Charissee Ridgeway

Charissee Ridgeway is a communications professional with experience across government, political campaigns, and advocacy. She currently serves as Senior Communications Advisor with the Environmental Protection Network (EPN), where she leads messaging strategy, media engagement, and external communications. Her work focuses on elevating community voices and ensuring federal actions are accountable, transparent, and people-centered.

Charissee has previously served in communications roles with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, the Biden–Harris campaign in Wisconsin, the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At EPA, she led communications for the Investing in America portfolio, including more than $100 billion in historic investments in climate, clean energy, infrastructure, and environmental justice.

Charissee is passionate about helping communities understand how federal decisions affect their daily lives and access to opportunities—a commitment she credits to her parents and grandparents, who taught her about the civil rights movement at an early age. Born and raised in Kentucky, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Kentucky and later received a Master’s degree in Political Management from The George Washington University.