Ben Anderson
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Jeff Anthony
Jeff Anthony joined the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) in March 2007. As AWEA’s Manager of Utility Programs and Policy, he is responsible for supporting utilities in their efforts to integrate and adopt wind power as a mainstream generation technology. He works with individual utilities across the U.S. as they expand their use of wind power, to aid them in their understanding of wind’s benefits, and to help them address integration and other implementation issues. Jeff also provide support to other policy development areas in AWEA. Prior to joining AWEA, Jeff worked at We Energies (Wisconsin Electric) for 19 years, most recently as the Manager of Renewable Energy Strategy. In that capacity, he was responsible for growing and accelerating the utility’s efforts in the renewable energy area and launched a number of new wind, solar, and biomass initiatives that led to recognition as one of the leading utilities in the country in terms of renewable energy adoption and advancement. Mr. Anthony graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and received an Executive MBA from Northwestern University.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Utility Interface and Program Development
- Policy Development on Utility Interest in Wind Power
- Support of Conferences and Workshops for Utility Interests
- Provide Wind Power Education and Awareness to Utilities
- Maintaining Working Relationships with UWIG, EEI, NRECA, APPA, EPRI, and ACORE on Wind Issues
Eric C. Apfelbach
Mr. Apfelbach began as President and CEO of Virent Energy Systems during the fall of 2003. He has led the company through three equity rounds, a debt placement, defined the market and product strategy, and been instrumental in securing the first customer, military projects, and strategic partners (Shell, Cargill and Honda).
Before Virent, Eric co-founded Alfalight where, as President & CEO, he grew the high power diode laser company from 0 to 85 employees in two years & raised $49 million of venture capital in three rounds. At Alfalight, he opened subsidiaries outside the U.S. and achieved world-class laser performance in record time; beating entrenched competitors in head to head benchmarks. Today, Alfalight is a market leader in telecom fiber-to-the-home and CATV markets, as well as the world record holder for laser efficiency for high power defense applications.
Prior to Alfalight, Eric was General Manager and a Corporate Officer at Planar Systems, Inc.(Nasdaq:PLNR) with P&L responsibility for the 310-person LCD division of a $135-million public company. Eric began his career working in the global semiconductor industry, rising to senior management at Applied Materials-the world’s largest semiconductor equipment company. Currently, Eric is active on multiple Venture Capital Advisory Boards, the University of Wisconsin, College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board, and a Board Member of TEC, Inc. Mr. Apfelbach was recently appointed by Governor Doyle (WI) to the Consortium on Bio-Based Industry. In 2006, He was elected to the Board of the Wisconsin Technology Council. He holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
Jim Burg
Jim Burg is a lifelong farmer operating a family-run diversified livestock and grain corporation, Firesteel Ranch, with his two sons and brother. During his time in the South Dakota legislature, Jim served as Assistant Minority Leader in both the South Dakota State Senate and State House. Jim also served on the South Dakota State Public Utilities Commission for 18 years, where for 12 years he was Commission Chair (1987-2004). He has also been involved in a variety of professional organizations including the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, Electric Power Research Institute, New Mexico State Forum, Powering the Plains, Wind on the Wires, and American Wind Energy Association. Jim received a B.S. in Animal Science in 1963 from South Dakota State University and served in the South Dakota National Guard from 1959-1989 as Lt. Colonel.
Steve Clemmer
Steve Clemmer is the Research Director for the Union of Concerned Scientist’s Clean Energy Program. He also manages UCS’ Midwest renewable energy project and serves on the Steering Committee of the National Wind Coordinating Collaborative. Prior to joining UCS, Mr. Clemmer was the Energy Policy Coordinator for the Wisconsin energy office from 1991-1997. He received a M.S. in Energy Analysis and Policy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. in Political Science and History from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
Bruce Dale
Professor Dale is Professor of Chemical Engineering and former Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University. In 1996 he won the Charles D. Scott Award for contributions to the use of biotechnology to produce fuels, chemical and other industrial products from renewable plant resources. In 2007 he won the Sterling Hendricks award for contributions to the chemical science of agriculture. He is interested in the environmentally sustainable conversion of plant matter to industrial products- fuels, chemicals and materials- while still meeting human and animal needs for food and feed. He led a National Research Council report entitled “Biobased Industrial Products: Research and Commercialization Priorities” which was published in May 2000. Dr. Dale has authored over 100 archival journal papers, is an active consultant to industry and expert witness and holds sixteen U. S. and foreign patents. He also serves at the Editor in Chief of a new Wiley journal Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefineries. He is the father of five children and the grandfather of fourteen.
