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Maria Surma Manka is a senior account executive at Tunheim Partners, a leading strategic communications firm in Minnesota. Prior to the public relations world, Maria worked in communications at Fresh Energy, a nonprofit energy policy organization. Since 2006, she has covered energy policy and cleantech innovations on her blog, Maria Energia. She is also a former contributor to the Green Options blog network and her writings have appeared throughout the green blogosphere.
Maria is a traveler, a novice scuba diver and loves anything related to food: growing it, hunting it, cooking it, eating it. She appears as a riveted audience member in the film An Inconvenient Truth. Maria on Twitter.