Kari Manlove

Research Assistant

Kari Manlove is a Research Assistant to the Managing Director for Energy and Environmental Policy, Kit Batten. Her work focuses on several facets of climate and energy policy, including federal legislation, low-carbon technologies, and alleviating energy poverty. Manlove also assists Senior Fellow Joseph Romm with the blog ClimateProgress.org, a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and in that capacity she contributes to It's Getting Hot in Here, a blog from the youth climate action movement. Manlove also provides administrative and research assistance to Senior Fellow Henry Fernandez, an expert on local government.

Originally from the Kansas City metropolitan area, Manlove graduated from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. There she earned her bachelor’s degree in politics and government and was the recipient of a National Security Education Program scholarship for study in Santiago, Chile. Prior to joining the Center in 2007, Manlove interned at Global Partnerships, a microfinance nonprofit in Seattle, WA.