Tim Donohue
Tim Donohue is a Professor of Bacteriology, who has been a faculty member at UW-Madison for over 20 years. During this time his research program has focused on solar energy utilization by photosynthetic bacteria, studying the process and control of photosynthesis and how cells divert the energy captured from sunlight into different pathways. He has been a member of various federal research panels, has served on several editorial boards and advisory committees in microbiology, and helped author reports for the Department of Energy of solar energy generation and the conversion of plant biomass into biofuels. He has experience in leading cross-disciplinary research programs like the NIGMS Biotechnology Training Program.
In 2007, Dr. Donohue was named head of the Wisconsin Bioenergy Initiative and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), a new 25M/year DOE-funded research center. The GLBRC will conduct basic, genomics-based research to design the microbial and plant systems needed to realize the potential of biofuels. Combining innovative science, a critical mass of natural assets and the corporate horsepower to build and advance a new bioenergy economy, the GLBRC will become a worldwide center of excellence for research and development of cellulosic ethanol and other bioenergy products. In support of this vision, GLBRC activities will be led by experts in plant biology, microbiology, molecular or cell biology, biochemistry, protein design, engineering, computer sciences, systems analysis, and ecology.
Dale Enerson
Dale Enerson serves as the Director of the National Farmers Union Carbon Credit Program headquartered at Jamestown, North Dakota. Until recently, he worked as the economist for North Dakota Farmers Union.
Dale holds a masters degree in agricultural education from North Dakota State University. Dale’s work experience includes no-till farming, teaching adult farm management education, serving as board chairman of Dakota Quality Grain Cooperative, working as a Farm Services Agency loan servicing contractor, working as a loan officer with Farm Credit Services, and teaching high school vocational agriculture. Dale and his family continue to farm part-time near Stanley, ND.
Dale and Mary Enerson are the parents of 4 children: Beth, Sara, Lars, and Nels.
Brent Hueth
Brent Hueth is the Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics. Professor Hueth received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining the University of Wisconsin, Brent spent two years at the University of California Berkeley as a Research Economist, and then eight years at Iowa State University as Associate Professor in the Department of Economics. His research and teaching focuses on all aspects of cooperative organization and performance. He is the Principal Investigator of a large-scale USDA-funded research project to measure the incidence and economic importance of cooperative activity nationwide. This research is expected to generate the most comprehensive inventory to date of U.S. cooperative firms, and will serve as a unique resource for researchers seeking to understand and improve cooperative performance.
Jocie Iszler
Jocie Iszler grew up on a small grains and cattle farm near Streeter, North Dakota and has a master's in communications from ND State University, Fargo. She currently serves as Ag Energy Policy Specialist for the Minnesota Project where she is also Director of the Midwest Ag Energy Network. She was employed as the Executive Director of the ND Corn Council and Growers Association from 2000-2007. Jocie served on an ethanol board and is past chair of the North Dakota Renewable Energy Partnership. Prior to her work in agriculture, Iszler, who also has a master's degree in nutrition, operated a nutrition communications company. She and her husband, Virgil, operate a small grains and soybeans farm and have two daughters; Sara who lives in Denver and Jenna who lives at home and attends MSUM in Moorhead. Jocie’s interests include music, reading, and travel.
Bill Johnson
William A. Johnson, Manager, Biofuels Development, Alliant Energy Corporation. Employed by Alliant Energy since 1991, he was manager of Agricultural Customer Services for 14 years and recently accepted the newly created position of Manager of Biofuels development, responsible for bio-based renewable energy programs for Alliant Energy’s proposed base load generation facilities in Cassville, WI and Marshalltown, IA. He also consults on anaerobic digestion agriculture and industrial biomass to energy projects. He served as an administrator at Blackhawk Technical College, Janesville, WI, for 16years where he also taught comparative anatomy & physiology, animal breeding and genetics. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of Southern Illinois University and the UW of Wisconsin-Madison, with degrees in Animal Science and Reproductive Physiology. He is published in several peer reviewed scientific journals. He his wife Tana and their dog Katie live outside Pardeeville, WI, they also own a 150-acre farm near Ontario, WI. Bill and his wife enjoy hunting, fishing and other wildlife enhancement and conservation activities.
