Meg Power

Dr. Meg Power is President and Executive Director of Economic Opportunity Studies (EOS) of Washington, DC, a non-profit corporation that provides analysis, training, and support for organizations that offer low-income families and communities resources to become more self-sufficient. She has specialized in analyzing and designing programs that provide affordable and fair energy services and environmental benefits for all individual consumers, including sustainable community development, and energy efficiency.

She has also developed expertise in the management and information systems of the community-based organizations that provide such resources, with particular expertise in the governance and management of Community Action Agencies.

She is the principal researcher on, and manages, the EOS Weatherization Partnership Project funded by the US Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory and the EOS Community Services Block Grant Information System Reporting project funded by the National Association for State Community Services Programs. Recent work by Dr. Power is available on-line through opportunitystudies.org.

Meg Power regularly presents the results of EOS research at national, regional, and state meetings of Community Action Agencies and other stakeholders in low-income public and private programs. Topics include:

• How to identify and pursue opportunities to leverage private and local resources for low-income programs;
• Energy market issues affecting the poor and ways to present their impact on families;
• Affordable energy program design and management issues;
• Energy efficiency program issues;
• Client data collection and use, and
• Program performance measurement.

Since 1981, she has also maintained a private practice as a consultant to the National Community Action Foundation of Washington, D.C. In that capacity, she provides policy analysis and strategic support to the federal advocacy effort of the Community Action network.

From 1975 - 1981, Dr. Power served on the US Senate staff; from 1975 - 1978, she was Legislative Assistant to Senator Edward W. Brooke (R, MA) and from 1979 - 1981, she was Minority Staff Director of the Energy and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Subcommittee of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee.

She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Radcliffe College in Harvard University.