Crystal Johnson
Crystal is a Senior Environmental Planner and Energy Strategist with more than twenty-five years of accomplishments in strategic leadership, planning, communication, management, policy, and assessment.
As the MA EEA Assistant Secretary of Environmental Justice, key projects include:
* Urban forestry and tree nursery planning to increase open space and tree canopy coverage
* Equitable climate/clean energy workforce development pipeline planning
* Youth climate campaign
* Justice40 Initiative
* More
Experience Highlights:
* ACEEE Summer Study 2022. Presented paper on “Shaping the Future of Equity in Energy Efficiency”.
* Provided policy and technical advising to Energy Efficiency Advisory Councils (EEAC) in Massachusetts, Delaware, and Connecticut, particularly regarding energy equity and workforce development. Advised the MA EEAC on energy equity and workforce development for the 2022 – 2024 Three-Year Energy Efficiency Plan.
* Served as an Energy Strategy consultant to Eversource Energy. Developed the Human Element Strategic Plan. Focused on workforce pipeline models. Developed a new methodology for identifying MI neighborhoods in urban areas other than utilizing SMI.
* Contracted as the Sustainable Economy Strategist for the U.S. EPA Office of the Administrator to develop an Environmental Legacy and Sustainable Economy Imperative Strategic Plan for the Former U.S. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.
* Served as the Senior Environmental Planner and Strategist to United Indigenous
Peoples of The World (UIPTW), United Nations. Co-developed and co- chaired panel for an
UNDRIP Resolution Outcome.
* Developed the Ocean 2030 Climate Restoration Strategic Action Plan. Included in the United Nations 2018 Nature-based Solutions Climate Meetings.
* Served as a Sustainability Strategist to MassDOT. Managed the planning/procurement of a first‐in‐the‐nation public agency 10‐megawatt solar PV energy program on multiple sites along the Mass Pike.
* Developed the well-received annual MA Sustainable Economy Conference (SEC) to build bridges across MA’s multi-sectors to cultivate a sustainable economy. Also developed the MA Annual Urban Farming Conferences (now managed by UFI) and the MA Annual Youth Environmental Forum.
* Served as the Senior Environmental Planner at NYCDEP for high profile projects, including 7 of the 14 NYCDEP wastewater treatment plants.
Education:
B.S., Conservation of Resources Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Awards & Recognitions:
* Boston Business Journal Emerging Leader
* YWCA Academy of Women Achievers
