Lacey Shaver is Director, U.S. City Clean Energy Transition within WRI's U.S. Energy Program. She leads a portfolio of work related to local clean energy transition and transportation electrification with a focus on equitable uptake and solutions that provide broad community benefits. Over the past 15 years, she's worked with hundreds of U.S. cities and counties and local partners like school districts, regional planning organizations, universities, and community groups.

Lacey has expertise in renewable energy purchasing, 24/7 carbon free electricity, equitable local solar deployment, public and private EV charging, school bus and municipal fleet electrification, stakeholder engagement in utility planning processes, and integrating sustainability and equity into city plans, programs, and budgets.

Prior to WRI, Lacey developed standards and certification programs for benchmarking communitywide sustainability performance, including the USGBC LEED for Cities and Communities program and the STAR Community Rating System. She has also conducted analyses of local climate and hazard mitigation planning at The Nature Conservancy; developed data management strategies for community organizing, fundraising, and marketing at Greenpeace; and performed spatial analysis of land use and energy reliance for the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability.

Lacey holds a BA in International Studies from the University of Mississippi and a MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. She lives in Washington, DC with her husband and daughter and spends her free time biking around the city and cheering on the Nationals baseball team.