
Julia Byrd
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Julia Byrd linkedinJulia Byrd is a Program Manager for Columbia University’s NYSERDA Entrepreneur-in-Residence program where she helps pair promising climate tech startups with paid mentors to assist in a variety of tasks. Previously, she was Associate Director of PowerBridgeNY, an accelerator program for cleantech companies coming out of the partner universities that ran for 8 years. She applies her lessons learned from running entrepreneurial programs to her consultancy, Byrd Consulting, which services clients who are starting new programs for startups and are looking for assistance with curriculum development and instruction during the early years of their programs. Julia has a BA from George Washington University in Russian and Environmental Studies and an MS in Sustainability Management from Columbia University.