Larry Krom
Larry Krom is a bioenergy project manager for Wisconsin’s Focus on Energy Renewable Energy Program. He is the program’s technical lead for biogas and wind turbine technologies for the industrial, agricultural and commercial sectors. Mr. Krom is also the president of L & S Technical Associates, Inc. - founded in 1975 as a multidisciplinary company that offers innovative research and development solutions for energy and physical sciences. Since 1991, Mr. Krom has authored numerous renewable energy studies for clients, including the U.S. Department of Energy, Wisconsin Department of Administration, Energy Center of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. He has also coordinated many research and development projects that included potential analysis for biomass and wind energy resources. Mr. Krom has used his expertise in many of Wisconsin’s seminal activities of renewable energy policy and programs in the industrial, agricultural and commercial business sectors. In this capacity, he is a founder of the Wisconsin Distributed Resources Collaborative (www.WisconsinDR.org), the technical lead in writing Wisconsin’s “Interconnection Rules for Distributed Generation – PSC 119” and is the current lead of the “Utility Feed-In Tariff Committee”. He has been a board member of RENEW Wisconsin (www.renewwisconsin.org) since 1993 and served numerous terms as president. In September 2006, Mr. Krom received a USDA - Rural Development “Valued Partner Award” for contributing to the success of the 9006 Renewable Energy/Energy Efficiency Program in Wisconsin.
Charlie Kubert
Charlie Kubert is a Senior Environmental Business Specialist working on the Energy Project, Green Restaurants Initiative and other ELPC eco-business initiatives. He applies his experience in financial analysis and strategic planning to renewable energy financing and other clean energy development issues. Mr. Kubert previously was a management consultant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and KPMG Consulting working primarily in the transportation industry. He serves as the Board Chair of Friends of the Chicago River. M.B.A., University of Chicago, 1985; B.A., Political Science and Environmental Studies, Williams College, 1981.
Karl Lawfer
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Dave Miller
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David Morris, Luncheon Speaker
David Morris is Vice President of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance(ILSR). The author of four books, including Self-Reliant Cities and The Carbohydrate Economy, David has been an advisor to the energy or agricultural agencies of Presidents Ford, Carter, Clinton and George W. Bush. Based in Minneapolis, MN, Washington, D.C. and Portland, Maine and founded in 1974, ILSR works to promote ecologically sound, economically equitable and politically self-determining communities.
Don Nelson
Don Nelson is the Project Finance Director for Bison Renewable Energy (BRE). Don was instrumental in raising capital and assisting in the formation of Bison Renewable Energy LLC in March 2006. BRE was formed for the purpose of developing, owning, and managing Biogas Regional Anaerobic Digesters (BRAD s) in select locations in the United States. Construction commenced for BRE’s first BRAD (“The Cornerstone BRAD, LLC”) near Hull, Iowa in June of 2007. A project completion date of July 2008 is projected. Upon completion biogas will be produced, cleaned and compressed for delivery to Northern Natural gases pipeline.
Don also co-founded and is a managing member of Green Capital, LLC . This South Dakota venture capital firm was formed in 2006 with a primary objective to invest in companies engaged in the renewable fuels industry that offer an attractive return to members.
