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- Sanya Carley Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director
- Bill Cohen Associate Director
- Cornelia Colijn Executive Director
- Arwen Kozak Senior Research Coordinator
- Thabo Lenneiye Managing Director, Goldsmith Sustainable Agriculture Fund
- Angela Pachon Special Advisor
- Lindsey Samahon Communications Director
- Oscar Serpell Deputy Director
- Mollie Simon Senior Communications Specialist
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- Kimberle Szczurowski Financial Administrative Coordinator
- Shelley Welton Presidential Distinguished Professor
- Jennifer Wilcox Presidential Distinguished Professor
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Eugénie L. Birch is co-director of the Penn Institute for Urban Research, Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education, and chair of the Graduate Group in City and Regional Planning.
Sanya Carley is the Mark Alan Hughes Faculty Director of the Kleinman Center and Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Stephanie Carlisle is a lecturer in Landscape Artchiture in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Dennis Culhane is the Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy in the School of Social Policy and Practice. He is a social science researcher with primary expertise in the area of homelessness and assisted housing policy.
Tulia Falleti is the Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Director of the Latin American and Latinx Studies Program, and Senior Fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics.
Lance Freeman is the Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor of City and Regional Planning, and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies how neighborhoods change and evolve over time, the role neighborhoods play in people’s lives.
Heather Huntington is the executive director of the Penn Development Research Institute-DevLab. Her research interests include land tenure, land administration, natural resource management.
Ioana Marinescu is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Siva Mathiyazhagan is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice. He is also the Associate Director of Strategies and Impact at the SAFELab at Penn and RSM Assembly Fellows at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Senior Fellow, Carnot Prize Winner
Jacqueline Patterson
Founder and Executive Director, The Chisholm Legacy Project
Jacqueline Patterson is the founder and executive director of The Chisholm Legacy Project, a resource hub for Black frontline climate justice leadership. She is the recipient of the 2024 Carnot Prize and a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center.
Faculty Fellow, Penn Energy Expert
Nicholas Pevzner
Assistant Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture
Nicholas Pevzner is a faculty fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and an assistant professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Vincent Reina is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Oscar Serpell oversees all student programming, alumni engagement, faculty and student grants, and visiting scholars. He is also a researcher, writer, and policy analyst working on research initiatives with students and Center partners.
Shelley Welton is Presidential Distinguished Professor of Law and Energy Policy with the Kleinman Center and Penn Carey Law. Her research focuses on how climate change is transforming energy and environmental law and governance.
Bethany Wiggin is a Professor of German and the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities. Her research spans fields usually held apart: early modern German and Atlantic cultural history, and the environmental humanities.