One Decade Out: Navigating Energy Careers since IES

Institute for Energy Studies Speaker Series Presents: One Decade Out: Navigating Energy Careers since IES

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Event Details

When:

Tue, May 19, 2026, 4pm - 5:15pm

Location:

Online: Zoom

Price:

Free

Brought to you by:

Institute for Energy Studies, The Foundation for WWU & Alumni

Description

Join Lindsay as she covers her career journey from graduation to today - it includes a couple cross country moves, betting on a company acquisition, deploying leading technology, trying her hand at management before settling into her process improvement niche. Come chat with this alum about how WWU/IES helped prep her for corporate life, what’s it’s like to work in operations, and more.

The speaker will be on Zoom and will not be in person. This presentation will not be recorded.

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Featuring:

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Lindsay Parpart

Lindsay graduated from WWU in 2015 with a BA in environmental studies / economics and a minor in Energy Studies. She spent the formative years of her career at Tesla managing utility solar and storage interconnection for residential customers, then leading Operations procedure and improvement programs for the NAM Charging team. She currently supports process improvement initiatives for CBRE @ Microsoft CO+I. While not currently in the energy industry, Lindsay still cares deeply about grid decarbonization.

Questions and Accommodations

  • Contact The Foundation for WWU & Alumni for this event if you have questions or need disability accommodations by calling (360) 650-3353 or emailing Alumni@wwu.edu.
  • Advance notice for disability accommodations and special needs is greatly appreciated. Please indicate your special needs on the registration form.
  • There will be auto-captions available for the Zoom webinar.

The views expressed by our speaker do not necessarily reflect those of Western Washington University.

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