Jamie Ptacek

Communications Manager

Jamie joined CETI in November 2023 as Communications Manager and leads all internal and external communications efforts, including the production of reports, webinars, newsletters, blogs, infographics, and development materials. She also tracks climate and clean energy policy in the four Northwest states.

She is a detail-oriented strategic thinker, skilled project manager, and conscientious collaborator who possesses an understanding of the clean energy landscape in the Northwest and an ability to translate complex concepts into accessible communications products. She applies a justice lens to her work and is committed to ensuring that the clean energy transition unfolds equitably.

With a background in community organizing and advocacy, Jamie was a key member of the community engagement team for the Rural Clean Energy Economics and Community Engagement Study and Report and managed the production of the 193-page report. This work included creating and managing a detailed project plan, shepherding the draft through several iterations of editing between CETI and the two other consulting firms collaborating on the project, and performing careful and detailed copy editing of the final report.

Jamie spent the past decade working for several nonprofit organizations on campaigns to address issues at the intersection of climate change and social justice on the local, state, and national levels. She has worked as a campaign manager, organizer, and communications specialist with the Sunrise MovementCitizen’s Climate LobbyFuturewise, and Disability Rights Washington.

Jamie graduated from Bowdoin College in 2017, where she studied Climate Science and received departmental honors for her thesis exploring deep-sea bamboo corals as climate, ocean chemistry, and ocean geometry archives. She published this study, in collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute’s Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, in Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters.