People
Staff & Leadership
Sanya Carley
Co-Faculty Director
Bill Cohen
Center Coordinator
Cornelia Colijn
Executive Director
Mark Alan Hughes
Co-Faculty Director
Angela Pachon
Research Director
Lindsey Samahon
Communications Director
Oscar Serpell
Associate Director of Academic Programming
Mollie Simon
Communications Coordinator
Andy Stone
Energy Policy Now Host and Producer
Kimberle Szczurowski
Administrative Assistant
Shelley Welton
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Jennifer Wilcox
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Eugenie Birch
Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education
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 faculty co-director of the Kleinman Center and Presidential Distinguished Professor of Energy Policy and City Planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Stephanie Carlisle
Lecturer, Landscape Architecture
Stephanie Carlisle is a lecturer in Landscape Artchiture in the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Tulia Falleti
Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science
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.
Ioana Marinescu
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
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.
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
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning
Vincent Reina is an assistant professor of city and regional planning at the Stuart Weitzman School of Design.
Oscar Serpell
Associate Director of Academic Programming
Oscar Serpell oversees student engagement activities, new student programming, and alumni connections. He also participates in several key research projects at the center and also writes blog posts and policy digests on timely energy policy topics.
Shelley Welton
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Shelley Welton is a 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 an Associate Professor of German and the Founding Director of the Penn Program in Environmental Humanities.