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Sarah Woodhouse Murdock

Sarah Woodhouse Murdock
Senior Policy Advisor

Brief biography
Sarah Woodhouse Murdock serves as a Senior Policy Advisor on the Climate Change Initiative team spending her time focused on policy, advocacy, communications, education related activities, and executing projects that inform our policy work.

For the past ten years, Ms. Woodhouse Murdock served as a consultant working with environmental and energy clients to develop strategic solutions to government, regulatory, and community outreach challenges. As a consultant working at KEMA-Xenergy and prior to that at Environmental Futures, Inc., Ms. Woodhouse Murdock worked extensively with business associations, public entities, non-governmental organizations and advocacy groups to advance her client’s concerns. Much of her work focused on public education and research related to renewable energy and green power projects.

Prior to being a consultant, she served for five years on the staff of United States Senator John F. Kerry of Massachusetts concentrating on environmental and energy policy. While working with Senator Kerry, Ms. Woodhouse Murdock worked on a range of environmental policy and legislative issues involving air, energy, water, land use planning and fisheries.

Ms. Woodhouse Murdock serves as a Member of the Corporation for Sea Education Association and a board member for the Massachusetts Bays Estuary Association. She earned her BA degree in Environmental Science with a concentration in Ecology from Colby College and MA degree in Urban and Environmental Policy with a concentration in Land Use and Resource Management from Tufts University.