Staff
Frank Rambo
Executive Director and Board Chair
Frank Rambo has 20 years of experience working on climate change issues, with a focus on the domestic power sector. He spent six years as an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Baker Botts LLP, where he specialized in Clean Air Act requirements for electric generators, followed by 14 at the Southern Environmental Law Center, which houses the country’s third largest legal staff among environmental nonprofits. There, he led SELC’s Clean Energy and Air program, its largest program area, and focused on environmental and economic issues associated with the ways we make, move, and use electric power. In 2022, Rambo launched the Horizon Climate Initiative. He received his J.D. from New York University and holds a B.S. from Sewanee: The University of the South.
Meghan Hassett
Program Director
With a background in political campaigns, issue advocacy, and state energy policy, Meghan Hassett most recently managed Midwest campaigns on behalf of NRDC and NRDC Action Fund to protect public health and advance clean energy and grid solutions in the Midwest. Hassett previously worked with the Union of Concerned Scientists, where she helped pass 100 percent clean energy legislation in Illinois and Minnesota. She also managed a successful Illinois State Senate campaign in 2018 for a first-time female candidate against an incumbent Senator. She holds a Bachelors in Economics and Sociology from Dartmouth College.
Jennifer Smith
Operations Manager
Jennifer Smith has more than 15 years of experience in project management, communications, and nonprofit fundraising at organizations including The Mayhew Animal Home in the U.K., The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which manages the Monticello UNESCO World Heritage site, and the Investment Company Institute.