Jennifer Rennicks, Federal Policy Director, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
May 1st, 2011 ›
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Jennifer oversees federal policy issues for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, serving as the primary liaison between SACE’s programs and diverse staff and our region’s Congressional offices in Washington and in our Southeastern states. Her primary focus is to educate policy makers and their staff on the challenges our region faces from global warming impacts and the clean energy solutions and federal climate policies that are at hand. In addition, Jennifer serves as chair of the advisory board of the Southeast Climate and Energy Network.
An experienced advocate, writer, coordinator and public speaker, Jennifer previously worked as the watershed project manager at Upstate Forever in Greenville, SC. Before that, she was employed by the Southern Environmental Law Center in Asheville, NC; the Ecosystem Management Initiative in Ann Arbor, MI; the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism in Columbia, SC; and the School for Field Studies in Costa Rica, Central America. Jennifer earned a Master of Science in Environmental Policy from the University of Michigan in 2000, focusing on community conservation and protected-areas management through the Belize Audubon Society in Belize, Central America for her masters project. While at the University of Michigan, Jennifer earned a certificate in environmental dispute resolution. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Environmental Studies from Tufts University in 1993, including a semester spent in Costa Rica studying sustainable development studies. You can follow Jennifer’s clean energy posts on Twitter.
