Holly was a Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment researching pathways to broad public support for utility-scale renewable energy projects across the US. Her work explores the formation of local and regional stakeholder coalitions and the narratives they form around a clean energy transition in relation to economic revitalization, labor organization, and notions of procedural and distributional justice.

Drawing on her interdisciplinary social science background, Holly is interested in how different actors define and envision a ‘just transition’, working to identify policy frameworks that enable rapid, equitable decarbonization.

Holly earned her Ph.D. from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, where her dissertation research explored social-behavioral drivers of household resource.

Now, Holly works as an Assistant Professor in Climate Justice and Environmental Planning at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning where she leads the PLACE lab. She is an affiliate faculty member at the Centre for Climate Justice and the Clean Energy Research Centre and member of the Solar Energy for Net Zero Research Excellence Cluster.