Lisa Margonelli

Lisa Margonelli writes about the global culture and economy of energy. Her book about the oil supply chain, Oil On the Brain: Adventures from Pump To Pipeline, was published by Nan Talese/Doubleday in 2007. She has also been published in the New York Times online, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, The Atlantic Monthly, Discover, Salon, Business 2.0, Health, Jane, San Francisco Magazine and California Monthly, among other publications. Her column, “Money Tales,” which combined economics and oral history in the San Francisco Chronicle online, won an Excellence in Journalism award from the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists in 2003. In 1999-2000, she was awarded a Sundance Fellowship to write about the effect of globalization on the stories told by Eastern European filmmakers. She is a graduate of Yale University.

As a California-based Fellow at the New America Foundation, Ms. Margonelli’s work includes an examination of the promise and possibility of the post-oil world and California’s unique opportunity to benefit from new technologies and policies. She is also looking at the unexpected complications of alternative fuels and energy efficiency.

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