Laila Hurd, Community Engagement Intern

Laila Hurd, Community Engagement Intern

Laila Hurd Community Engagement Intern Laila is a current senior at Wellesley College studying Environmental studies and Africana studies. She is interested in expanding access to renewable energy and electric vehicles to low income communities. This fall, Laila is excited to work with MassEnergize to learn more about community engagement and local Boston organizations. Outside of work, she enjoys walking her dogs, hiking, and baking.
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Tianyi Evans Gu, Software Developer

Tianyi Evans Gu, Software Developer

Tianyi Evans Gu, Software Development Tianyi is a rising high school Junior at Phillips Academy Andover. At school, he loves coding and developing mobile apps, competing in hackathons, creative writing, and playing tennis. He is passionate about searching for ways that computer science and technology can be used to solve real-world problems, and is excited to work with MassEnergize in empowering climate action towards a sustainable future!
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Jo Jagger, Administrative Assistant

Jo Jagger, Administrative Assistant

Jo Jagger Administrative Assistant Jo comes to MassEnergize with previous experience in Project Management and Communications. Jo holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Hispanic Studies and is originally from the United Kingdom. She moved to the United States in 2020 with her husband and two children. When not working Jo enjoys taking advantage of being in New England with weekends spent skiing, hiking, paddle boarding and at the beach.
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Gregg Sparkman, Advisor to the Board

Gregg Sparkman, Advisor to the Board

Gregg Sparkman Advisor to the Board Gregg Sparkman advises MassEnergize on community engagement. Gregg is an Assistant Professor at Boston College in the Psychology and Neuroscience department. He is the director of the Social Influence and Social Change lab, which studies motivations to change behavior and policy preference and how to advocate for change. His lab collaborates with non-profit, public, and private organizations, to develop and assess interventions and campaigns of change to meet environmental…
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Satrajit Ghosh, Software Engineer

Satrajit Ghosh, Software Engineer

Satrajit Ghosh Advisor to the Board Satrajit Ghosh has been developing informatics projects for over twenty years, including large open-source projects in the neuroscience community, and leading efforts in standardization across many disciplines. He has extensive knowledge of front-end, back-end and serverless technologies and has created tools that analyze and model terabytes of data. He is a professor at Harvard and Principal Research Scientist at MIT.
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Phil Giudice, Advisor to the Board

Phil Giudice, Advisor to the Board

Phil Giudice Advisor to the Board Phil Giudice is an advisor to the MassEnergize Board of Directors. Phil has 45 years’ experience in the energy industry as a geologist, consultant, entrepreneur, executive, board director and energy official in state and federal roles. Most recently, Phil served as Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy during the startup of the Biden- Harris administration. Phil is the Board Chair for FirstLight which operates hydropower facilities in…
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Harvey Michaels, Advisor to the Board

Harvey Michaels, Advisor to the Board

Harvey Michaels Advisor to the Board Harvey Michaels is an MIT Sloan Lecturer on the emerging Climate Solution Economy for the Sloan Sustainability Initiative, in collaboration with the International Urban and Regional Studies Program (SPURS). Harvey also directs the Climate and Cities Project in affiliation with MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative, where he served on the faculty team for The Future of the Grid research study. Harvey provided leadership to the formation of MIT’s Efficiency Forward…
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Frimpong Opoku-Agyemang, Software Engineer

Frimpong Opoku-Agyemang, Software Engineer

Frimpong Opoku-Agyemang Software Engineer Frimpong Opoku-Agyemang is a young Ghanaian with an ever growing love for software development. He has experience with a wide variety of back end and front end technologies. In the future, his dream is to contribute to raising Ghana’s standards in technology to meet the growing world’s requirement. In his pursuit of this, he is a year into majoring in Computer Science at the African Leadership University (Mauritius).
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Tahiru Abdullai, Software Engineer

Tahiru Abdullai, Software Engineer

Tahiru Abdullai Software Engineer Tahiru is a software engineer based in Ghana with immense experience in both frontend and backend technologies. As a Physics (computing-focused) graduate of KNUST, he is looking forward to furthering his education in computer science.
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Samuel Opoku-Agyemang, Software Engineer

Samuel Opoku-Agyemang, Software Engineer

Samuel Opoku-Agyemang Software Engineer Samuel Opoku-Agyemang is a software engineer with experience in building both backend and frontend systems. He has done software engineering work at Slack, Google and conducted data science projects at Nielsen. Sam received his BS in Computer Science from Cornell University in 2019.
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