Katy Winkler

2019 Sustainability Fellow - Renewable Thermal for Equitable Energy Transformation | City of Cambridge, MA
Katy Winkler, Sustainability Fellow

Katy Winkler worked with Cambridge Energy Planner Nikhil Nadkarni and Cambridge Energy Alliance Outreach Director Meghan Shaw to develop a strategy for engaging the community in a co-design of residential energy programs. Katy’s work assessed resident needs and priorities around home energy, and potential barriers to uptake of energy programs. She identified best practices for equitable municipal energy programs and recommended outreach and engagement strategies for the co-design process. She also identified potential strategies and features of program design that could make Cambridge’s home energy programs more equitable. Her work is helping to inform a redesign of Cambridge’s residential energy programs to make them more equitable and inclusive to all Cambridge Residents. Following the fellowship, Katy returned to Brandeis for her second year of graduate school, to pursue a Master of Public Policy and a Social Impact MBA at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Her interests include climate justice and energy equity, corporate sustainability, and the energy economy.