Crystal Bergemann is the Senior Advisor for Climate for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Office of the Secretary. She leads HUD’s Climate, Resilience, and Environmental Justice work including the implementation of the agency’s first comprehensive Climate Action Plan. Crystal is an expert in green, healthy, and energy efficient affordable housing and has spent much of her career at HUD working to advance green and equitable building priorities across the agency. Outside of HUD, she has experience working on policy issues for the U.S. Department of Energy and most recently worked to further multifamily affordable housing preservation in underserved markets at Fannie Mae and served as an advisor for the company’s ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) division. Crystal holds a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from New York University focused on environmental policy.