Mithra Moezzi is a statistician and anthropological folklorist. She has worked in the energy, buildings, climate change, and sustainability industries at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Portland State University, Ecole des Mines Paris, and Ghoulem Research. She is the founder and manager of QQForward, an organization who develops and executes innovative, high-quality, and evidence-centered research for government, universities, and foundations. The goal of QQForward is to combine the best of academic research with insights from practitioners and the public to create usable recommendations and tools that help create a better world for people and nature together.