Lili Griffin is an environmental engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy's Boston Regional Office, where she oversees grants for both the energy efficiency Buildings Standards and Guidelines and BioPower and BioFuels programs. She holds a degree from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Griffin enjoys marketing renewable energy in the New England area and in her spare time studying gender communication expression, women's history, and in particular technological games for girls and women that encourage them to express aspects of self-identity that transcend stereotyped gender categories

After having spent sixteen years working as an environmental engineer applying her training from the cleanup of nuclear weapons plants to the design of wastewater and water treatment facilities, Griffin began to bring her knowledge of engineering to the design of websites to promote renewable energy markets, encouraging government sponsorship of Business-to-Business B2B website for renewable energy industry where buyers and sellers auction their products.

Along with her supporting consultants, she has been successful in developing widespread government awareness and importance of assisting renewable energy industries to compete on e-commerce market places -- assisting in making the purchase of products "Made from Renewables" part of mainstream American life.

Griffin has spoken about the opportunities for renewables markets in e-commerce at conferences around the nation, including NEEP, BioEnergy 2000, as well as to industry leaders in companies such as BC International, Booz Allen Hamilton, and SAIC.

In the context of a Department of Energy downsizing effort in 1998, she was recognized for her efforts to minimize the impacts of a reduction-in-force that disproportionately impacted women engineers and scientists. In particular, she analyzed the impacts of the government downsizing efforts for review by key women in the U.S. Congress and the Senate. In addition, she designed and coordinated workshops to encourage women scientists and engineers to pursue starting small women-owned businesses and consulting companies. A link to resources for women in engineering are provided.