Kristina Costa is deputy assistant to the president and deputy for clean energy innovation and implementation at the White House, where she works chiefly on implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy and climate provisions. She joined the White House in September 2022 from the U.S. State Department, where she was senior advisor to Wendy Sherman, then deputy secretary of state. Costa previously served in the Obama White House as advisor to the counselor to the president, working primarily on Climate Action Plan implementation; as a policy advisor on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign; and domestic policy writer for the 2020 Democratic Party platform. She was also a principal at Fenway Strategies and a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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