Staff

Frank Rambo
Executive Director and Board Chair

Frank Rambo has 20 years of experience working on climate change issues, with a focus on the domestic power sector. He spent six years as an attorney in the Washington, D.C. office of Baker Botts LLP, where he specialized in Clean Air Act requirements for electric generators, followed by 14 at the Southern Environmental Law Center, which houses the country’s third largest legal staff among environmental nonprofits. There, he led SELC’s Clean Energy and Air program, its largest program area, and focused on environmental and economic issues associated with the ways we make, move, and use electric power. In 2022, Rambo launched the Horizon Climate Initiative.  He received his J.D. from New York University and holds a B.S. from Sewanee: The University of the South. 

Jennifer Smith
Operations Manager

Jennifer Smith has more than 15 years of experience in project management, writing and editing, crisis communications, and nonprofit fundraising at organizations including The Financial Services Roundtable and Investment Company Institute in Washington, DC, The Mayhew Animal Home in the U.K., and The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which manages the Monticello.