Laura is a policy researcher in the Integrated Decision Support Group in the Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support Center. Her work involves providing technical assistance to islands, remote communities, and tribes with clean energy and energy resilience planning and strategy. In addition, Laura is passionate about pursuing energy equity and energy justice in all facets of her work. Laura holds a master’s degree in Sustainability Planning and Management from the University of Colorado Boulder and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Northwestern University. 

Research Interests

Energy justice

Climate change

Resilient energy transitions

Tribal renewable energy

Cold climate

Education

Financing and Deploying Clean Energy Certificate, Yale University

M.S., Sustainability Planning and Management, University of Colorado

B.S., Political Science, Northwestern University

Featured Work

Addressing Regulatory Challenges to Tribal Solar Deployment, NREL Technical Report (2023)