Austin Brown
Executive Director
Austin builds strong connections between the research and policy communities at the local, state, and national levels with a focus on clean energy and sustainable transportation.
- 650-906-5586
- dokbrown@ucdavis.edu
- Bio
Colin Murphy
Deputy Director
Colin helps guide research and outreach on issues relating to transportation, energy, air quality, and carbon markets.
- 530-754-1812
- cwmurphy@ucdavis.edu
- Bio
Mollie Cohen D'Agostino
Policy Director
Mollie directs the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis. Her work spans several sectors and includes environmental policy, community development, and transportation planning.
- 530-752-0670
- mdagostino@ucdavis.edu
- Bio
Kelly Fleming
Energy and Transportation Policy Analyst
Kelly is a policy analyst with the Policy Institute, where she provides analysis of world-leading research for equitable, economic, sustainable energy, and transportation policy solutions.
- 720-244-1143
- kelfleming@ucdavis.edu
- Bio
Sopitsuda (Sophie) Tongsopit
Energy Policy Analyst
Sophie is an energy policy analyst with the Policy Institute, were she provides analytical support on renewable energy, distributed energy resources, grid integration, utilities, and regulatory policy.
Hannah Safford
Researcher
Hannah works at the nexus of engineering and public policy, focusing on water, ecosystems, and climate. She also supports the Policy Institute in communications and outreach.
Sam Fuller
Graduate Student Researcher
Sam’s research for the Policy Institute focuses on political behavior. He is interested in how incentives, ideology, and other factors affect behaviors that often influence policy outcomes.
Gordon Anderson
Legal Fellow
Gordon’s primary research topics are the legal nexus between tort liability, the insurance industry, and the emergence of autonomous vehicles.
Rebecca Ruff
Legal Fellow
Rebecca works on energy and regulatory law. She is interested in how to integrate emerging areas of energy—such as renewable energy, community choice aggregation, and distributed generation—onto the grid in a way that will be reliable and fair, both on the grid and in the market.
Amber Mace
Policy Fellow
Amber is Interim Executive Director of the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) and a Policy Fellow with the Policy Institute.
- 510-326-0685
- ajmace@ucdavis.edu
- Bio
Julie Witcover
Assistant Project Scientist
Julie’s research for the Policy Institute and the Institute of Transportation Studies focuses on transportation and climate policies.
Cassidy Craford
Student Assistant
Cassidy is fascinated by water systems, urban agriculture, green building, and trans-boundary environmental challenges—especially in an international context.
Corina Tamayo
Student Assistant
Corina assists implementation of the 3 Revolutions Future Mobility Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies. Her interests center on transportation planning.