Jennifer Kefer

Jennifer Kefer has 15 years of experience providing legal and political expertise, strategic analysis, and advice to non-profits, corporations, and cities on a range of projects related to climate, energy, and other environmental issues. Her expertise in industrial efficiency, EPA regulations and compliance, alliance and partnership-building, and policy engagement guides her work leading DGA’s work for the Alliance for Industrial Efficiency—a coalition of business, labor, and non-profit groups supporting policies to advance Combined Heat and Power. Jennifer’s leadership and advocacy have helped the Alliance and other groups successfully press the Environmental Protection Agency to incorporate industrial efficiency and Combined Heat and Power into Clean Air Act rules, such as the carbon pollution New Source Performance Standards for new and existing power plants and the Industrial Boiler MACT. She has helped “put a face on energy efficiency” by organizing events for policymakers to meet with and learn from energy efficiency workers. And she has started a dialogue at Public Utility Commissions about state utility barriers to CHP.

Jennifer’s previous experience includes grassroots education and outreach, federal advocacy, legal research and analysis, and environmental litigation working on behalf of a range of organizations, including Environmental Defense Fund, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Earthjustice. She earned a B.A. in environmental studies at Brandeis University, a Masters of Environmental Studies at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a J.D. at the Yale Law School.