Kelly Sims Gallagher is a professor of energy and environmental policy and Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University.
[2] During her upbringing she "took a clean and natural environment for granted" before moving to Los Angeles, California to attend Occidental College.
There, she suffered from pneumonia due to air pollution, which led to complete a second major in environmental studies.
degree in diplomacy & world affairs and environmental studies, she was awarded a Truman Scholarship and worked in Washington, D.C. as an intern in the Office of the Vice President and, later, as the science policy director at Ozone Action.
There, she studied East Asia with a focus on the development, environment, and negotiation in China and received her degree in 2000.