Brooke Marshall Garcia is a principal member of technical staff and technical project manager in the Renewable Energy and Distributed Systems Integration group at Sandia National Laboratories. She is a licensed civil engineer with extensive experience in water resource modeling and site planning. She has an advanced business degree in Policy and Planning. Both her BSCE (2001) and her MBA (2007) are from the University of New Mexico. She has been a leader on the microgrid course design team, and a field facilitator for vulnerable communities outreach and support. Her research is focused on helping communities improve resilience through standardized microgrid design processes.