Knowledge Products

2025

Conference panel ‘Planning energy presents and futures: Lessons from collaborative projects with Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation, Saskatchewan’, Renewables in Remote Communities Conference (25-28 March, 2025)

2024

Plenary panel on food, water, energy nexus through data – a new opportunity; at the 6th annual People Around the World (PAW) 2024 International Congress, University of Saskatchewan (17-19 October, 2024).

Co-chair of panel on Empowering Villages through Energy Engagement; at the 5th International Conference on Solar Technologies and Hybrid Mini-Grids, University of Balearic Islands (4-6 September, 2024)

2022

Micro and Macro Perspectives on Just Energy Transitions; Guest Lecture for course Contemporary Issues in Energy (ENVS 390), Northwestern University (9 November, 2022)

Home occupant perspectives on decarbonization: Results from a U.S. DOE Study; Energy and Environment Buildings Association Summit, Scottsdale, AZ, USA (20-22 September, 2022)

Evidence-based planning for creating social value of energy: Implementing the ecosystem approach in Sierra Leone; 26th International Sustainable Development Research Society Conference, Budapest, Hungary (15-17 July, 2022) 

People at the heart of the energy transition – experiences around the energy world; keynote at Fórum de Energia Cooperativa, Sao Paulo, Brazil (8-9 June, 2022) 

Discovering Public Interest in Energy Transitions (Tensions, Opportunities and Paradoxes); Keynote at the 2nd RTAC Virtual Conference on Public Interest Technology for International Development (21-22 April, 2022) 

2021

Investigating emergent linkages between SDG 1 and SDG 7: A global survey of energy narratives under COVID19; 27th International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Östersund, Sweden, (13-15 July, 2021)

Making Renewable Energy Socially Valuable; mentoring talk for Climate Jam 2021, co-organized by The National Academies of Sciences (22 April - 2 May, 2021) 

Women and community energy futures at the grassroots: Imaginaries of stewardship and sustainability; Energy and Society Conference, Trento, Italy (10-12 February, 2021)

2020

Understanding the energy-poverty nexus: A transdisciplinary approach for designing sustainable energy transitions; New Energy: Conversations with Early-Career Energy Researchers, organized by The Artur L. Irving Institute for energy and Society (4 November, 2020) 

User-Centered Solar Energy; webinar for the IEEE Special Interest Group on Humanitarian Technology (4 June, 2020) 

2019

Investigating social value of energy: A study on pathways and configurations in a community minigrid in India; 2nd International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science, Tempe, USA (28-31 May, 2019)

2018

Meta principles-based, evaluation framework for community sustainability programs; Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia (29 August-1 September, 2018) 

Re-imagining energy access: What is missing in global paradigms on energy access design? Annual Meeting of the Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA (15-17 May, 2018)

Sustainable Rio Claro 2020: Transformation through Community Action; symposium showcase at TEDx ASU Boundless: 2018, Tempe, AZ, (31 March, 2018) 

2017

Decentralized energy technology adoption and propagation in communities: A place-based study; 6th Annual Arizona Student Energy Conference on Renewable Energy Science, Technology, and Policy. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA (19-20 October, 2017)

2017 Rio Claro Sustentável 2020: Value Based Transformation Design for a Rural Community; 4th Grupo de Estudos Interdisciplinares em Ciência e Tecnologia Workshop, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, (8 June, 2017)