Gabe Elsner

Founder and Senior Fellow

Gabe Elsner is the founder and former Executive Director of the Energy and Policy Institute. 

Prior to founding the Energy and Policy Institute, Elsner was the California Student Sustainability Coalition’s first statewide campaign director, helping to defeat Prop 23, an attempt to overturn California’s climate law. He also coordinated the advocacy activities of 12 organizations during the climate debate in the U.S. Congress and was on the leadership team for the largest trainings on climate change organizing at the time: Power Shift 2007 and Power Shift 2009.