Expert Speakers + Facilitators
Join us at emPOWER20 to connect with the clean energy ecosystem’s best!
Aaron Jamal
Regional Organizer
Carolina Federation
Abel Gustafson, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Associate
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
Abigail Regitsky, Ph.D
Professional Staff Member
House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
Agustin Cornejo
Beyond the Grid Advisor, Power Africa Transactions and Reforms Program (PATRP),
Tetra Tech
Alexis Plair
Product Manager
Tesla
Amee Raval
Research Director
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Andrew Held
Energy Program Specialist
BEPS, DOEE
Anjali Bains
Senior Policy Associate
Fresh Energy
Apoorv Bhargava
CEO
Weave Grid
Bakeyah Nelson, PhD
Executive Director
Air Alliance Houston
Becca Ward
Senior Director
Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Bob Keefe
Executive Director
Environmental Entrepreneurs
Bob Litterman
Chairman of the Risk Committee
Kepos Capital LP
Bryan Garcia
President and CEO
Connecticut Green Bank
Carlos Garcia
Energy Planner
NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA)
Carmelita Miller
Energy Equity Director
The Greenlining Institute
Cassandra A. John
Managing Director
Sif Capital Advisors
Cecilio Aponte
Senior Analyst, Origination
sPower
Christina Bowman
Senior Manager
UMD Center for Global Sustainability
Dr. Clea Kolster
Director of Science
Lower Carbon Capital
Cristina Garcia
Assistant Director
Building Electrification Initiative
Cole Ashman
Hardware Product Manager
Span.IO
Dan Shugar
CEO and Founder
NEXTracker, Inc.
Damian Bednarz
External Affairs Director
EnBW North America
Demond Drummer
Co-Founder & Executive Director
New Consensus
Devin Hampton
CEO
Utility API
Diane Hughes
VP of Marketing and Communications
NuScale Power
Donnel Baird
Founder and CEO
BlocPower
Edwin Luevanos
Co-Founder and CEO
Citizen Energy
Emma Bell
Renewable Energy Investments Associate
J.P. Morgan
Emma Gillespie Cox
North American Sustainability
McDonald's
Eric R. Martin
Managing Director
Adaptive Change Advisors
Farah Benahmed
Clean Energy Policy Associate
Gates Ventures
Gerard Neely
Associate
Madison Energy Investments
Greg Miller
Energy Systems PhD Student
UC Davis
Hannah Kornfeld
Air Quality and Climate Change Specialist
Ascent Environmental
Ivana Jemelkova
Managing Director, Strategic Communications
FTI Consulting
Jacqueline Patterson
Senior Director
Environmental and Climate Justice Program
NAACP
Jared DeWese
Senior Communications Advisor
Third Way
Dr. Jasenka Rakas
Deputy Director
UC Berkeley National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR)
Jennifer States
Director for Blue Economy
DNV GL – Energy and Maritime North America
Dr. Joe F. Bozeman III
Research Associate
Institute for Environmental Science and Policy
Joe Indvik
Head of Clean Energy Finance
RE Tech Advisors
Jose Beceiro
Senior Director, Global Energy 2.0
The Greater Houston Partnership
Jon Faltis
Chief Financial Officer
Arevon/Capital Dynamics
Julia Hamm
CEO
Smart Electric Power Alliance
Julia Pyper
Host and Producer, Political Climate
Contributing Editor, Greentech Media
Juliana Garaizar
Launch Director - Houston
Greentown Labs
Kay McCall
Executive Director
Renewable Energy Alliance - Houston
Kelly Fleming, Ph.D
Research and Policy Analyst
UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment, and the Economy
Lara Cottingham
Chief of Staff and Chief Sustainability Officer
City of Houston
Leah Stokes
Assistant Professor, Political Science
UC Santa Barbara
Laura Wang
Product Manager
Kevala, Inc.
Lauren Gore
Lead Principal
LDR Advisory Partners
Lee Beck
CCUS Policy Innovation
Clean Air Task Force
Senior Fellow
Atlantic Council GEC
Liz Ramsay Dalton
Executive Director
Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Madison Freeman
Research and Strategy Analyst
Energy Impact Partners
Maggie Monast
Director, Working Lands
Environmental Defense Fund
Malini Kannan
2019 Fellow
CELI
Dr. Margaret Cherne-Hendrick
Director, Beneficial Electrification
Fresh Energy
Maribeth DeLorenzo, PhD
Deputy Director, Urban Sustainability Administration
DC Department of Energy & Environment
Mark Chambers
Chief Sustainability Officer
City of New York
Mark Hughes, Jr.
Battery Engineer
SILA Nanotechnologies
Melanie Nakagawa
Director of Climate Strategy
Princeville Capital
Mike Kohn
Chief People Officer
Marts & Lundy
Miranda Ballentine
Chief Executive Officer
Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance
Molly Graham
Senior Program Manage
Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA)
Morgan D. Bazilian, Ph.D.
Director, Payne Institute
Professor of Public Policy
Colorado School of Mines
Nakhia Morrissette
Central Region Director & Counsel
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)
Nate Kinsey
Former CA Director
Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Congresswoman Nanette Diaz Barragán
U.S. Representative
California’s 44th Congressional District
Nick Thorpe
Climate & Energy Program Associate
Earthjustice
Panama Bartholomy
Director
Building Decarbonization Coalition
Pari Kasotia
Mid-Atlantic Director
Vote Solar
Patricio Portillo
Transportation Analyst
Natural Resources Defense Council
Paula Gant, Ph.D
Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy & Innovation
GTI
Peyman Allahvirdizadeh
Director, Talent & Culture
Sparkfund
Praveen Kathpal
VP of New Business
AES Next
Rachel Kriegsman
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Clean Energy Leadership Institute
Richard Kauffman
Chair, Generate Capital
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar
Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy
Roger Ballentine
President
Green Strategies, Inc.
Rose McKinney-James
Chair, Energy Foundation
Managing Partner
McKinney-James & Associates
Rozina Kanchwala
Founder and Executive Director
Eco.Logic
Rukmani Vijayaraghavan
AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
U.S. Department of Energy
Samir Das
Director of Marketing and Analytics
WGL Energy
Sanjna Malpani
Fellow
Antler
Shalanda H. Baker
Professor of Law, Public Policy, + Urban Affairs
Co-founder and Co-Director
Initiative for Energy Justice
Northeastern University School of Law
Spencer Nelson
Professional Staff Member
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Tim Latimer
CEO
Fervo Energy
Troy Hodges
Data Scientist
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Varun Sivaram, PhD
Visiting Senior Fellow,
Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy
Former CTO, ReNew Power
Wahleah Johns
Executive Director
Native Renewables
Wesley Lien
Finance Manager
Pattern Energy Group