

States play a pivotal role in the energy transition. As federal climate policy retreats, the path to decarbonizing America by mid-century increasingly runs through state capitals.
Due to the lack of data-driven think tanks working at the state level, however, the policymakers and advocates architecting this transition are largely flying blind.
An independent, non-profit, non-partisan think tank, Switchbox exists to fill this vacuum. With expertise in data science, economics, and energy modeling, our team brings evidence-based insight to state climate policy.


Juan-Pablo Velez
Executive Director,
former staff AI engineer
at Spotify

Lizzy Case
Director of Projects
and Operations

Max Shron
Director of Data Science,
former Head of Data at
Warby Parker

Jack Madans
Director of Development & Communications
Founding team
at Code for America

Bryan Murray
Director of Energy Modeling,
PhD candidate,
University of Oviedo

Graham Turk
Electrification Policy Advisor,
former MIT Energy Initiative

Alex Smith
Senior Data Scientist
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Alex Hyunmin Lee
Junior Data Scientist
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Griffin Sharps
Junior Data Scientist

Sophie Campbell
Communications Associate

Sherry Zuo
Research Fellow
Alison Gilles

Former VP of Engineering at Spotify, Backend and Data Platform
John Raskin

President,
Spring Street Climate Fund
Matt Gee

Founder, BrightHive
Raya Salter

NY Climate Action Council
Founder, Energy Justice Law & Policy Center
Alison Spencer

CS & Public Policy
MSc Student
UChicago CAPP
Fuyuki Tani

CS & Public Policy
MSc Student
UChicago CAPP
Kiran Jivnani

CS & Public Policy
MSc Student
UChicago CAPP
Minh Nghiem

CS & Public Policy
MSc Student
UChicago CAPP

Andrew Han
Financial modeling,
Financial Planning Manager
at Angaza

Mark Crosskey
Building energy simulation,
Deputy Director of
Building Decarbonization
at Sustainable Westchester

Snigdha Sinha
Data science,
Product Analyst
at Audible

Varun Rajan
Data science,
Staff Data Scientist
at Slack






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