Lindsey Baxter Griffith is a policy and advocacy expert on climate and clean energy issues, which led her to found Clean Tomorrow. Until recently, she was the Executive Director of CATF Action and a senior director of policy and advocacy at Clean Air Task Force, where she led the development of the policy platforms and political strategy in the United States around climate and clean technology innovation. She and her team worked extensively on the content and passage of clean energy tax provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act, hubs and other major energy demonstration investments in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and reauthorization of key programs in the Energy Act of 2020. Lindsey previously served as the climate policy advisor to Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts in the United States Senate, where she authored and negotiated the Green New Deal, and as the Chief of Staff for Energy Policy and Systems Analysis at the Department of Energy, where she was the resident expert on international electricity and climate regulations. Lindsey has been a fellow at Georgetown’s Institute for the Study of Diplomacy and worked on the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Climate Change Corporate Initiative.

Outside of her professional career, Lindsey has been a fifth-generation member of the Andrus family for fifteen years. For her part, Lindsey currently serves as a director on the board of Andrus-on-Hudson, a non-profit skilled nursing facility serving around 200 post-hospital long-term care patients in Westchester County, New York. Lindsey was previously Chair of the Andrus Family Fund (AFF), a next generation advisory board to the Surdna Foundation, where she advised on the direction of millions annually to grantees seeking abolition within systems of family policing and criminal justice. During her decade of service, Lindsey negotiated in the family board room for additional financial resources to be available to partners during the pandemic. In addition to seeking out and providing initial seed funding for new partners that have changed the organizing landscape on racial justice, including the Movement for Black Lives, Lindsey successfully led an internal governance effort to diversify the next generation board of the Andrus family.

These days, Lindsey’s passions for next generation climate advocacy and non-profit governance are fueled by the curiosity, relentless effort, and accountability that comes with being a parent to two young kids. She and her husband met in Portland, Oregon, where they worked on political campaigns before settling in Washington, DC.