Kate Gordon

VP for Energy Policy

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Kate Gordon is the Vice President for Energy Policy at American Progress. Most recently, Kate was the co-director of the national Apollo Alliance, where she still serves as senior policy advisor. Kate was one of Apollo’s first staffers, joining in 2004 as the director of the Apollo Strategy Center, the policy arm of Apollo formerly housed at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, or COWS.

Kate is nationally recognized for her work on the intersection of clean energy and economic development policy. She also has a long history of working on economic justice and labor issues. At COWS, along with her energy work, Kate focused on corporate tax policy, progressive federalism, and rural economic development. Prior to that, she served as an employment and consumer rights litigator at Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in Oakland, CA. She is a primary or co-author on most of Apollo’s major reports, including “The New Apollo Program,” “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” “Greener Pathways,” and the “New Energy” series. She is also the author of several published articles on contract fairness, federal preemption, mandatory arbitration litigation, and regional economic development.

Kate earned a J.D. and master's degree in city planning from the University of California-Berkeley and and undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University. She is a member of the the State Bar of California.