Maria Robinson is currently a Massachusetts State Representative serving the Sixth Middlesex District. She was sworn into office in 2019, as the first Korean-American elected to the General Court of Massachusetts. Previously, she focused on regulatory issues relating to energy and air at the FERC, including leading the organization’s state Clean Power Plan campaign, which covered over two dozen states across the country. She interned with the U.S. EPA’s office of Water and with former U.S. Representative (now Governor) Jay Inslee. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Masters in Energy Law from the University of Tulsa.