Maria is a manager on RMI’s Carbon-Free Electricity team, where she focuses on the topic of energy poverty. Through this work, she supports regulatory decisionmakers and advocates advance policies focused on addressing energy insecurity, utility shutoffs, and other forms of energy poverty. She led the development of RMI’s Energy Poverty Policy Simulator and Disconnection Handbook as well as other data products and publications on the topic of energy assistance, shutoff protections, and low-income energy efficiency.
Background
Prior to RMI, she worked as a research assistant at Columbia University’s Center for Global Energy Policy, where she contributed to the Lancet Countdown’s Health and Climate Change 2020 US Brief on the health impact of natural gas venting and flaring.
Education
Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University
