Pearl-Martinez was a Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy during 2020-2021. Previously she served as Research Fellow and Head of the Renewable Equity Project at the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP) at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Visiting Lecturer on climate change governance at Tufts University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Geography at Durham University in England, focusing on urban energy transition and auction design in Chile. In 2016, she received the C3E Advocacy Award (Clean Energy Education & Empowerment Initiative) from the U.S. Department of Energy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stanford University.
She works with faculty affiliated with IGS to develop and secure funding for interdisciplinary research projects, advance research translation efforts, and co-leads IGS research initiatives including a project on energy justice in offshore wind development sponsored by Department of Energy (DOE).
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Research Projects
Energy Justice Indicators: Measuring Community Effects of Offshore Wind Energy Development Source: DOE Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO)
Summary: This project will: 1) work with East Coast communities impacted by offshore wind energy development to collaboratively create measurable indicators for energy justice; 2) qualitatively and quantitatively assess these indicators for port communities including New Bedford, Massachusetts, and New London, Connecticut, over three years; and 3) share results with government, community engagement practitioners, industry professionals, and frontline communities.
