Brenna Cohen is a Community Development Officer in Resilient Energy at Island Institute. She works with island and coastal communities to plan and build their energy futures. Power outages, high fuel costs, energy technologies? Brenna partners with municipal leaders, utilities and national engineers and researchers to help rural communities develop strategies and solutions for affordable, reliable and clean energy.

Prior to Island Institute, she managed environmental grantmaking, advocacy and activism for Patagonia in NY, NJ and CT. Brenna holds a masters degree in public health and environmental studies and loves skiing, live music and ocean dips. She and her husband live in South Portland, ME.