About Me

“Power isn’t just technical. It’s personal, political, and profoundly uneven.”

My name is Ogechi Vivian Nwadiaru, and I believe stories are infrastructure.

I come to energy research not just through equations and code but through lived experience. Growing up in Lagos, power outages shaped the rhythm of our days, and backup generators were as normal as breathing, these early encounters with scarcity and adaptation shaped how I see the energy transition: not just as a technical fix but as a layered, human process that must be inclusive, imaginative, and just.

I’m a researcher, modeler, and storyteller. My work explores how communities can co-design the systems meant to serve them, from collaboratively owned energy storage to tools that embed community values into decision-making. I use optimization, simulation, and stakeholder engagement to rethink how we plan for resilience, especially during moments of crisis, like extreme weather or prolonged outages.

But I also write about travel, community, and growth, finding joy in precarity and the echoes of home. Nomadic Narrative is my way of holding those threads together. It’s a digital field notebook, a portfolio, and a quiet rebellion against the idea that data and narrative must live apart.

Whether I’m in Massachusetts, Lagos, or somewhere in between, my question is always:
Whose power and voice are being centred? And how can we use quantitative insights to provide evidence?

Thank you for being here, and feel free to reach out if you want to chat.
Let’s build systems and stories that hold more of us.