Shalanda H. Baker
Shalanda Baker is a professor of law, policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University School of Law. She works closely with colleagues in Northeastern’s Global Resilience Institute, linking it to the School of Law’s Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity (CLIC). She teaches courses at the law school and in the College of Social Sciences and Humanities related to her research interests in environmental law and energy law. Before joining Northeastern’s faculty in 2017, Professor Baker spent three years as an associate professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i, where she was the founding director of the Energy Justice Program. Prior to that, she served on the faculty at University of San Francisco School of Law.
Todd Barker
Board Chair
Todd Barker is a Senior Partner at Meridian Institute; he joined Meridian in 1999. Mr. Barker has more than 15 years of experience facilitating policy dialogues, negotiations, and strategy development processes.
Kevin Cavanaugh
Kevin Cavanaugh is Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer at the Science History Institute. Previously, he had served as Chief Financial Officer of Vanguard Charitable, one of the country’s largest donor advised funds. He has over 25 years of finance, accounting, and management experience in the for-profit and non-profit sectors.
Brian F. Keane
Brian F. Keane is President of SmartPower, a nationwide nonprofit marketing organization dedicated to promoting clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency. Hailed as the “Got Milk” campaign for wind, solar and offshore energy.
Kenneth Locklin
Kenneth R. Locklin, Managing Director (North America) for Impax Asset Management LLC, is a senior investment executive with 30 years of finance experience, and a 20 year commitment to clean energy enterprise investment, development, management, and finance.
Lewis Milford, Esq.
President
Lewis Milford is the president of Clean Energy Group, as well as the Founder of Clean Energy States Alliance. He was Vice President of Conservation Law Foundation and previously served as a New York Assistant Attorney General.
Greg Watson
Greg Watson is the Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics where he founded the Cuba-U.S. Agroecology Network. From 1984-1990 Greg served as Assistant Secretary in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Affairs. Greg has also served as the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust – a program to promote the development of renewable energy options for Massachusetts ratepayers following the restructuring of the state’s electric utilities. In 2008, he served on President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. Department of Energy transition team.