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Rabi Abonour

Transportation Strategist, Resilient Communities, People & Communities Program
As an active transportation advocate, Rabi Abonour believes that promoting walking, bicycling, and public transit is vital for creating cities that are healthy, equitable, and sustainable. Prior to joining NRDC, Abonour worked on the bike share and open streets programs…

Zak Accuardi

Senior Advocate, Transportation, People & Communities Program
Zak Accuardi works across the U.S. to advance equitable, low-carbon transportation policies and projects. Previously, he consulted on transportation policy and climate change mitigation with organizations including the World Bank and Project Drawdown. He also worked as a senior program…

John Bailey

Senior Advocate, Federal and State Transportation, People & Communities Program
John Bailey has over two decades of experience as an advocate for sustainable and equitable communities at the national, state, and local levels. Bailey works to ensure that transportation investments and policies benefit people of all ages, abilities, and incomes…

Max Baumhefner

Senior Attorney, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Max Baumhefner works to make our nation’s cars, trucks, and buses zero emission vehicles. He focuses on electrifying the transportation sector in a manner that also accelerates the transition to a smarter, more affordable electric grid powered by renewable resources…

Jordan Brinn

Eastern Sustainable Energy and Climate Schneider Fellow, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Jordan Brinn focuses on transportation policy and analysis. She advocates for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicle transportation electrification regulations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution burdens, as well as policies that support a robust electric vehicle charging infrastructure network…

Britt Carmon

Senior Advocate, Federal Clean Vehicles and Fuels, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Britt Carmon focuses on reducing the environmental impact of the transportation sector by encouraging the government to adopt policies that advance clean fuels and the development of energy-efficient vehicles. Prior to joining NRDC, she worked for the White House, aiding…

Amanda Eaken

Director, Transportation, People & Communities Program
Amanda Eaken is responsible for managing and overseeing a team driving ambitious climate action in 25 U.S. cities to create transportation choices like walking, biking, and public transit, and to accelerate vehicle electrification. In 2020, her team helped to advance…

Jacqueline Ennis

Policy Analyst, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Jacqueline Ennis uses data and modeling to support and design deep decarbonization policies at the state and federal levels. She works on policy efforts involving clean hydrogen development, NRDC’s clean energy advocacy in the West and Midwest, and transportation electrification…

Ashok Gupta

Senior Energy Economist, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Ashok Gupta focuses on policies relating to global warming, energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable building design, smart growth, and transportation. During former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, Gupta served as NRDC’s representative to the Mayor’s Sustainability Advisory Board and Energy…

Kathy Harris

Senior Advocate, Clean Vehicles and Fuels, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Kathy Harris leads NRDC's work on clean vehicle policies and programs that accelerate the transition to zero-emission passenger cars and trucks. Prior to joining NRDC, she worked for the state of Delaware as a planner, addressing a variety of statewide…

Samantha Henningson

Advocate, Clean Transportation, People & Communities Program
Samantha Henningson advocates for transportation options that are affordable, equitable, low-carbon, and maybe even joyful. Previously, in Saint Paul, MN, Henningson managed the EV Spot Network program—the nation’s first renewably-powered, municipally-owned carshare and curbside public charging network. Prior to that…

Yeh-Tang Huang

Schneider Sustainable Energy Fellow, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Yeh-Tang “Ricky” Huang focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector, as well as promoting building efficiency in the Northeast. Prior to joining NRDC in 2022, he was an intern at Fervo Energy and the SDGs Advisory Council…

Kit Kennedy

Managing Director, Climate & Clean Energy Program
Kit Kennedy leads NRDC's state and regional climate and clean energy advocacy across the United States with more than thirty years of experience as an environmental and clean energy attorney and advocate. She directed the Environmental Protection Bureau at the…

J.C. Kibbey

Advocate, Illinois Clean Energy, Climate & Clean Energy Program
J.C. Kibbey analyzes and advocates for policies that advance renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transportation, sustainable development, and grid modernization at the legislature, Illinois Commerce Commission, state agencies, and with other partners and decision-makers. He also works to develop policy…

Patrick King

Advocate, Southeast Mobility Choices, People & Communities Program
Patrick King leads NRDC's work to create and advocate for low-carbon, equitable transportation choices in the Southeast, focusing on partnerships and policy opportunities in North Carolina and Georgia. Prior to joining NRDC, King worked regionally as an electric transportation and clean energy…