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Suzanne Tegen is in her fourth year at the University of Colorado at Boulder where she pursuing a PhD in Environmental Studies, focusing on energy policy. Her dissertation covers energy policy decision-making and will provide a new framework for energy policymakers including electricity resources (coal, natural gas, wind) and energy efficiency.
She is also the co-chair of the university’s Environmental Center, and works with undergraduates, other graduate students, staff and the administration, to keep CU Boulder a leader in sustainable campus practices.
Suzanne has a BA in German Literature from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a minor in Environmental Studies. After graduating, Suzanne worked for UW Environmental Management where she helped secure funding to start a new campus reuse program called SWAP.
In 1995, Suzanne left the continent for Antarctica, where she worked as part of the support staff for the National Science Foundation. She worked at McMurdo and the South Pole stations for three austral summers. She started a reuse program in McMurdo, saving the company shipping, materials, and disposal costs. Suzanne then worked for a small non-profit in San Francisco where she was the Communications Director for the Green-e program.
She was inspired to continue work on renewable energy issues and started work for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (see her internship report). Suzanne continues to work for NREL, now at the National Wind Technology Center, as a researcher, studying the economic impacts of wind energy compared with other resources.
She has given up planning where she will be in the future, after attending courses at CU and learning that predictions are always wrong. However, she hopes that she can continue to influence decision-makers to create policies that consider environmental implications.