Anabel Roza

Anabel Roza ([email protected]) is the vegetation and wildfire mitigation manager at Seattle City Light, overseeing risk-based strategies to improve grid reliability and wildfire resilience. With a background in economics, environmental studies and operations, she brings a data-driven approach to vegetation management, integrating LiDAR, satellite imagery and AI-powered analytics into SCL’s decision-making framework. She is currently pursuing her MBA, with a focus on strategic leadership and clean energy. A former Navy officer, she applies her experience in risk assessment, operations and leadership to modernizing utility infrastructure and resilience planning. She is actively exploring how utilities can move beyond static maintenance cycles to prioritize circuits based on predictive analytics.