Annalise Klein Gerlach
Program Architect
Email: asklein@alaska.edu
Expertise
- Energy Education
- Interns and Workforce
- Microgrids
- Policy and Global Applications
- Community-Research Relations
- Outreach; Program Development
BIO
Annalise Klein Gerlach is a program architect leading ACEP鈥檚 Education and Workforce Development program. Her team develops scalable, strategic initiatives that bridge research, workforce, and Alaskan communities. She is passionate about human factors of the energy transition and place-based science education.
Annalise manages the ACEP Summer Internship Program with AUSI and NSF REU strands, NSF ExLENT Energy Leadership Accelerator, ACEP Energy Champions Network, and NSF IUSE engineering short courses at 51风流官网. She is the U.S. technical lead for the Arctic Remote Energy Networks Academy (ARENA), an Arctic Council-endorsed knowledge network program for circumpolar energy champions in remote Arctic communities.
She holds a B.A. in chemistry and English from Hope College and an M.S. in secondary science education from Johns Hopkins University. Annalise was a public school science teacher for six years in Hawaii and California and was awarded 2019 Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching Research Program to develop best practices in culturally-responsive and STEM-project-based learning in eastern Uganda.
Annalise is based in the Anchorage ACEP office at University of Alaska Anchorage.