Yusi Turell is Director of Training at the Center for Impact Finance at the University of New Hampshire (UNH)’s Carsey School of Public Policy, where she oversees its growing portfolio of training and capacity-building activities. The Center offers applied trainings in community development finance, with an emphasis on clean energy and an equitable climate transition that prioritizes low-income and disadvantaged communities. Trainings are integrated with the Center’s other core activities: original applied research, convenings towards collaborative solutions to sector-level challenges, and development of innovative financing products, projects, and policies.
Previously at UNH, Yusi served as founding co-director of the Center for Social Innovation and Enterprise, a joint venture of UNH’s Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics and Carsey School of Public Policy offering experiential learning opportunities for students at the nexus of individual entrepreneurship and sustained social change. She taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Social Enterprise and Business, Government, & Society and worked with a team to launch the Carsey School’s master’s program in Community Development Policy & Practice.
Prior to joining UNH in 2011, Yusi worked as a national program director for Citizen Schools, where she led the national expansion of a Boston capstone program to 25 campuses in five states and chaired a steering committee that updated the organization’s theory of change. She also served as a senior consultant at Ernst & Young’s Center for Business Innovation and as a researcher at Harvard Business School. Yusi holds a B.S.E. in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University and an M.Phil. in Technology and Innovation Management from the University of Sussex, U.K. through a Marshall scholarship. She is a PhD candidate at UNH with research in social innovation, public policy, and institutional entrepreneurship. Yusi lives in Durham, NH, with her family.