Don has more than 15 years experience in the agribusiness and commercial finance sector, including financing of large dairies, elevators, row crop farmers, swine producers, trucking companies, and ethanol plants. Don has managed numerous construction projects involving large dairies, hog confinements and commercial businesses. Don has an extensive background working with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) on environmental and finance programs. Prior to joining BRE, Donald was a Vice President for The First National Bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
Rod Nilsestuen
Governor Jim Doyle appointed Rod Nilsestuen to lead the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection in January 2003. Under Nilsestuen’s leadership, state government has tackled tough issues like livestock siting, manure management, land use, renewable energy, and revitalizing the state’s dairy industry. Before joining Governor Doyle’s Cabinet, Nilsestuen served as president and chief executive officer of the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives for 24 years, building it into one of the most respected cooperative trade associations in the nation. Nilsestuen’s leadership is recognized beyond Wisconsin borders. He was recently elected president of a new North Central Bio-Economy Consortium, a 12-state organization designed to help guide the region’s transition to greater use of bio-based fuels and products, and recently served as president of the Midwest Association of State Departments of Agriculture. His observations regarding agriculture have been quoted on ABC’s Nightline; the New York Times and the Washington Post, among others. Nilsestuen, along with six siblings, was reared on the dairy farm near Arcadia where his great grandparents settled in the 1860s. He has a deep love of the land and often quotes from Ben Logan’s book, “The Land Remembers.” Nilsestuen was a student leader at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls where he graduated with a degree in political science in 1970. He went on to earn a law degree from the UW-Madison. He lives in DeForest with his wife, Carole. They have three grown sons.
Mike O’Hare
Michael O’Hare trained at Harvard as an architect and structural engineer. Diverted early on from an honest career designing buildings by the offer of a job in which he could think about anything he wanted to and spend his time with very smart and curious young people, he fell among economists and such like, and continues to benefit from their patience with his demands for continuing on-the-job social science training.
He has followed the process and principles of design into “nonphysical environments” such as production processes in organizations, regulation, and information management and published a variety of research in environmental policy, government policy towards the arts, and management, with special interests in tax policy, facility siting, information and perceptions in public choice and work environments, and policy design. His current research is focused on policy for reducing the global warming effect of vehicle fuels and analytic accounting for risk in environmental policy. He is also a regular writer on pedagogy, especially teaching in professional education, and co-edited the “Curriculum and Case Notes” section of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.
Between faculty appointments at the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, he was director of policy analysis at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs. He teaches occasionally at Università Bocconi in Milan and the National University of Singapore and regularly in the Goldman School’s executive (mid-career) programs.
Andy Olsen
Andy Olsen is a Policy Advocate responsible for field organizing and constituency building for ELPC’s Farm Bill - Clean Energy Development program. Mr. Olsen managed the Governor's Alternative Fuels Task Force and led several collaborative renewable energy efforts in Wisconsin. He has served as a Dane County Supervisor, Dane County Lakes & Watershed Commission member, and as the Board President of RENEW Wisconsin. M.S., Energy Analysis & Policy, University of Wisconsin, 1996; B.A., Economics, Northwestern University, 1983.
Anna Pavlova
Anna is a Policy Liaison with 25x25 Alliance. Anna joined 25x25 in April of 2007 to help advance the alliance's national goal resolutions as well as the policy recommendations outlined in the 25x25 Action Plan. She works with 25x25 partners in pursuit of common objectives, and leads policy discussions for the! Alliance.
Anna's past work experience includes four years as a registered lobbyist with Gordley Associates, where she represented American Soybean Association, US Dry Pea and Lentil Council, and other agriculture trade associations on matters of international trade, energy, and food aid issues with Congress, the WTO and the executive branch. Anna man! aged a biotech working group on traceability and labeling issues, as well as a coalition of trade associations involved in the food aid process. She has participated in various working groups related to the WTO process.
Anna is a graduate of Georgetown University School of Foreign Service where she received a degree in international politics and economics.
Jeff Pieterick
Jeff Pieterick is a co-founder of North Prairie Productions, LLC, and serves as a member of its Board of Directors. Among his responsibilities has been the direction of the public equity drive that secured over $25 million dollars in investment from over 900 Wisconsin residents to fund a 45 million gallon per year biodiesel plant in Evansville, Wisconsin. The equity campaign drew nearly 500 people to its launch last September and was accomplished in 7 months. This sixty plus million dollar project represents the largest venture to date in biodiesel production in Wisconsin. Pieterick is also President of the Wisconsin Biodiesel Association, where his efforts are focused upon promoting the commercial development, production, marketing, distribution, and utilization of biodiesel and other renewable biofuels. He currently resides in Waterloo, WI with his wife Joan and grandson Jordan, both of whom share his passion for renewable biodiesel as an environmentally friendly and home-grown alternative to petroleum.
