Jessie Stolark

Jessie Stolark joined the Great Plains Institute (GPI) in 2019 as a public policy and member relations manager. Jessie supports the Carbon Capture Coalition which is convened by GPI and brings together 70-plus members from industry, labor, and NGOs to advance carbon capture policies and commercial deployment.

Based in Washington, DC, Jessie works on the Coalition’s growing and successful national policy and legislative work. She is responsible for policy research, member outreach, policymaker and constituency engagement, and related communications.

Jessie comes to GPI from Third Way where she was a policy advisor managing the Climate and Energy Program’s carbon capture and industrial decarbonization portfolio. In that role, she provided advice and counsel on carbon capture policy and served as that organization’s principal liaison to the Carbon Capture Coalition. Previously, Jessie served as a policy associate at the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.

She holds a master’s degree in Applied Geosciences from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology and Environmental Science from Bryn Mawr College. She currently serves on the board of the Women’s Council for Energy and Environment.