Jennifer Hill

About Jennifer Hill

Making Sure that Good Ideas Reach Key Audiences and that Complex Projects Happen 25 years of experience in project management, coalition building, grant writing, and managing staff, Board of Directors and community partner relations. Strengths include strategic planning, policy analysis, public speaking, social media, marketing, nonprofit management, grants management and meeting facilitation. Areas of interest: clean energy transition, watershed management, energy efficiency, sustainable transportation, water policy, arts and culture, and greening/gardening. Specialties: Community engagement, non-profit management, philanthropy, grant writing, experiential education, communications, urban gardening, non-motorized transportation, organizational development, program evaluation, policy analysis, coalition building and action.

Experience

1. Senior Advisor

   5 Lakes Energy

   May 2021 — Present · MI, US

   Jenn Hill is a Consultant with 5 Lakes Energy, working on policy development, analysis, and advocacy with a focus on preparing rural regions for energy transition and climate change. Current projects include education campaigns about the benefits of renewable energy options and fostering deployment of electric vehicles and building electrification.

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Masters, Environmental Planning & Policy

  1993 — 1995

• Barnard College

  BA, cum laude, Cultural Anthropology, Political Science

  1984 — 1988

• Grand Valley State University

  Certificate in Advanced Proposal Analysis, The Grantmaking School, Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy

  2007 — 2007