Elizabeth (Betta) Broad
Campaign Director
As Deputy Director of Earth Day Initiative, she organized the major Earth Day festivals in NYC for five years before joining the campaign to ban fracking. She co-produced a series of videos called “Love NY: don’t frack it up!” and worked with advocates across the state to successfully ban fracking in New York. While working for Catskill Mountainkeeper she created the RenewableNY program that subsequently received a $1.8 million award from NYSERDA to expand Solarize campaigns across 15 counties.
In 2016, she helped launch the New Yorkers for Clean Power campaign and continues to serve as NYCP’s director, working collaboratively with an extensive network of advocates to accelerate the shift off fossil fuels in the building, transportation and power sectors. She recently joined the team at the Association for Energy Affordability as the Director of Advocacy and Organizing where she primarily works on advancing energy efficiency, equitable electrification, and clean energy policy, programs and legislation that benefit low-income communities in New York. She serves on the boards of directors of Communities for Local Power and Brooklyn for Peace. She was appointed to the City of Kingston’s Climate Smart Commission, the Ulster County Climate Smart Committee and the Power Generation Advisory Panel for the NYS Climate Action Council, making her the only person in New York to serve on a climate action advisory board at the city, county and state level.
Lisa Marshall
Advocacy & Organizing Director
Prior to HeatSmart Tompkins, Lisa worked as a community organizer with the climate organization Mothers Out Front where she built and supported multiple local organizing teams around New York State. As a community organizer, she recruited and trained volunteers and helped them to shape, execute, and win local climate campaigns. She also collaborated with allies on multiple statewide campaigns and mobilizations. Within Mothers Out Front, she helped to architect and launch a multi-state “Beyond Gas” campaign.
A long-time member of the Renewable Heat Now campaign team, Lisa has been at the forefront of advocacy for building energy efficiency and heat pump adoption policy at the state level where she advocated effectively for bringing affordable, equitable building electrification to scale through education and outreach, messaging, lobbying and building grassroots pressure on elected officials and state agencies.
Lisa’s long-standing interest in climate change began decades ago when she wrote her first high school research paper on global warming. In graduate school, her research focused on changes in soil biogeochemistry due to climate and desertification. It wasn’t until moving to NY’s Southern Tier and buying a home that was leased to a gas company, that she became directly involved in climate and energy advocacy. Lisa holds an M.S. in Earth Science from Dartmouth College and a B.A. in Geology from Claremont McKenna College (via Pomona College).
Anshul Gupta
Policy & Research Director
As a clean-energy enthusiast, Anshul has been an early adopter of EVs, rooftop PV, and a geothermal heat pump in his all-electric home. He has been active in climate advocacy since 2020, starting with his participation in the successful campaign to stop a crude oil pipeline through southwest Memphis, followed by participating in The Climate Reality Project’s efforts for the passage of the federal Inflation Reduction Act and stopping the Mountain Valley Pipeline, etc. Since the beginning of 2022, he has been an active member of the Renewable Heat Now campaign for a just, affordable, and timely decarbonization of New York’s buildings. Anshul is a Board member of Environmental Leaders of Color and Hudson Valley Youth Robotics. He has worked with FIRST LEGO League teams on several projects with environmental and climate themes that have won awards, publications, and even a patent. These include working with Pepsi Research on reduced plastic bottles, a thermal management system to protect dogs trapped in hot cars, reducing freshwater pollution from road salt, and generating power on a future Mars colony.
Melissa Iachetta
Program Manager
Brynn Fuller-Becker
Communications & Advocacy Manager
Cal Trumann
Education & Careers Coordinator
Diana Michaelson
Junior Clean Power Fellow
Leila Tevlin
Junior Clean Power Fellow
Sameeha Khan
Communications Intern
She has also served as a Youth Sustainability Lead for a mutual aid organization, Southside Action Pact. In this role, she led street clean-up events in her neighborhood in Queens, NY. She also worked with local businesses to improve their sustainability practices and educate them on how environmental racism may impact their lives as small business owners in a low-income community. She has also served on the Youth E-Board of the Climate and Resilience Education Task Force (CRETF), where she worked with local government officials to improve legislation on climate education.
As she explores environmental justice as a human rights issue, Sameeha is now partaking in a Board Mentorship Program with Amnesty International USA, where she will be working with board members to understand the internal workings of large grassroots organizations such as AIUSA. She is also an intern for the Powerful United Ladies Striving to Elevate (PULSE) on her college campus, where she helps create a safe space for women of color to discuss important social issues.
Ayman Habib
Communications Intern
Kenji Salinas
Renewables Outreach Intern
April Ransom
Renewables Outreach Intern
Tom Konrad
Clean Energy Coach
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Samrat Pathania
Clean Energy Coach
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Steve Wehr
Clean Energy Coach
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