Iona Isachsen

Project Manager

Iona Isachsen is a Project Manager at SSC, where she manages the Cities for Smart Surfaces program and supports policymakers and program developers in adopting cost-effective urban resilience strategies. Iona also oversees the Cool Roadways Partnership, the leading forum for reflective pavement performance research and adoption insights. Iona is an active member of the Cool Roof Rating Council’s Education Committee and Pavement Ratings Steering Committee.

Before joining SSC, Iona conducted laboratory research on environmental detoxification with algae at the Arizona Center for Algae Technology and Innovation and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Prior to this, Iona supported the work of an Arizona Corporation Commissioner on the Navajo Nation by researching best practices for equitable socioeconomic transitions of coal-based communities following coal plant closures.

Iona holds a B.S. in Conservation Biology & Ecology with a minor in Sustainability and a certificate in Energy Studies from Arizona State University, where she researched heavy metal recovery and management with extremophilic microalgae.