Jenny Mandel is a Senior Communications Associate supporting the Climate team. Before joining the organization she spent more than a decade as a journalist with E&E News, a publication covering energy and environmental issues, where she wrote on subjects including energy technology, oil and gas, climate, federal agencies, and the national laboratories. Her path before that includes reporting for the Indian Express newspaper in Mumbai, supporting the Department of Energy’s work on hydrogen fuel cells, covering United Nations environmental negotiations, and earning a computer science-related degree from Stanford University. She’s now rooted in DC, where she lives with her husband, kids and dog, and makes time for reading, quilting and back yard nerf battles.