Heather House - Moderator

Manager, Carbon-Free Transportation Program, RMI

Heather is a manager with RMI’s Carbon-Free Transportation Program. She has a decade of experience working closely with cities, utilities, and the private sector to accelerate decarbonization of the sector through avoid, shift, and improve strategies. Her experience includes providing technical assistance to local governments to achieve climate commitments, working on utility EV programs, developing resources and policy blueprints for states for land-use reform, designing and running mobility pilots, working with private companies on strategies to electrify their fleet, creating commuting solutions for low-income workers, and designing and deploying urban design pilots to increase accessibility for low-income neighborhoods.

Heather also worked closely with cities and counties to provide guidance and technical variety assistance on various climate, energy, and transportation commitments. Heather managed RMI’s Resilient Texas Communities Initiative, enhancing the resilience of Texas cities and counties, inclusive of resilience hubs, power sector transformation, municipal fleet electrification, and residential weatherization. Heather also worked on Bloomberg Philanthropies’ American Cities Climate Challenge, where she built coalitions of cities and counties and provided them strategic guidance and technical assistance to advance their climate goals in critical decisions made at regulatory agencies, utilities, regional transmission operators, and state legislatures. She also managed a statewide process in North Carolina, convening key stakeholders, culminating in the creation of key regulatory reform policies for the state.
From June 2022 to March 2023, Heather seconded to the United Nations Climate Change High Level Champions team, where she worked globally to mobilize nonstate actors around ambitious targets for cities, transport, resilience, and nature.