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Data Center Research Assistant (part-time)

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

• Research the governance of data center development with Professor Henry Lee, focusing on how communities take part in local water and energy planning decisions as public opposition delays more projects.
• Analyze disclosure rules for data center developers that would help the public engage earlier in municipal water and energy planning.
• Mapped where information on a data center’s water and power use stays out of public view across the project life cycle, from site selection to operations, drawing on investigative reporting and public records.

Energy Market & Carbon Policy Intern

Seattle City Light

Three summer internships, 2024–2026.

• Represented the utility in RTO stakeholder processes on wholesale market design and governance for EDAM and Markets+ and on GHG compliance mechanisms, and briefed executive leadership on the utility’s positions.
• Developed the utility’s virtual power plant valuation framework, independently building a cost-benefit model to value a million-dollar VPP portfolio, and facilitated a cross-team working group that developed RFP criteria for residential DER deployment.
• Led carbon compliance analysis under Washington’s Climate Commitment Act, including allowance auction strategy and e-Tag analysis in Excel and Python, saving ratepayers more than $1M.
• Wrote internal memos aligning teams on greenhouse gas compliance strategy, and modeled historical e-Tag data to screen fuel mix disclosure compliance risk under CETA.

Electrification & Infrastructure Analyst

Office of Sustainability, Town of Acton

• Analyzed regulatory frameworks, utility incentives, and stakeholder dynamics shaping adoption of non-pipeline alternatives for building electrification, focusing on heat pump pilots in Massachusetts.
• Used an LLM to extract data from ratemaking proceedings and built an Excel benefit-cost analysis of infrastructure returns, avoided gas distribution costs, and emissions reductions, in coordination with National Grid and the town.

Energy Economics Researcher

Energy Institute at Haas & Opportunity Lab, UC Berkeley

• Built large datasets of CAISO OASIS nodal prices and outage data, retrieved through the API, to analyze market performance and reliability risk from unplanned power plant outages.
• Estimated econometric models of how generator outages and market design affect wholesale price volatility, and translated the findings into implications for CAISO outage and resilience planning.

Energy Equity Advocate

Local Clean Energy Alliance

• Coordinated community engagement on energy resilience and off-grid solutions across three counties, facilitating multilingual workshops with 100+ participants.
• Secured funding from Ava Community Energy for community outreach on rooftop solar and battery systems, and trained volunteers in canvassing with local governments and NGOs.

Equitable Housing Decarbonization Research Analyst

California Air Resources Board

• Led interviews with utilities, contractors, funding agencies, and program implementers on barriers in residential electrification programs, and coded the results to identify systemic gaps.
• Wrote reports informing state strategy for aligning program funding cycles and equity requirements.

Energy Policy Research Analyst

Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkeley (client projects)

• California Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety: analyzed utility finance structures, ratemaking proceedings, and regulatory frameworks to identify financing mechanisms that distribute the cost of wildfire mitigation investments equitably.
• California Energy Commission: analyzed federal permitting of interstate transmission, identified the institutional and regulatory barriers delaying projects, and proposed permitting reforms.

Master in Public Policy (expected)

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

• State & Local Government Policy Design and Delivery; Negotiation & Conflict Resolution; Infrastructure Finance

B.S. Environmental Science, Minor in Energy and Resources

University of California, Berkeley

• Econometrics; Energy Engineering; Utility Regulation & Ratemaking; Federal and State Energy Policy; Machine Learning