Charlie Hoffs

Schneider Sustainable Energy Fellow

Charlie Hoffs served as a 2022 UCS Summer Schneider Fellow in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She worked with the UCS Climate and Energy program to research and write about the lifecycle of renewable energy technologies including solar panels, wind turbines, and energy storage batteries. Charlie earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 2022, and is currently pursuing an MS degree in Community Health and Prevention Research at Stanford. Alongside clean energy and environmental justice, Charlie is passionate about food justice, agricultural sustainability, and the social safety net. In April 2020, she co-founded and continues to co-lead unBox, a youth-led organization working to unite and empower young people to fight US food insecurity.