Natalie Fausel, AICP [Partner]
Natalie Fausel has served over 20 years in the land use, water resources, and climate resilience fields. Prior to joining the Anfield team, she served as the Florida Director of Government Affairs for Renew Financial, a Property Assessed Clean Energy Financing (PACE) company providing funding to private properties for energy efficiency, renewable energy and wind mitigation improvements to their properties.
Recently, Natalie served as Palm Beach County’s first Climate Change and Sustainability Coordinator leading the County’s climate change and sustainability efforts including representation with the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact and working across departments to identify, prioritize, plan, develop, promote, and coordinate climate change and sustainability initiatives in the areas of water, energy, transportation, and procurement, to name a few.
Her experience further incorporates 9 years at the South Florida Water Management District including work in intergovernmental coordination, regional water supply planning, sea level rise and climate change issues, water conservation and alternative water supply, and policy analysis. From 1999 to 2006, she was also at the South Florida Regional Planning Council as an economic planner, the City of Hollywood as the Zoning Manager and Development Review supervisor, and Calvin Giordano and Associates, Inc. where she worked on large developments, DRIs, and providing local community development services.
Natalie holds a B.A. and M.A. in Marine Policy from the University of Miami and the University of Rhode Island respectively and is a member of the Palm Beach Planning Congress, American Planning Association, and Association of Climate Change Officers.