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Staff Directory

Executive Leadership

Evelyn Wang 
Vice President for Energy and Climate
enwang@mit.edu

Shane Kosinski
Executive Director for the Office of the Vice President for Energy and Climate
shanek@mit.edu

Mission Directors

Andrew Babbin 
Co-director: Preserving the Atmosphere, Land and Oceans
Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor of Chemical Oceanography and Marine Microbiology; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS)
The BabLab
babbin@mit.edu

Christopher Knittel 
Enabling New Policy Approaches
George P. Shultz Professor and Professor of Applied Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management
knittel@mit.edu

Jesse Kroll 
Co-director: Preserving the Atmosphere, Land and Oceans
Peter de Florez Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Kroll Group at MIT 
jhkroll@mit.edu

Benedetto Marelli 
Wild Cards
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Marinelli Research Group
bmarelli@mit.edu

Miho Mazereeuw 
Empowering Frontline Community Action
Associate Professor of Architecture and Urbanism, Department of Architecture
Urban Risk Lab
mmaz@mit.edu 

Elsa Olivetti 
Decarbonizing Energy and Industry
Jerry McAfee Professor in Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Olivetti Group
elsao@mit.edu

Staff

Apoorv Agarwal 
Senior Advisor
apoorv1@mit.edu

Sophia Apteker 
Administrative and Communications Assistant
sapteker@mit.edu

Reva Butensky 
Climate Education Program Coordinator
reva@mit.edu 

Evan Coleman 
Research Scientist
ecol@mit.edu

Lauren Elia 
Senior Administrative Assistant
elial@mit.edu

Douglas Foley 
Financial Coordinator
dougfole@mit.edu

Liana Frey 
Managing Director
lfrey@mit.edu

Yuly Fuentes-Medel 
Program Director
yfuentes@mit.edu 

Jerome Gately 
Senior Financial Administrator
jfgately@mit.edu

Tom Gearty 
Director of Communications
tgearty@mit.edu

Madison Goldberg 
Editorial Coordinator
mgoldb@mit.edu

Aaron Krol
Managing Editor
akrol@mit.edu

Sarah McGrath 
Managing Director
sarahmcg@mit.edu

Phoebe Merrick 
Program Coordinator
pmerrick@mit.edu

Elizabeth Moore 
Program Manager
eamoore@mit.edu

Marco Munoz 
Senior Advisor to the President
mmmunoz@mit.edu

Paige Nygaard 
Strategic Projects Coordinator
pnygaard@mit.edu

Scott Odell 
Program Scientist
sodell@mit.edu

Bethany Patten 
Executive Director, MIT Climate Policy Center
bpatten@mit.edu

Chris Rabe 
Climate Education Program Director
cjrabe@mit.edu

Brent Ridley 
Senior Advisor
baridley@mit.edu

Sydney Romagnolo
Assistant Director, Strategy; MIT Resource Development
sroma@mit.edu

Katie Rusin 
Senior Administrative Assistant
krusin@mit.edu

Melissa Zgola 
Program Manager
mzgola@mit.edu