Rachel is a PhD student in UCLA’s Institute of Environment and Sustainability. She is working with CCSC and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) to produce a tool for evaluating the impacts of electrification on residential electricity bills. She hopes this work will help LADWP design affordable electricity rates for the city’s renewable energy transition.
Before joining IoES, Rachel earned her Bachelors of Science in Environmental Engineering from Brown University, where she focused on solar and sustainable behavior. Following graduation, Rachel worked at Sunwealth, an equity-focused solar financing firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At UCLA, Rachel’s work aims to address energy pricing from the perspectives of engineering, economics, and policy to support more equitable decarbonization.