Keishaa Austin
Head of Engagement & Partnerships, Rewiring America
Keishaa Austin is the Head of Engagement and Partnerships at Rewiring America. She joins Rewiring America from the Energy Division at the California Public Utilities Commission, where she served as a Senior Public Utilities Regulatory Analyst in Grid Planning and Reliability. While at the CPUC she led the development of the CPUC’s Distributed Energy Resources’ Action Plan 2.0. Prior to that she worked as a Program Analyst at the Office of the People’s Counsel for the District of Columbia, where she developed engagement and outreach programs focused on Distributed Energy Resources. Before earning her law degree, Keishaa held a variety of roles with media and entertainment companies including Urban One Inc., BET Networks and Capitol Music Group. Keishaa earned her law degree at Texas Southern University and her bachelor’s degree from Howard University. Keishaa is from Los Angeles, CA.