Susan Rakov is the founding director of Frontier Group, the research and policy center affiliated with The Public Interest Network. Since 1996, Frontier Group has explored the problems and opportunities of today's unparalleled material abundance - for our environment, our society and our lives, connecting academic research and original analysis to real-life political organizing and advocacy. Susan also chairs Environment America’s Clean Energy Team. A veteran trainer and lecturer, she delivers a combination of theory-based expertise, campaign experience, storytelling, and heart. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University, and earned the rest of her credentials as a thinker/strategist/organizer/ hellraiser from 37 years on the job.