Cristen Farley

Marketing Communications Specialist 3

CFarley@lbl.gov

eta.lbl.gov/people/Cristen-Farley

Bio

Cristen Farley is a Scientific Graphic Artist in the Communications Office of the Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She has worked with Berkeley Lab since 2014 as a design consultant and joined the lab full time in the fall of 2020.

Farley has nearly 10 years of design experience specializing in climate and energy. Over the course of her career, Cristen has worked with a wide range of companies and organizations including Strategen Consulting, California Air Resources Board, Analysis Group, CalETC, CALSTART, NantEnergy, Extensible Energy, American Lung Association, Merck Family Fund, and Ygrene Financing to name a few.

She strives to bridge the gap between complex information and target audiences through the use of visual aesthetics. She brings a full menu of skills and techniques to her work, which range from designing pitch presentations, data graphics, and scientific illustrations to branding, reports and photo editing. Her design work is more than what you see at first glance; it’s always strategic, and every detail has a purpose.

Awards

Spot: Multifamily Building Efficiency Screening Tool Team - October 31st 2023

Rapid development of the comprehensive and easy to use Multifamily Building Efficiency Screening Tool for HUD.

HUD MBEST Tool Development - May 25th 2023

A team of BTUS researchers created the Multifamily Building Efficiency Screening Tool (MBEST) for HUD's Green and Resilient Retrofit Program (GRRP) [https://www.hud.gov/grrp/leadingedge]. The GRRP covers grants and loans of almost $5 billion of investment in multifamily housing. The tool will be used to screen multifamily buildings and understand current opportunities for energy efficiency improvements. The tool allows building managers and owners to enter information about lighting, HVAC heating/cooling systems, domestic hot water systems, and the building envelope to come up with a building score that allows HUD to make decisions about investing in building upgrades. The key reason for this SPOT nomination is that the LBNL team worked under considerable time pressure to create the tool in just a few weeks to meet HUDs deadline for launching the program and utilized their expertise and knowledge over a broad range of multifamily building performance to make the tool both comprehensive and easy to use.

Spot: Cristen Farley - February 10th 2022

Cristen Farley went above and beyond in making sure that all ETA sites met branding and design standards as we performed a major update to our Content Management Systems.

Spot: Strategic Plan Refresh Team - May 3rd 2021

For exceptional service and professionalism in the design, development and production of ETA's 2021 Strategic Plan Refresh.

Kiran Julin profile page

Purabi Thakre profile page

Karyn Houston profile page

Cristen Farley profile page

Erin Bertiglia profile page

Spot: Natasha Nelson, Marie Butson, Karyn Houston, Cristen Farley - April 26th 2021

For exceptional contributions to the production of the 2021 Lab Director's Area Review for ETA.

Natasha Nelson profile page

Marie Butson profile page

Karyn Houston profile page

Cristen Farley profile page

Spot: Kiran Julin and Cristen Farley - March 19th 2021

For exceptional collaborative contributions to the successful China Energy Outlook website completion under a short timeline.

Kiran Julin profile page

Cristen Farley profile page

Spot: Kiran Julin, Cristen Farley - March 19th 2021

For exceptional collaborative contributions to the successful China Energy Outlook website completion under short timeline.