Kirsten Stasio

Chief Executive Officer, Nevada Clean Energy Fund

2025 Policy & Advocacy Award Winner

Kirsten Stasio is an experienced leader dedicated to advancing clean energy solutions that benefit communities. She joined the Nevada Clean Energy Fund in early 2022 as its founding Chief Executive Officer. Under her leadership, the nonprofit green bank is implementing over $25 million through programs that deliver clean energy benefits to households, multifamily affordable housing, Tribes, nonprofits, and others in Nevada. The Nevada Clean Energy Fund also served as a founding member of the U.S. Green Bank 50, a nonprofit network of green banks across the country.

Stasio has nearly two decades of experience across the investment, policy, education, and start-up sectors. Before joining the Nevada Clean Energy Fund, she worked at MAP Energy, an energy investment firm, where she scaled investments in renewable energy across the United States. Her early career began in Washington, DC, at the World Resources Institute (WRI), a nonprofit organization, where she worked with policymakers and other stakeholders around the world to implement ambitious policy solutions toward equitable, low-carbon, and resilient economies.

In her free time, Stasio serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where she helps teach a course on energy and sustainability to over 200 students each year. She began teaching in early 2015 after graduating from Stanford with an MBA and an MS degree in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources. She also earned a dual BA in International Relations and French from the University of California, Davis.