Join the Center for Progressive Reform on Thursday, May 21 at 1 p.m. Eastern time for a webinar, “Exploring Community Benefits Alongside Former DOE Officials: Achievements, Challenges, and What Lies Ahead.” In this webinar, we will engage with former Department of Energy (DOE) officials to explore how Community Benefits Plans (CBPs) provided a coherent framework and played a key role tying together climate, energy, labor, and DEIJ goals during the Biden administration. We will assess the obstacles that emerged during implementation and how to address these challenges in the future.
Panelists will explain the steps that are necessary for effective policy implementation, what worked well inside DOE and what didn’t, and how CBPs remain a valuable implementation tool for achieving multiple policy goals simultaneously.
Offering their insights will be:
- Shalanda Baker: Professor of Environment and Sustainability; Vice Provost for Sustainability and Climate Action, University of Michigan. During the Biden-Harris administration, she served as the Director of the Office of Energy Justice and Equity at the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Betony Jones: Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and Senior Policy Research Advisor on the Green Economy at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. During the Biden-Harris administration, she served as Director of the Office of Energy Jobs and Senior Advisor for Labor to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Sara Wylie: Assistant Professor at Northeastern University with a joint appointment in sociology/anthropology and health sciences. During the Biden-Harris administration, she served as Energy Justice Science, Technology and Policy Fellow with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity.
- Moderator: Federico Holm, research scientist at the Center for Progressive Reform.
