Our friendly experts share the common goal of helping everyone bring their whole talent to fixing climate change. Book a session to learn how your skills are useful in climate and connect with a few others on the same path – it’s free! 

How does it work?

  • Find an expert you wish to chat to below, and use the sign-up link to pick a time when they are available.
  • Show up (you will receive reminder emails) and have a chat!

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If you’re an expert wishing to help people find climate work in your field, please apply here.

Our Experts

Please note: several experts host group sessions due to high demand.

Olya Irzak

I am the CEO of Frost Methane, a company mitigating methane emissions from the permafrost & coal mining.

Talk to Me About

  • Methane emissions mitigation
  • Computer science for climate change
  • Getting started in climate
  • Cleantech
  • Anything other climate topic (the weirder the better!)

My Experience

I’m currently an advisor to fusion investment fund Strong Atomics in addition to my day job. Previously, I gained extensive experience in electrification and clean tech at Zola Electric, Google Energy, and X, Google’s “moonshot factory.”

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Steve Isley

I am a sustainable shopping expert, aerospace engineer, policy analyst, and behavioral scientist. I’m passionate about helping people make more sustainable choices.

Talk to Me About

  • Sustainable shopping habits
  • Customer experience design
  • Customer research
  • Policy
  • Behavioral science
  • Big Tech and sustainability
  • Sustainable products
  • The Climate Pledge

My Experience

My experience has varied widely over the years. I’ve worked in sustainable shopping at Amazon (where I helped launch The Climate Pledge), behavioral science at NREL, policy analysis at RAND Corporation, and wind tunnel management at the University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory.

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Amanda Dwelley

I’m an energy and climate “people” researcher, and connect the dots between people, data and decision-makers to ensure our climate investments benefit priority populations.

Talk to Me About

  • Environmental Justice and underserved communities criteria and screening tools
  • Energy and climate program measurement and evaluation – including equity metrics
  • Weaving research into program and project design
  • (Trying to) build a house with lower-impact materials

My Experience

Thirteen years of energy program evaluation for utilities (including low-income, small business and community programs) + EJ and disadvantaged communities maps, criteria, and equity metrics – to ensure our climate $ reach the right people. I’ve managed large research projects for utilities and state agencies, and state stakeholder processes around energy and climate justice. I was the Technical Consultant for New York’s draft definition of disadvantaged communities, am involved in climate and energy equity in Maine, and Justice40 implementation research nationwide.

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Deanna Pratt

I’m a marketing leader in climate tech that’s growing companies focused on decarbonization and resiliency. From students to professionals, I’m available to help marketers invest their talents into scaling climate solutions.

Talk to Me About

  • How to become a marketer in climate tech
  • How to build and transfer your skills towards climate solutions and companies
  • Marketing yourself as a professional in climate tech: social media, resume, interviews, and accolades

My Experience

I’m working to accelerate decarbonization by investing my career in climate tech and empowering others to do the same. I’ve had the privilege to help dozens of mission-driven founders successfully launch and grow climate tech startups, including leading marketing for teams that raised over $17.6 million in combined funding. I’ve also helped hundreds of people start careers in sustainability with digital content.

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Patricia Silva

I am a mentor and advisor to carbon removal (CDR) companies and an active investor in early-stage climate tech. Currently, I am a Director at CUR8 and Venture Partner at Satgana.

Talk to Me About

  • Anything CDR and related
  • Startups – founding, fundraising, and more
  • Getting started in CDR

My Experience

I co-founded the Carbon Removal Center, a UK-based nonprofit organisation that advances sustainable carbon removal and have advised and worked with early-stage CDR startups (e.g. 44.01). I have a BSc and MSc in Engineering and an MBA from Berkeley Haas in Energy & Cleantech.

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Will Wylie-Modro

I am predominantly a software engineer with experience working in AgTech, Cloud, and Real-time 3D startups. I have spent much of the last 2 years attempting to understand the challenges in transitioning to regenerative agriculture and helping startups in that space

Talk to Me About

  • The markets/ecosystem to support regenerative agriculture
  • Tech’s potential role in regenerative agriculture
  • Software Development / Cloud Infrastructure / Real-time 3D

My Experience

After graduating in physics, I jumped into the local startup scene with a small Private Cloud company then later went on to work in startups in the Game Development industry and now contributes to a regenerative-focused AgTech startup.

While researching the barriers and supporting ecosystem of regenerative agriculture over the last couple of years I have had the opportunity to connect and learn from many farmers, startups, non-profits, and investors in the space.

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Chadia Abreu Manon

I am a law and policy expert in energy and clean technologies with a focus on emerging markets and energy transitions. I have contributed to California’s ground-breaking efforts to become carbon neutral, working with innovative incentives for the adoption of new clean technologies and the integration of climate equity considerations.

Talk to Me About

  • Working on climate policy.
  • Climate policy’s role at the global, national, and local levels.
  • Clean energy transitions and public policy-making process.
  • Regulatory strategies, cost-benefit analyses, and the design and implementation of new legislation and policies.
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Sanjoy Sanyal

Sanjoy is the Founder of Regain Paradise and consultant to think tanks (WRI, Santa Clara University), consultancies (adelphi, Tetratech), international financial institutions (KfW), donors (GIZ, USAID) and impact investors.

Talk to Me About

  • Deploying climate finance and impact investing
  • Climate innovation and ecosystems landscape
  • Learning for a climate career

My Experience

Sanjoy has been consulting in the climate finance field for thirteen years. His clients include both public (international development financial institutions and donors) and private (impact) investors. He worked in climate finance projects in ten countries covering South Asia, Southeast Asia, East and West Africa. He also hosts a podcast on climate innovation.

