Leadership Team
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Alexia Oltramare
Managing Director
Alexia is second year Engineering Physics student. Before Tufts, she worked at Gallifrey Foundation and helped draft the Swiss tire abrasion funding proposals to accelerate the implementation of global standards regulating tire-wear pollution. In addition to the energy sector as a whole, she is passionate about leveraging technological advancements to mitigate aviation’s environmental impacts. Her theoretical foundation in physics, hands-on expertise as a pilot, and robust background working in the energy sector, have equipped her with a holistic perspective to address these complex challenges.
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Tim Mines
Business Development Director
Tim is a second year MALD student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, with concentrations in International Development and Environmental Policy and International Business. Prior to coming to Tufts, Tim was an infantry and military intelligence officer in the United States Army, and completed numerous assignments at Fort Moore, GA and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA with the 7th Infantry Division. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2017 with a B.S. in International Relations and a curriculum in environmental engineering. This summer, Tim completed a corporate sustainability internship with Fameccanica Group, an international robotics and automation company specializing in innovative and sustainable solutions for the consumer goods industry.
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Jenna Clark
Operations Director
Jenna is a first year master's of International Law and Diplomacy student at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, with a focus on International Environmental Policy. She holds a B.A. in International Relations and Environmental Studies from Tufts University. Jenna is a Research Assistant at the Climate Policy Lab, where she studies U.S. city and state climate adaptation and resilience. As part of the Today's Risk of Extreme Events team, she conducted a novel adaptation inventory and analysis of 6 locations in the United States. Additionally, Jenna has worked as a Program Coordinator at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy, and has interned with the Center for Health Environment and Justice and Environmental Voter Project.
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Courtney Foster
Communications Director
Courtney holds a B.A. in Global Environmental Politics and French and Francophone Studies from Bates College and after college interned on Capitol Hill, including with Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey, followed by a three-year stint at local environmental nonprofit Ceres, working with companies, institutional investors, and policymakers on sustainability. Courtney is in Fletcher's MALD program with concentrations in Environmental Policy and Global Governance and through Fletcher's Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy interned this summer at Greentown Labs, the country's largest climatetech incubator. She co-leads this year's Fletcher Energy and Environment Club and the Boston chapter of the Sunrise Movement, a national youth climate organization.
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Tiffany Wu
Content Director
Tiffany is a second year MS student in the Environmental Policy and Planning program and organized the agrivoltaics panel for the Tufts Energy Conference the previous spring. She is interested in geospatial data science, urban analytics and sustainable development. Before Tufts, she worked at a climate science research lab at UC Berkeley as well as an environmental think tank in Northern Europe. This summer, she interned as a resilience consulting intern at a design engineering firm in New York City. Tiffany attended Cornell University and received a B.S. in Animal Science with a minor in Environment & Sustainability. She is originally from Los Angeles but actually doesn’t mind the winters here. In her spare time, she likes exploring farmers markets and coffee shops and checking eBird for various waterfowl sightings.
Team Members
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Manjulika Das
Content Team Member
Master's in Global Affairs at the Fletcher School - International Development and Environmental Policy. Class of 2024.
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Anthony (Tung) Vu
Content Team Member
Master's in International Business: Quantitative Methods. Class of 2025.
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Caroline Baur
Content Team Member
BS in Mechanical engineering. Class of 2026.
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Blythe Elderd
Content & Communications Team Member
Biology and Environmental Studies. Class of 2026.
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Nabiya Imran
Content Team Member
MALD (International Development and Environmental Policy). Class of 2025.
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Sophie Liu
Content Team Member
BA in Environmental Studies and Economics. Class of 2027.
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Kristen Weller
Content & Business Development Team Member
1st year MALD at The Fletcher School, focusing in international development and environmental policy & technology. Class of 2025.
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Michelle Ball
Communication Team Member
MALD - The Fletcher School. Class of 2024.
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Tristan Palola
Operations Team Member
MALD - The Fletcher School. Class of 2025.
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Stella Sommers
Operations Team Member
Quantitative Economics & Applied Environmental Studies. Class of 2026.
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Hadley Keefe
Operations Team Member
Environmental Studies. Class of 2026.
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Edward (Fangda) Yu
Content Team Member
Master's in International Business: Quantitative Methods. Class of 2024.