Board
Jeanette Pablo, CEO
Jeanette Pablo is the CEO of the Climate Equity Foundation. Previously, she was the Director of the Climate Equity Initiative at Clean Air Task Force where she focused on barriers, challenges, and solutions through research and engagement with environmental justice communities.
Prior to joining CATF, Ms. Pablo was General Counsel at the Energy Futures Initiative, a clean energy think tank founded by Ernest Moniz, the 13th Secretary of Energy. She was also a major contributor to EFI’s research and analysis portfolio for advancing clean energy technologies and deep decarbonization pathways.
Ms. Pablo served as Senior Advisor and Acting Deputy Director for Energy Systems in the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at the U.S. Department of Energy. At DOE she oversaw analysis and policy related to energy systems and infrastructure, the electricity sector, North America energy policy and security, and critical materials. Ms. Pablo was Director of Federal Affairs & Senior Climate Advisor for PNM Resources from 2005-2015. Earlier in her career, she represented the Tennessee Valley Authority before Congress and the Executive Branch on energy and climate policy. And she was an energy associate at the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand.
Ms. Pablo holds a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. in Liberal Studies from Georgetown University, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia, where she focused on Soviet and East European Affairs.
Lauret Savoy. Vice President
Lauret Savoy is the David B. Truman Professor of Environmental Studies & Geology at Mount Holyoke College as well as a writer, photographer, and pilot. Winner of Mount Holyoke’s Distinguished Teaching Award and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Lauret has also held fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution and Yale University.
Lauret’s work explores how this nation’s ever-unfolding history has marked the land and this society. Her books include Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape; The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity and the Natural World; Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology; and Living with the Changing California Coast. Trace won the 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and the 2017 ASLE Creative Writing Award. It was also a finalist for the 2016 PEN American Open Book Award and Phillis Wheatley Book Award, as well as shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and Orion Book Award.
For Lauret, writing of the complex intertwinings of natural and cultural histories helps us understand the American land’s origins—and the stories we tell of ourselves in this land.
Lauret holds an A.B. in geology from Princeton University, an M.S. in earth sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. She is also a Fellow of the Geological Society of America.
David Ellis
David Ellis brings years of experience as a journalist, newsroom executive and media commentator to the Climate Equity Foundation. As a founding member of the EFI Foundation (EFIF) team, Ellis developed the brand strategy for the Washington, DC-based think tank, including the organization’s content design and logo, and guided the creation of interactive websites and social media platforms. Before EFIF, he was Chief Content Officer of CQ Roll Call, overseeing five units and 160 employees, and led the redesigns of Roll Call and CQ.com (Congressional Quarterly) while introducing new editorial products that generated an extra $5 million in revenue. At CQRC, Ellis was a proven champion of diversity, bringing in new voices, elevating in-house talent, and addressing gender-driven salary inequities. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of Moneywise, the leading UK personal finance magazine, and has worked for Bloomberg News, Time Magazine, and Dow Jones International.
Matt Mansfield
Matt Mansfield is the CEO of MG Strategy + Design; he leads projects and works hands-on with both clients and internal teams. Matt has led content, design, multimedia, and product teams at CQ Roll Call, the San Jose Mercury News, and National Geographic. He taught as a professor and program leader at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Matt also serves on the leadership team of M. Harris & Co. in Chicago as a partner in building its growing design practice.
Matt has significant experience in the climate and energy space with such clients as the EFI Foundation, Mission Possible Partnership, Energy Futures Finance Forum, Climate Advisers, Orbitas, Current, Great Lakes ReNEW, Systemiq, and RMI.
Matt received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for News Design and was celebrated as a design pioneer, a lifelong volunteer, and a mentor to a generation of creative professionals.