Laura Schifter
Senior Fellow, This Is Planet Ed, The Aspen Institute
Laura Schifter is a senior fellow with the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program, leading the This Is Planet Ed initiative, which seeks to unlock the power of the education sector as a force for climate action, solutions, and environmental justice. She is also a lecturer on education with Harvard Graduate School of Education and a fellow with the Century Foundation. Previously, Schifter was a policy and research consultant with clients including the Massachusetts Department of Education and US Justice Department. She was a senior education and disability advisor for former US representative George Miller and an education fellow for former US senator Chris Dodd. Earlier, she taught elementary school in San Francisco.
Previously
In 2021, over a million K-12 students missed school because of extreme weather events—and yet their schools are largely silent on the realities of climate change. This can cha...
With nearly 100,000 public schools across the country, America’s K-12 schools are among the largest consumers of energy in the public sector — and could be a massive driver of...