Julie Metty Bennett is a vice president at Public Sector Consultants. Ms. Bennett manages the firm’s environment and energy practice area, provides strategic counsel and facilitation services, 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, community and economic development, and natural resource management. She serves as finance manager for Michigan Saves, a multi-million-dollar nonprofit organization managed by PSC that provides financing solutions for energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements. In this capacity, she designs financing programs and oversees organizational governance issues, accounting, and auditing. She also serves as manager of the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, a multimillion-dollar private foundation managed by PSC. In this capacity, she manages staff, budgets, and project tasks; provides strategic direction; and manages grants made to a variety of nonprofit and governmental entities.

Prior to joining PSC in 2000, Ms. Bennett worked for the Michigan United Conservation Clubs as an environmental policy specialist, representing the organization before local, state, and federal policymakers on energy, air quality, and waste management issues. She also managed a variety of issue-specific public education campaigns and coordinated grassroots activities related to the 1996 voter initiative, Proposal G. She then joined the National Wildlife Federation, successfully and strategically managing energy policy advocacy campaigns to educate and mobilize individuals, organizations, and federal, state, and local policymakers in furtherance of Great Lakes protection issues.

Ms. Bennett holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science, with a concentration in Environmental Policy and a second major in Political Science, and an MS in Resource Development, with specialization in Environmental Toxicology, both from Michigan State University.

jmettybennett@pscinc.com