Kelly Banegas is an Executive Assistant at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA. Kelly has over 5 years of experience in administrative support in various academic institutions. Prior to CGEP, Kelly was an Administrative Assistant for the Florida Department of Education, the University of Florida’s College of Pharmacy, and more recently, as a field researcher with the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Florida. In her free time, she enjoys watercolor painting, reading horror fiction, and traveling.