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Johan Stagstrup
Master of Laws '23 Master of International Mgmt., Sustainability '23 Johan B. Stagstrup is a dual degree LLM and MA International Management and Sustainability Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Sciences Po Paris. At Penn Law, he serves as an International Associate Editor for the Journal of International Law and as LLM representative for the Environmental Law Project. Prior to Penn, Johan worked at the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg. He is interested in international environmental law, climate litigation, and the theoretical questions that arise from courts’ engagement with the environment.
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Morgan Allgrove-Hodges
Master of Social Policy '22 Morgan Allgrove-Hodges (she/her) is a second-year master's student in Social Policy from Hartford, Connecticut. She focuses on urban inequalities, sustainability, and transit policy. She believes transit is a critical way to improve racial and economic equities in cities and a powerful tool for mitigating climate change. She is excited to be a part of the interdisciplinary cohort of CL@P to exchange ideas with peers across the university. She also works at the Penn LGBT Center and a rock climbing gym.
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Devasree Guggiri
Master of Environmental Studies '22 Devasree Guggiri is a second year Masters student in the Environmental Studies program with a concentration in Sustainability. Her interests lie in Decarbonization, Circular Economy. and Life Cycle Thinking. She worked as a Summer Sustainability Associate at Just Salad and is currently a Sr. Project Manager at Penn Sustainable Consulting where her team is working on product life cycle assessment for a brewery in Philadelphia. As a part of her capstone, she is assessing the supply chain risks for Rare Earth Elements and how it would impact the transition of our economy to a clean tech sphere. She holds a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering. In her free time, Devasree loves traveling, reading and playing tennis.
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Claire Hill
Juris Doctor ‘24 Claire Hill is a second-year law student at the Carey Law School where she serves as a board member for the Environmental Law Project and First Generation Professionals, and as an Associate Editor of The Regulatory Review. Prior to law school, Claire was the Director of Administration for the management company of a medical cannabis dispensary. She received a BA in International Affairs from the George Washington University.
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Katherine Magee
Master of Business Administration '23 Katherine Magee is a second-year MBA student at Wharton where she is pursuing a major in Business, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Before Wharton, Katherine worked at Bain & Company as a Consultant where here work was split between Bain’s Private Equity Group and Bain’s Performance Improvement Group. Outside of Bain, Katherine also worked at a climate-tech start-up that utilized AI/ML to improve the profitability of batteries and renewables. This past summer, Katherine worked for ExxonMobil where her work focused on developing a strategy to manage risks in the energy transition and accelerate ExxonMobil’s Low Carbon Solutions business unit. Going forward, Katherine is interested in the intersection of business, policy, and technology to accelerate the energy transition while prioritizing energy justice. Katherine holds a BA and BBA from the University of Texas at Austin where she graduated with honors.
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Anushka Samant
Master of City Planning '24 Anushka Samant is a first-year master's student in the City Planning program at the Weitzman School of Design studying technology, climate, and cities. She is interested in high-density settlements, resiliency planning, cultural geographies, and investigating the intersection of the built environment and ecology. Before coming to Penn, she worked as an urban researcher on issues related to housing, social equity, and climate justice with communities that are victims of socio-spatial discrimination. In her free time, she experiments with data visualization to communicate urban and climate policies and discourse through mixed media.
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Rupesh Jeyaram
Master of Environmental Studies ‘23 Bio coming soon.
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Alexa Ringer
Master of City Planning '24 Alexa Ringer is currently pursuing a Masters degree in City Planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Her concentration is in Land Use and Environmental Planning, and she is interested in the impacts of sprawl on urban environments & mobility. She is also a planning consultant at Make Communities, a small firm in Buffalo, NY focused on racial equity and access, where she provides technical assistance and strategic planning to community nonprofits and land trusts. Work she has done has included outdoor programming with Girl Scouts, implementing community engagement for a regional bicycle master plan, and developing a High Line project. Prior to her matriculation at Penn, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from the University at Buffalo. While living in Western New York, she worked at a bicycle shop and led bike rides for trans, women, and nonbinary cyclists. Following her graduation from Penn, she hopes to become a city planner and utilize zoning and other progressive land use planning tools
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Jia Yang Kwok
Master of City Planning ‘24 Jia Yang Kwok is a graduate student in the Master of City Planning program at the School of Design. He is interested in the climate change adaptation and resilience of Southeast Asian cities, especially in the fields of climate finance and technology. Jia Yang received a BA from Yale-NUS College, majoring in Anthropology and holding a minor in Urban Studies.
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Emily Parrish
Master of Business Administration '24 Emily Parrish is currently pursuing her MBA at The Wharton School with a major in Finance. Emily began her career in public sector consulting following her graduation from Texas A&M University with honors. Emily then worked for a UCLA-affiliated nonprofit, Project on Resources & Governance, while living in Sierra Leone for six months. She collaborated closely with Sierra Leone’s National Minerals Agency to address corruption in the minerals sector nationwide. Most recently, Emily was with International Finance Corporation, the private sector investing arm of the World Bank Group. Emily implemented a methodology that measures the trade-offs of financial returns and development impact for IFC’s investment portfolio. Emily is interested in utilizing investment to promote equitable clean energy transition.
