People
Staff & Leadership
Sanya Carley
Faculty Director
Bill Cohen
Center Coordinator
Cornelia Colijn
Executive Director
Arwen Kozak
Research Associate
Thabo Lenneiye
Managing Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund
Angela Pachon
Special Advisor
Lindsey Samahon
Communications Director
Oscar Serpell
Associate Director of Academic Programming
Mollie Simon
Senior Communications Specialist
Andy Stone
Energy Policy Now Host and Producer
Kimberle Szczurowski
Financial Administrative Coordinator
Shelley Welton
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Jennifer Wilcox
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Heather Huntington
Director, Penn Development Research Institute-DevLab
Heather Huntington is the executive director of the Penn Development Research Institute-DevLab. Her research interests include land tenure, land administration, natural resource management.
Allison Lassiter is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the Weitzman School of Design. Her work examines opportunities to use landscape infrastructure and emerging technologies to build resilience and increase adaptive capacity.
Thabo Lenneiye
Managing Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund
Thabo Lenneiye is the Managing Director of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund. She’s responsible for operationalizing the fund, launching initiatives focused on sustainable agriculture, and framing a research agenda that intersects with energy policy.
Samantha McBride
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, SEAS
Samantha McBride is the William K. Gemmill Term Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania.
Laia Mogas-Soldevila
Assistant Professor of Architecture, Weitzman School
Laia Mogas-Soldevila is an Assistant Professor of Graduate Architecture and Director of DumoLab Research at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.
Thomas Parsons is the Marie A. Moore Professor of Animal Welfare and Ethics at the School of Veterinary Medicine, New Bolton Center. He directs the Center for Stewardship Agriculture and Food at PennVet.
Domenic Vitiello
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Weitzman
Domenic Vitiello is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design.