CALPIRG Education Fund Staff

Emily Rusch is the State Director of CALPIRG Education Fund. She has co-authored numerous research reports on transportation, energy, and tax and budget policy policies. She has overseen the organization's efforts to make quality health care more affordable and accessible, to protect Californians from unsafe products, rip-offs, and other anti-consumer practices in the marketplace, and to increase voter engagement in elections. Prior to joining CALPIRG Education Fund, she worked in New Jersey as NJPIRG's Energy Advocate. She grew up in Culver City, California and graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She's based in our San Francisco office and has worked with U.S.PIRG, the federation of state PIRGs, since 2001