ABOUT KURT
Kurt and his wife moved to San Anselmo in 2013. Their son is a third grader at Wade Thomas elementary school. In 2016, Kurt joined the San Anselmo Climate Action Commission, which he subsequently chaired, drafting the Town’s EV plan and advocating for the solar microgrid that will be built at Town Hall in 2025.
Kurt grew up in the Bay Area, attended Stanford (BA/MA) and later Johns Hopkins (MS). Kurt is also a graduate of the Environmental Forum of Marin (Master Class 44). After college, Kurt worked as an English teacher in Japan and traveled extensively before moving to Washington, DC, where he worked as a legislative assistant for a Democratic Member of Congress focused on energy and environmental issues.
In 1995 Kurt joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency where he founded the EPA’s renewable energy program.
Kurt moved to Sausalito in 2006 to work on solar policy at the California Public Utilities Commission in San Francisco. He joined the Obama Campaign as a field organizer in 2008 and later founded a renewable energy project development company, building solar and small hydropower projects.
Since 2019, Kurt has worked as Community Energy Resilience Director at The Climate Center, advocating for statewide legislation to enhance community energy resilience.
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He is bringing his decades long experience in renewable energy and climate action to work for a more sustainable San Anselmo.
