Gesa Michel is the Gunnison Valley Regional Housing Authority’s Energy Programs Director, running GV-HEAT or the Gunnison Valley – Home Energy Advancement Team. She has been with the Housing Authority since August 2020.

She has lived in the Gunnison Valley for over 26 years and has enjoyed devoting her professional career moving this community towards a more sustainable future. She used her project management and creative skills working for local non-profits most of that time.

Gesa grew up in Hamburg, Germany. She received her Master’s in Business Administration from the Friedrich-Alexander Universität in Nuremberg, Germany and then a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management from the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Gesa came to the United States on a scholarship to play Division I field-hockey for the University of Iowa and has now lived in the USA for more than half of her life. She enjoys exploring the outdoors with her husband and two grown sons when she is not playing ice-hockey or skiing in the winter or hiking, boating, or riding horses in the summer.