Melissa Benn

Melissa Benn is a Senior Program Associate at Prospect Silicon Valley. She earned her B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2016, specializing in sustainable architecture and ecological conservation. She joined Prospect Silicon Valley in January 2018 as a fellow through the Climate Corps AmeriCorps Program.

She transitioned to full-time employment at ProspectSV in September 2018 and has since engaged in many projects in mobility and energy. Currently, her roles include leading an Accessible Automated Vehicle Pilot Project, organizing Transit Innovation and Fleet Electrification Peer Forums, and supporting market research studies on Normalized Metering Energy Consumption and Automated People Counting technology. Melissa’s passion is to explore environmentally friendly and innovative solutions to complex problems in transportation, buildings, and energy.