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Sheila Garcia
Master of Business Administration ‘23 Sheila Garcia is a second-year MBA student at The Wharton School, where she is majoring in Business, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. Prior to Wharton, Sheila played multiple roles in the energy sector. First, she was a marketer at EnterSolar, a commercial solar division of EDF Renewables. Then she became the Vice President of Young Professionals in Energy NYC, where she executed a variety of educational energy events. Finally, she was an analyst at Indigo Advisory Group, where she developed AI/ML technology proposals for electric utilities. This past summer, Sheila was an ESG associate at Albertsons, a grocery-retailer. She primarily focused on packaging data and supplier insights. Sheila plans to pursue a career in corporate ESG and environmental justice.
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Cecelia Coffey
Juris Doctor '24 CeCe Coffey is a second year law student and also is pursuing the Kleinman Center’s Certificate in Energy Management and Policy. At the law school, CeCe is focusing her coursework on energy law, with a specific emphasis on energy market regulation. Prior to starting school at Penn, CeCe worked for six years in the energy field, including spending four years working on energy and capacity market design and transmission planning at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Outside of school, CeCe stays involved with the Princeton Internships in Civic Service program and the Clean Energy Leadership Institute. She spends her free time playing water polo, downhill skiing, and patronizing Amtrak. CeCe earned an AB in Public & International Affairs at Princeton University.
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Franklin Parker
Master of Business Administration ‘24 Franklin Parker is a first-year MBA student at The Wharton School where he is majoring in Business, Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. He also serves as an Investment Associate with Wharton Impact Investing Partners. Franklin started his career in management consulting before transitioning to the Value Creation team at Siris Capital Group, a Technology-focused private equity firm. He is interested in the intersection of business, technology, and climate change, and plans to pursue a career in climate tech investing after Wharton.
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Jason Mah
Master of Business Administration ‘24 Jason Mah is a dual-degree student completing his MBA at Wharton and a Masters of International Studies with a focus on the East & Southeast Asia region from The Lauder Institute. He is passionate about climate solutions and furthered this passion at The Nature Conservancy working on scaling coral reef restoration. Jason is excited to engage with his fellow CL@P fellows and the broader community to advance the discourse on climate urgency and meaningful solutions.
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Margaret Zheng
Master of Environmental Studies ‘24 Margaret Zheng is currently completing a Master's degree in Environmental Studies. Margaret is passionate about green investment in the real estate market (especially in urbanising third-world countries) and believes in impact investment and the collective power of individuals.
Margaret holds a BA from University of Cambridge and specialized in Land Economy with a focus on real estate finance, law and development economics. |
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Jack Rummler
Master of Spatial Analytics ‘23 Jack Rummler is a Master of Urban Spatial Analytics student in the Weitzman School of Design. He aspires to work at the intersection of climate resiliency and spatial data analysis, with research interests in coastal resilience, land use change, and international climate change policy. He has previously worked in county-level community development, political advocacy and campaigning, and completed research in the fields of multi-modal transportation methods and impacts, and city-level resilience planning. Jack holds a Bachelor of Science in Sustainability and the Built Environment from the University of Florida.
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Maura Gibbs
PhD Chemistry ‘25 Maura Gibbs is a third-year PhD student and a Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology (VIEST) graduate fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Penn. Her research focuses on developing catalysts for the dehydrogenation of polyolefins, with an ultimate goal of allowing upcycling of discarded plastic to more valuable specialty polymers. Prior to Penn, Maura received a B.A. in Chemistry from Oberlin College.
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Hannah Winn
Master of Environmental Studies ‘24 Hannah Winn is a Masters of Environmental Studies candidate concentrating in Sustainability and Environmental Policy. Her professional interests include stormwater management and clean water access. Throughout her studies, she has interned for the Philadelphia Water Department where she worked to develop green stormwater infrastructure projects throughout the city. Prior to Upenn, Hannah worked as a landscape designer creating public spaces for all.
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Jeromy Gotschall
Doctor of Medicine ‘24 |
Victoria Fethke
Master of Mechanical Engineering ‘23 |
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Jeromy Gotschall is a fourth year M.D. student and Health Disparities Research Fellow in the Takeshita Lab at the Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology. His research explores how urban environmental inequities and policies of institutionalized racism, such as redlining, shape disparities in chronic inflammatory skin disease. He is passionate about promoting greenspaces as public health resources, understanding the interaction between environmental pollutants and health, and reducing the carbon footprint of medical institutions.
Prior to medical school, Jeromy completed a Fulbright Fellowship in Colombia and holds a B.A. in neuroscience from Northwestern University. He plays in the Philadelphia Stonewall LGBTQ+ kickball league and loves learning new languages. |
Victoria Fethke is a second-year Accelerated Master student in Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics with a concentration in Energy Engineering as well as a fourth-year Bachelor student in Physics. She works as an Energy Consultant at Venture Lab and as a Graduate Student Fellow at the Singh Center for Nanotechnology. Outside of class, she is involved with researching Energy Policy at Perry World House and working on climate career development at Penn Climate Ventures. She is excited to engage with the interdisciplinary CL@P community and connect graduate and undergraduate efforts in climate action.
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