Ms. Cumming is a Project Manager at Battelle, an independent research and development organization. She has managed national and international collaborative research projects to advance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies through assessment of technical, risk, and other factors. She has performed outreach and project development activities for five CCS field projects in the Midwestern U.S. Her experience gained from flagship initiatives such as the Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships and the Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise, as well as CCS Capacity Building Trust Fund projects in China and Mexico, has given her a deep appreciation for science driven innovation and collaboration. She is currently the project manager for the Mid-Atlantic U.S. Offshore Carbon Storage Resource Assessment Project, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Carbon Storage Program to improve the effectiveness and reduce the costs of carbon storage.

Ms. Cumming earned her Bachelor’s degree in Geology from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.