Merrilee Harrigan

Merrilee Harrigan, Vice President for Education, has directed the Alliance's educational programs for 20 years. Her accomplishments include developing the Alliance’s successful PowerSave Schools and PowerSave Campus Programs and directing their implementation in seven states and India, Ghana and Serbia.

She has designed and conducted research on innovative approaches to consumer energy education and designed field tests and pilot projects that have established the effectiveness of consumer energy education in reducing energy consumption, both in the short and long term.

Merrilee has been trained in community-based social marketing and has used its principles in program design over the past 15 years. Prior to her tenure at the Alliance, she educated consumers and students through the Tennessee Valley Authority, Edison Electric Institute and the University of Massachusetts Energy Office.