Kat Plimpton is a graduate student in the Masters of Public Administration Program at the Evans School, University of Washington, where she is simultaneously working toward a Certificate in Environmental Resource Management. She earned her bachelors at Northwestern University, where she majored in Political Science and minored in History. A native Seattleite, Kat has traveled extensively and worked abroad in South Korea as an English teacher. Her areas of interest include corporate sustainability, clean energy, and regional climate policy in the Pacific Northwest.