Stories by Cathleen Kelly

Cathleen Kelly is a senior fellow at American Progress. She specializes in international and U.S. climate mitigation, preparedness, resilience and sustainable development policy. Kelly served in the Obama administration at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where she led a 20-plus-agency task force to develop a national climate resilience strategy. This strategy helped form the basis of the climate-preparedness pillar of the President’s Climate Action Plan. Kelly also helped formulate the administration’s positions on international sustainable development and climate policy issues.