Lisa Marshall
Lisa is a Senior Fellow at Good Energy Collective, where she supports GEC’s social license research, helping to inform more effective stakeholder engagement practices by advancing the foundational science of community engagement in energy infrastructure. Lisa’s educational background includes a master’s in Geography with an emphasis in nuclear energy geography, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a graduate certificate in geospatial information science from North Carolina University, where she is nearing completion of a Doctorate in Higher Education with a focus on engineering education. Lisa brings more than two decades of expertise in engineering education and a strong focus on the importance of fuller participation gender equity in the field of engineering.
Lisa has served as the inaugural Director of Outreach, Retention and Engagement at the Department of Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) since 2001, has chaired the Association of Women Faculty at North Carolina State University and the Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee for the American Association of Geographers, and currently serves on the Board of Advisers at the University of Tennessee and Virginia Commonwealth University as well as the ORNL Fission and Fusion Energy and Science Directorate.
Additionally, Lisa is a member of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) Council of Advisors and the NEA High-Level Group on Improving the Gender Balance in the Nuclear Sector. She chairs the NEA Global Forum Working Group on Building a Pipeline of STEM Professionals and sits on the Task Force on Achieving Inclusivity and the Working Group on “Rethinking the Relationship between Nuclear Energy and the Society.”
Prior to joining Good Energy Collective, Lisa served as the 70th President of the American Nuclear Society, where she has been a member and served in other leadership roles for over 20 years. Lisa’s extensive background in engineering education and devotion to broader participation within the field of engineering are key assets to GEC’s people-centered ethos.
In her free time, Lisa enjoys Pilates, science fiction, and traveling.
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Good Energy Collective is a new policy research organization. We’re building the progressive case for advanced nuclear energy as part of the broader climate change agenda and working to align the clean energy space with environmental justice and sustainability goals.