Shanna Draheim joined Public Sector Consultants in 2011 as a Senior Consultant. She conducts research and analysis, and manages projects for the firm and its clients on a wide range of subjects, including energy, water quality, land use, urban policy, and natural resource management. Ms. Draheim brings significant expertise in community and environmental planning, energy efficiency and renewable energy program development, environmental planning, and grant writing and management.

Prior to joining PSC, Ms. Draheim was the head of Shepherd Advisors’ Community Sustainability practice area, and managed several energy efficiency, community alternative energy, bio-economy, and water technology projects with municipal and state clients. She also worked for over a decade in federal and state government. With the State of Michigan’s Great Lakes programs, she lead efforts to develop and implement management plans and restoration criteria for historically contaminated waterways, and co-authored the state’s restoration criteria for Great Lakes Areas of Concern. At the federal level, she worked for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation managing environmental grant programs, developing watershed and wetland protection programs, and reviewing federal energy projects for compliance with environmental regulations.

Ms. Draheim holds a BA from Michigan State University’s James Madison College of Public Policy, and a MA in Environmental Planning from Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

sdraheim@pscinc.com