Rose Strauss

About

Rose Strauss (she/her) is a joint Juris Doctor and Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Goldman School of Public Policy. As a youth activist facing the climate crisis, Rose often felt she had no place at the policy decision-making table. So, she built her own.
 
Rose started 350 Bay Area’s youth chapter at 15 and later spearheaded initiatives with the Sunrise Movement, Future Coalition, and Project Super Bloom. Rose’s organizing efforts were featured in the Guardian and the New York Times. Eager to turn her advocacy into real policy change, Rose sought to understand the inter-workings of the political process. She interned on the hill and with her local government. She worked as an analyst for the California Energy Commission, a graduate student researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Electricity Markets and Policy Group, and most recently completed an internship at the White House Infrastructure Implementation Team focused on energy policy.
 
As a public policy and law student, Rose hopes to work at the intersection between policy and politics by making climate policy accessible to those who are not professionals and politicians. Rose graduated summa cum laude from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a BA in Environmental Studies and a minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice in 2021. In her free time, she enjoys exploring the outdoors and playing guitar.

Policy Interests

• Energy, Renewable and Clean Energy
• Climate Change
• Elections
• Poverty & Inequality
• Government
• Politics