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Luke Squire

I’m a product manager building software products to help speed the transition away from carbon-emitting energy sources and towards a more equitable, green economy.

Talk to Me About

  • Working in product management
  • Building clean tech products

My Experience

I also have experience in political tech and formerly worked in campaigns and on Capitol Hill. I was an early employee at Arcadia, based in DC.

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Irina Fedorenko

I am a serial green tech entrepreneur based in Oxford, UK. I’m currently the Chief Carbon Officer at Vlinder.

Talk to Me About

  • Green tech entrepreneurship
  • Nature-based solutions
  • Startups & non-profits
  • Carbon offsets

My Experience

In addition to my corporate role, I manage the Caux Dialogue on Environment and Security. Previously, I co-founded BioCarbon Engineering (drone-based mangrove planting), Kindness Collective (social enterprise supporting women’s farming cooperatives in India), and Beta-Earth (sustainable economic development in local communities).

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Ben Swainbank

Ben Swainbank is the president and founder of Oceanid MRV. They work with companies that use the vast ocean resources to remove CO2 from the air, and offer mCDR companies […]

Talk to Me About

  • Founding a climate company
  • Carbon Markets
  • Ocean Science
  • CDR pathways

My Experience

* Recent climate company founder
* Expert on marine CDR pathways
* Works at the intersection of commercial CDR, marine science, and carbon markets
* WoC channel coordinator for #learn-ocean

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Marc O’Brien

I help designers become climate designers. From college students to professionals, I share approaches designers can implement in taking climate action in the work they do no matter what creative industry they’re in.

Talk to Me About

  • How to become a climate designer
  • How to transfer your skills towards climate solutions and companies
  • “Climifying” your existing design work with climate in mind

My Experience

Since 2016, I’ve become knowledgeable of the science, language, solutions, and approaches needed to address our climate emergency. As a climate designer, brand strategist, and educator, I’m able to take what I’ve learned and apply it to design. Over the past six years running The Determined and Climate Designers, I’ve led teams on a variety of projects amplifying the work of climate-focused initiatives.

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Daisy Pistey-Lyhne

I am a systems thinker and network weaver who designs interdisciplinary strategies and programs that address gaps in the climate movement at the intersections of politics, policy, data, science, business, environmental justice, philanthropy, community organizing, and communications.

Talk to Me About

  • Political Campaigns, community engagement & organizing
  • Policy Advocacy, movement building & non-profit fundraising
  • Effective communication with a diverse audience

My Experience

I have worked for 20 years designing and implementing strategies to reach and engage diverse stakeholders and communities across various verticals in climate and energy – solar, sustainable agriculture, urban planning, environmental justice, public health, public utilities, local campaigns, national philanthropy and more. With a wide breadth of experience across sectors, I’m able to offer meaningful insights and coaching to those transitioning sectors.

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Joe Rollin

I have a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering and currently work in industrial biotech business development.

Talk to Me About

  • Climate and biotech
  • Working with the US Department of Energy (DOE)
  • Business development

My Experience

Prior to this role, I was a fellow at both ARPA-E and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and served in the U.S. Army.

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Troy Hodges

I am a data scientist at grid analytics company Kevala with extensive clean energy experience.

Talk to Me About

  • Data science for energy
  • Getting a data role in clean energy
  • Energy policy & regulation
  • DEI in energy

My Experience

I have extensive clean energy experience in both the private and public sectors, including time at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Clean Energy Leadership Institute.

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Patrick Sheehan

I’m a data scientist & software engineer at myst.ai, where I use machine learning to forecast the supply and demand of electricity.

Talk to Me About

  • Data science & software for climate
  • Clean energy startups
  • Technical data science & engineering topics
  • Clean energy topics
  1. Electricity rates/tariffs
  2. Energy forecasting
  3. DER optimization

My Experience

I have been working on software and data science applied to clean energy problems for nearly a decade. Previously, I co-founded Nanogrid to reduce the cost of solar, energy storage, and EVs and I helped reduce costs for clean energy companies as a software engineer at Genability.

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Ann Stapleton

I manage large agricultural grants programs and have a background in education, workforce development, strategy, and AI/analytics.

Talk to Me About

  • Climate-positive high-impact regenerative agriculture
  • Impact at the right scale and timing
  • Education and workforce development
  • AI and analytics in agriculture

My Experience

I am a program manager for research, education and extension Climate-smart Agriculture, Justice40, Nutrition Security and Equity US goals, with a special focus on cross-government coordination and AI for Climate-Smart Ag and Forestry.  I previously served as National Science Foundation Program Officer for multiple science areas and workforce development, with a focus on under-served states.

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Andrew Chang

I am an experienced engineer & entrepreneur with experience building complex hardware, software, and services in energy & clean tech.

Talk to Me About

  • Product development
  • Fundraising
  • IP strategy
  • Manufacturing
  • Energy & cleantech

My Experience

I have experience in climate & energy with the U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and The Alliance for Climate Protection.

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Dave Fork

I am a renewable energy technologist at Google and serve as President of Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange, a bicycle repair and exchange nonprofit I founded nearly 30 years ago.

Talk to Me About

  • Energy & cleantech
  • Founding and operating a nonprofit
  • Lowering your carbon footprint
  • Climate-friendly home renovation

My Experience

I am passionate about helping people take climate action in their personal lives, an avid biker, and a sustainable home renovation aficionado.

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