Keep an eye on the changing landscape. Suzy Hobbs Baker, co-founder of the Good Energy Collective

Suzy Hobbs Baker is co-founder of the Good Energy Collective. Suzy has experience in communications, with reference to advanced nuclear policy and governance and is committed to community-centred clean energy adoption.

Suzy grew up in Tokyo then Atlanta Georgia before spending 10 years in western North Carolina. Suzy is now based in Washington DC with her husband Ted and two boys.

She studied fine art at the Appalachian State University, where she became interested in Mel Chin, a conceptual visual artist motivated largely by political, cultural, and social circumstances. And, luckily for Suzy she was offered a year-long apprenticeship with Mel after university where she worked on a community-based project leveraging arts-integrated educational resources to teach kids in lead contaminated environments on how to stay safe from exposure.

Using skills learnt from Mel, Suzy set up PopAtomic Studios and the Nuclear Literacy Project, a non-profit organisation. She had always had an interest in nuclear through her father working in the industry. She was really interested in the environment and how ‘we’ care for the world and how nuclear can play a role in this.

Suzy then joined Idaho National Laboratory focusing on science public information working  on special projects.

From here, Suzy then spent time in the United States Department of Energy in the Office for Nuclear Energy before spending three years with Third Way in the Clean Energy Programme as an advisor and visiting fellow.

Suzy now works at the University of Michigan focusing on geospatial mapping and socio technical approaches to energy deployment.

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