Sara B. Parkison ([email protected]) is a Knauss Fellow currently working with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Office of Environmental Programs as an underserved community engagement advisor. Previously, she was senior policy analyst with the Electric Vehicle Research & Development Group within the University of Delaware’s Center for Research in Wind. As a Ph.D. candidate within the University of Delaware’s college of earth, ocean and environment, her doctoral research focuses on multi-scalar energy system transitions and the underlying interface of science, technology and sociopolitical dynamics. She received her bachelor’s degree in political science and public policy at St. Mary’s Public Honors College of Maryland.