Shannon Heyck-Williams serves as the National Wildlife Federation's lead climate and energy policy adviser. In this role she directs and represents the organization's priorities as they relate to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting renewable energy, carbon removal, and other decarbonization strategies.
Heyck-Williams joined NWF in 2015, having performed government relations for The Pew Charitable Trusts on clean energy, agricultural use of antibiotics, and other environmental and public health issues. Heyck-Williams also served as a deputy global warming campaign director for the National Environmental Trust, a research fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and a professional staff member covering climate change and air quality issues for former Chairman Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.) on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, among other roles. Heyck-Williams received a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Yale School of the Environment, and a BA in international studies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
