Vanessa Grisko is the Chief of Staff for the Office of Energy Jobs at the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to that, she was the Special Advisor for the Office of the Undersecretary for Science and Innovation, and previously served as the office’s Special Assistant. Prior to her time at DOE, Vanessa was the Deputy Distributed Director for the 2020 Florida Democratic Coordinated Campaign, as well as the National Spanish Text Team Organizer for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign. Prior to campaigns, she worked as a Sustainability Consultant in Chicago, helping hundreds of buildings become more sustainable. Grisko is the daughter of an immigrant mother and earned a B.S. in Environmental Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is from Marco Island, Florida.