Katelyn Haas-Conrad

As assistant director for partnerships, Katelyn Haas-Conrad works closely with the executive director to develop and steward the Scott Institute partnerships and initiatives. She supports the work of the University Energy Institute Collaborative (UEIC), a first-of-its-kind partnership of U.S. university-based energy institutes formed to address the critical challenges facing America’s energy systems with a vision of supporting a low carbon and just energy future.

Prior to joining the Scott Institute team, Haas-Conrad worked for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce for over six years. Her main areas of focus were energy, sustainability, and infrastructure policy. She managed the Allegheny Conference’s Sustainability and Infrastructure committees and was integral in facilitating the creation of the Regional Transportation Alliance’s Imagine Transportation 2.0 and the creation of the Allegheny Conference’s Sustainability Principles.

She received her master’s in public policy and nonprofit management from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, and has a BA in chemistry and psychology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She served in the Peace Corps as a science and math teacher in Sierra Leone.