company that develops and operates renewable projects across the globe. I am now working as a development manager to bring large-scale solar and wind projects to Illinois. I just began this position in early September and will be relocating to the Chicago area in a couple of weeks. I have loved living in Utah and recreating in the mountains for the past three years, but I am very excited about taking this step forward in my career and moving closer to my family. SANDRA L. WINKLER Senior Research Scientist | Research and Advanced Engineering | Ford Motor Company Sandra L. Winkler is a senior research scientist at Ford Motor Company, Research & Advanced Engineering in Dearborn, Michigan. During Sandy’s 30 year career at Ford, she has worked on environmental projects from air quality to climate change. During the first half of her career she modeled ozone air quality and conducted statistical analysis of air quality data. In the second half, her research has focused on climate change, developing CO2 emission pathways for Ford’s vehicles and manufacturing facilities that are consistent with stabilizing global temperature change. Sandy is excited to be a member of the global Ford team that is developing Ford’s newly announced carbon neutrality goal. Sandy received a B.S. in mathematics and an M.S.E. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Michigan-Dearborn. REAGAN MAMER Senior Manager | Innovation | IGS Labs Reagan Mamer currently leads IGS Labs, the Innovation team at IGS Energy. She joined IGS immediately after graduating from Wright State University and has quickly proven herself to be a leader in the product space. Reagan previously led the Residential Product team where she brought a consumer focused lens and data driven approach to developing products. She has been instrumental in the organization’s product evolution and is passionate about creating products that provide true value to the end consumer. Reagan also leads the Women of IGS Network. She has a relentless passion for achieving gender equity in the workplace. She is currently a member of the WELD Columbus chapter whose mission it is to develop and advance women's leadership to strengthen the economic prosperity of the communities it serves. Clean Energy Regulation & Policy Wednesday, September 30, 6:30-8pm ET KATIE REVER Director | Legislative and Regulatory Affairs | IGS Solar Katie Rever is the Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs at IGS Solar where she is responsible for representing the company with state legislatures, utility commissions, and other stakeholders across the country. She is the principle advisor to the executive team on solar and distributed generation policy, helping the team anticipate the challenges and opportunities brought about by the rapidly changing solar policy landscape. Prior to joining IGS, Katie was a Senior Director for State Affairs with the Solar Energy Industries Association where she led SEIA’s regulatory and legislative activity in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and other eastern states. At SEIA, Katie negotiated on behalf of SEIA in many settings, testified in front of legislatures and utility commissions, advanced SEIA’s interests in coordination with a wide variety of stakeholders, and helped member companies find common ground amidst competing business interests. Prior to SEIA, Katie was a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Program where she managed solar and energy efficiency market transformation activities, including workforce development and international issues. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and earned her Masters in Public Policy and Environmental Management from Duke University. PATRICIA D'COSTA Senior Consultant | Distributed Grid Strategy | ICF Patricia D'Costa is a Senior Consultant within ICF’s Advisory Services practice in the Distributed Grid Strategy group. Her work is focused on providing technical advisory to electric distribution utilities and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to integrate more distributed energy resources (DER) by adopting new planning processes, grid modernization technologies, advanced customer solutions, and innovative business models. Patricia has seven years of experience in the cleantech (now climate tech) industry. She has an MS in Energy Systems Engineering from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Metropolitana (Caracas, Venezuela). Patricia is a 2017 Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI) fellow (Washington, DC) and is actively engaged with local clean energy and women in energy associations. Patricia is passionate about achieving a clean, resilient, and equitable energy future and strongly believes that including more women in this transition will accelerate and improve results. Before ICF, Patricia worked for a large Northeast electric and gas utility implementing energy efficiency programs and for a consulting company developing innovative clean energy projects in Mexico. Patricia is based in the New York City office. MADALYN BEBAN Rotational Engineer | PJM Interconnection Madalyn Beban is an engineer at PJM Interconnection, LLC., the Regional Transmission Organization that serves to operate and plan the transmission system and wholesale electricity markets of thirteen states and Washington, D.C. She has worked in the organization since completing her Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Dayton in 2018, with an Energy Systems Concentration and a longstanding commitment to civic engagement on campus. Madalyn was a River Steward in the 2018 Cohort as part of the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community, a member of the Honors Program, and a partner on many initiatives housed in the Hanley Sustainability Institute. She spent the summer of 2017 in D.C. with the WISE Program, sponsored by ASHRAE, completing a policy research paper on state-level generation siting practice. As a member of PJM’s engineer rotational development program, she has worked in Interconnection, Capacity Market, Modeling, and various other groups. She has worked on a number of efforts related to data collection and management, as well as market participation of distributed energy resources. Madalyn participates in the machine learning working group and is currently completing a Masters in Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society, and of the Next Generation Network of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE). Her current research interests include electricity market design, system modeling best practices, and the application of machine learning techniques in the power sector. Social Impact of Clean Energy Thursday, October 1, 6:30-8pm ET NATASHA WRIGHT Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering | University of Minnesota – Twin Cities Natasha Wright is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. Her research and teaching interests include membrane-based separation processes, desalination, photovoltaic and solar thermal water treatment, design ethnography, and the role of engineering in global development. She completed her PhD in the Global Engineering and Research Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2018 and developed the semester course Engineering in Development at Tufts University. She was awarded the Lemelson-MIT Award for graduate inventors (2017), was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy (2016), and led the team that won the USAID Desal Prize (2015). Natasha received her B.S.M.E. from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. KRYSTAL LAYMON Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist | Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Krystal Laymon is a Supervisory Emergency Management Specialist at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) managing projects at FEMA's Region 7, 9, and 10. Previously she worked at the US Department of Energy (DOE) as a Policy Advisor for DOE’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office focused on clean energy and resiliency strategies for vulnerable populations and DOE’s Office of Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA) leading the White House Initiative “Climate Action Champions.” She earned a M.P.A. in Environmental