Jackie Toth
Deputy Director
Good Energy Collective
A daughter of booksellers, Jackie grew up in Pennsylvania surrounded by literature and nature. Encouraged by her parents, she never hesitated to "flip the rock" and unearth whatever crawled in the grass and under stones in the backyard.
Jackie's early interests in reading, writing, and exploring coalesced into an energy and environment reporting position at CQ Roll Call from 2016, where she covered Congress and federal agencies before moving to Morning Consult and developing beat coverage of existing and advanced nuclear energy. Over three and a half years of reporting, she learned about the past, present, and possible futures of nuclear energy—its successes, its failures, and its opportunities. In 2020, Jackie traded her reporter's hat for an advocate's fedora and joined Third Way's Climate and Energy Program as an advisor for policy and content, managing the program's public opinion research and writing thinkpieces on the need for clean energy solutions like nuclear energy.
Jackie holds a bachelor’s degree in International Studies and a minor in Linguistics from American University in Washington, D.C. She's a fan of classic film noir; social music, from Coleman Hawkins to Pat Metheny; and British comedy shows such as Taskmaster and Would I Lie to You?
Recent Publications
First of Its Kind: Making DOE’s New Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations a Success
The U.S. Department of Energy’s new Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations is a tremendous step forward for innovation and must become a permanent fixture in the federal structure. DOE needs time right now to build up the new office systematically, and over the next few years its funding must grow rapidly, so that it can drive a steady stream of innovations ready to be scaled up nationally and globally.
