Andy Freeberg
Director of Communications
Andy Freeberg leads Zap Energy’s efforts to engage and inspire key audiences with the company’s work realizing the potential of nuclear energy and building a clean energy source for the future.
Freeberg is an accomplished science and technology communications leader with a career spanning press, digital media and creative roles at world-leading government, academic, and industry research institutions. This includes positions at the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University, the University of Washington College of Engineering, the Pacific Marine Energy Center, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. In all of these positions, he supported scientists and engineers in deep technical fields, especially in areas of physics, the environment, and clean energy technology.
Freeberg holds an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking from Montana State University and a BS in Radio/Television/Film and Environmental Science from Northwestern University. He serves on the board of the Association of Science Communicators and is a member of the Northwest Science Writers Association.