People
Staff & Leadership
Bill Cohen
Center Coordinator
Cornelia Colijn
Executive Director
Lucy Corlett
Research Associate
Mark Alan Hughes
Founding 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
Sage Basri is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member and an undergraduate in the School of Arts and Sciences majoring in Environmental Studies. Basri was also a 2021 Undergraduate Seminar Fellow.
Julian Brubaker is a master’s student at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice. He is also completing a certificate in Energy Policy and Management from the Kleinman Center and is a member of the Kleinman Center’s Student Advisory Council.
Emma Glaser is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member and an undergraduate student in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) program. Glasser was also a 2020 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Adam Goudjil is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member and an undergraduate student studying urban studies at the College of Arts and Sciences. Goudjil was also a 2021 Undergraduate Student Fellow.
Lindsey Hover is a Master of City and Regional Planning student at the Weitzman School. She is also completing a certificate in Energy Policy and Management from the Kleinman Center and is a member of the Kleinman Center’s Student Advisory Council.
Walter Johnsen is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of chemistry and he was the 2022 Kleinman Philadelphia Energy Authority Fellow. He is also a member of the Kleinman Center’s Student Advisory Council.
Caroline Magdolen is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member and an undergraduate student studying in the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research (VIPER) program. Magdolen was also a 2021 Undergraduate Seminar Fellow.
Max Pisciotta is a member of the Kleinman Center’s Student Advisory Council. Pisciotta was a 2021 Kleinman Birol Fellow at the International Energy Agency and is a Ph.D. student studying chemical engineering.
Angela Sun is a Kleinman Center Student Advisory Council Member. She was also a 2021 Kleinman Center Undergraduate Seminar Fellow.
Katherine Vaz Gomes is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department and a graduate research assistant in the Clean Energy Conversions Lab. She is a member of the Kleinman Center’s Student Advisory Council.
Sam Wong is a third-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. He is also completing a certificate in Energy Policy and Management from the Kleinman Center and is a member of the Kleinman Center’s Student Advisory Council.
Eva Zhou is the 2023 Kleinman Philadelphia Energy Authority Fellow. Eva is pursuing a master’s degree in Environmental Studies at the School of Arts & Science.