2020 ANS Virtual Winter Meeting Opening Plenary Speaker

Jessica Lovering

Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director,
Good Energy Collective

Jessica Lovering is the co-founder of Good Energy Collective, a new organization working on progressive nuclear policy. She is completing her PhD in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her dissertation focuses on how commercial nuclear trade affects international security standards and how very small nuclear reactors could be deployed at the community level. She is a Fellow with the Energy for Growth Hub, looking at how advanced nuclear can be deployed in sub-Saharan Africa. She was formerly the Director of the Energy Program at the Breakthrough Institute, a pioneering research institute changing how people think about energy and the environment. Her work at Breakthrough sought policies to spur innovation in nuclear power technologies to drive down costs and accelerate deployment as part of a solution to climate change and economic development. She has a bachelor’s degree in Astrophysics from University of California Berkeley and a Master’s degree in Energy Policy from the University of Colorado.