White House Presidential Innovation Fellows

My work supports American energy dominance by positioning U.S. industry and our allies to lead in global innovation competition, strengthening production, supply chains, and the industrial base that turns research into deployable capability. Years in global health and community work across low- and middle-income countries taught me the same lesson at a different scale, not picking winners by ideology, but building systems that make power and other resources affordable, reliable, and accessible.

At the Department of Energy, my fellowship focuses on geothermal energy, expanding American use of underground heat and strengthening the programs, data, and partnerships that help projects move from study to deployment. That work depends on cross-sector collaboration, because energy security is not only a policy question but an operational one that depends on workforce, regional strength, trusted data, and institutions that can move from analysis to action without losing the people most affected along the way.