Sarah Brady is the director of the California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Office of Governmental and International Affairs.
The Office of Governmental and International Affairs’ primary mission is to maintain a cooperative relationship among the CEC, the administration, and the members and staff of the California State Legislature.
Before joining the CEC, Brady was the interim CEO and deputy director at the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) where she has served in various roles since 2016. She provided strategic leadership to fulfill CCST’s mission to provide science and technology advice to the State and directed the CCST Science Fellows Program.
She worked as legislative aide and then as legislative director in the Office of State Assemblymember Susan Bonilla, where she was hired after being placed there as a CCST Science Fellow in 2014.
Brady has bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and French from North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. She earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Oregon where she researched the degradation of plastics. She taught elementary school science in Eastern Oregon as a National Science Foundation (NSF) GK-12 Fellow and conducted polymer chemistry research at Hong Kong Baptist University as part of an NSF international exchange program.