Rennie Meyers

Rennie Meyers is a policy analyst and anthropologist focused on socially and ecologically sustainable development of offshore wind and other renewables. As Senior Public Affairs Advisor for Oceans and Biodiversity for Ørsted, she has coordinated offshore wind policy and stakeholder engagement across Congress, eNGOs, and maritime stakeholders. She worked in Congress for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, at the National Science Foundation, in architecture firms, in science communication non-profits, and in bakeries. Trained as an environmental historian and anthropologist, she studies coastal infrastructure resilience, tourism and maritime economies. Her scholarship on community-owned artificial reef infrastructure is published in Shima, the Island Studies Journal, and Resilience: International Policies, Practices, and Discourse. She is a Thomas J Watson Fellow and holds degrees from Reed College (B.A., Environmental Studies & History, 2015) and the University of Rhode Island (M.A., Marine Affairs, 2018).