Katherine Stainken is a Technical Leader on the Electric Transportation team at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), working on the regulatory and policy issues on the grid side under the EVs2Scale 2030 Initiative. Prior to this role she was the VP Policy at the Electrification Coalition, where she led and managed the policy team at the federal and state levels, including legislative and regulatory policies. She is a Fulbright Scholar with a BS in Chemistry and German from Boston College, and has her Masters in Global Environmental Policy from American University.