
Speakers for the Power Up Training: From Acts to Action
Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training
Power Up Training: From Acts to Action | April 2023
SPEAKERS

Ava Acevedo
Core Leadership Team, Green Schools Campaign; Undergraduate Student, Stanford University

Simon Aron
Founder, Green Schools Campaign; Youth Climate Reality Leader trained in July 2020 Global Training

The Honorable Shalanda H. Baker
Director of the Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, US Department of Energy; Secretarial Advisor on Equity, US Department of Energy

Scott Faber
Senior VP for Government Affairs, Environmental Working Group; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Catherine Coleman Flowers
Founding Director, Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice; Board Member, The Climate Reality Project

Julia R. Gordon
Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Tim Guinee
Climate Reality Leader, trained in Colorado in 2017; Founder, The Climate Actors; President, Climate Action Now

Mark Hague
Board Member, Environmental Protection Network; Board Chair, Environmental Protection Network

Mitch Landrieu
Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator, White House

John Podesta
Senior Advisor to the President for Clean Energy Innovation and Implementation, White House

Laura Schifter
Senior Fellow, This Is Planet Ed, The Aspen Institute; Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Betsy Southerland
Former Director of the Office of Science and Technology, EPA’s Office of Water; Member, Environmental Protection Network

Matthew S. Tejada
Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA) for Environmental Justice, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Ginger Sykes Torres
State Executive Director – Arizona, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA)

Uday Varadarajan
Senior Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI); Precourt Energy Scholar, Stanford Sustainable Finance Institute