Ex Officio
Heidi VanGenderen is currently the University of Colorado Boulder’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. She returned home to Colorado in 2017 from Washington, DC where she served as the Director of Public Engagement at the U.S. Department of Energy as an appointee of President Barack Obama. Prior, Heidi was Director of National Outreach for the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Senior Energy Advisor for the Worldwatch Institute. Heidi served as Colorado’s first gubernatorial climate advisor for Governor Bill Ritter. She staffed the Wirth Chair in Sustainability at CU Denver and served as Deputy Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. She is an alumnae of Carleton College.