Home  About  In the News  Publications  Blog  Join  Donate  Towards A New New Deal Conference in Washington DC, April 9th, 2008. Photos by Nick Bradley. Announcements National Expo: July 11th Hyde Park Summit: August 14-17 Essay Winners Announced in The Nation On Campus Iowa Chapter Holds Forum Zach Hindin in the GW Hatchet Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "Prepare your representatives... In a democracy not only government is responsible but people are responsible for what happens." — Eleanor Roosevelt    Olivia A Katz School: Middlebury College Member of: Expo Cocktail Reception Core Chapters and Staff Development Staff Reducing our dependence on foreign, harmful, and unsustainable energy Roosevelt Policy Expo 2006 Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education Middlebury College Building an America that Works for Working Families Contact info: Contact Email:  olivia(AT)rooseveltinstitution.org Policy interests: Energy, Environment, Human rights, International development, Sustainability Energy Challenge Coordinator:  if you are interested in or are working  events/policy/ideas related to the 2006-2007 Energy Challenge,  please join the steering committee at http://rooseveltinstitution.org/challenges/energy.  Development Team: Corporate Sponsorship   Olivia Katz was born and raised in New York City where she attended The Spence School. She is currently a senior at Middlebury College in Vermont where she is majoring in Political Science and minoring in French and English. Olivia's first involvement with the Roosevelt Institution was in 2006 as a member of the International Affairs Center at Middlebury, which she now heads. Since then she has worked for the Roosevelt Institution in various capacities: as a member of the communications and development teams and most recently as the National Policy Coordinator for the Energy Challenge.  As Energy Challenge Coordinator, Olivia is working with the national energy steering committee and Roosevelt chapters nationwide to develop innovative policy ideas about how to reduce American dependence on foreign, harmful and unsustainable energy.  She is helping to coordinate challenge league policy competitions at various Roosevelt chapters throughout the spring. The culmination of these efforts will be the publication of Roosevelt's 25 Energy Ideas, which will present the 25 best ideas from the millennial generation about how to address this challenge.  In addition to working for the Roosevelt Institution, Olivia serves as the Director of Environmental Affairs for Middlebury's student government, and is a member of the Environmental Council and Middlebury's oldest all female a cappella group- The Middlebury Mischords. She is currently working part-time for Boston Commons, a socially responsible investment firm.   The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359