Gary Radloff, Summit Chair
Gary Radloff is the Director of Policy and Strategic Communications at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP). In this role for DATCP, Radloff oversees all department-wide policy initiatives, communication strategies and homeland security staff. Radloff also serves as staff liaison to the North Central Bioeconomy Consortium (NCBEC), a 12-state partnership of Agriculture departments, University Extension offices and Agriculture Research Stations. Radloff serves on the Steering Committee for the Midwest Agriculture Energy Network (MAEN). Currently, he is also staff to the Agriculture and Forestry Work Group of the Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming. He also assisted with policy planning and development for the Midwest Governor’s Association Energy Summit held in November 2007.
Previously, he served as a policy staff and communication advisor for two major Wisconsin policy projects; Governor Jim Doyle’s Consortium on the Biobased Industry and the Working Lands Initiative. The Governor’s Consortium is a roadmap for positioning Wisconsin to play a key role in promoting the use of renewable energy and growing the state’s bioeconomy. The Working Lands Initiative is a report of detailed policy steps and strategies to protect the source of biomass – the Wisconsin working lands in agriculture and forestry. Radloff has previously served as the legislative liaison for the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services as well as having professional experience as a lobbyist and a journalist.
He currently serves on the Wisconsin Public Service Commission’s Universal Service Fund Council, the Advisory Board of the Children’s Health Alliance of Wisconsin, and the Biomass Working Group policy team for the Great Plains Institute. He has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Public Policy.
Debra Reed
Debbie is the President of DRD Associates, providing strategic and policy support for national environmental, energy and agricultural groups on agricultural mitigation strategies for state and federal global climate change policies. She is an editor and author of a book and multiple reports on the topic. She has particular expertise in the area of agricultural mitigation opportunities as a cost-effective near-term strategy to help reduce U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases. She coordinates and directs the International Biochar Initiative, focused on the research, demonstration, and deployment of biochar production and utilization.
Debbie worked for President Bill Clinton at the White House Council on Environmental Quality as the Director of Legislative Affairs and of Agricultural Policy for the Climate Change Task Force. Prior to that, she was a senior staff for U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE), handling environmental, natural resource/agriculture, and energy issues. In previous positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and at several public health oriented institutions, her work focused on federal agricultural, food safety, and nutrition policy.
Debbie has participated in many of the UN climate change negotiations since Kyoto, Japan in (1997). She has graduate and undergraduate degrees in nutrition, communications, dietetics and chemistry.
In addition to providing the safest, most abundant food and fiber supply in the world, Midwestern agriculture will, in the future, provide clean, renewable energy and multiple environmental services and benefits to society: in particular, high-quality, “charismatic” carbon credits, or soil carbon and other emissions reductions which will help to contain the costs of emissions reductions policies, and have multiple ancillary benefits.
Doug Scott
Doug Scott is the Director of the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Director Scott took over leadership of the nation’s oldest state environmental agency on the 35th anniversary date of the Illinois EPA’s start on July 1, 1970. He is committed to maintaining and enhancing the Agency’s key role in protecting our air, land and water and carrying out Governor Blagojevich’s pledge to make government more accountable and accessible to citizens and the regulated community, including local governments and business.
Among the many new progressive programs started under Governor Blagojevich that Director Scott will continue and expand include the Safe and Healthy Schools Initiative to protect our kids; continued clean air progress through enlisting citizens and industry and negotiating for huge reductions in emissions from the State’s coal-fired power plants, supporting clean coal technology, wind power and other alternative energy and fuel sources; protecting vital public water supplies in Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River; making Illinois the nation’s leader in public notification and community relations activities on environmental concerns; and implementing the Governor’s program to clean up more orphaned open dump sites and ensure that all Illinois landfills are properly operated. Director Scott is now chairing the Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Committee, looking at ways to reduce the impacts of global warming.
Doug Scott believes that being accessible and accountable to citizens and businesses are top priorities. Doug gives much of the credit for his success to the support of his wife Tammy. Since they married in 1985, Tammy has become a community leader in her own right, working as a professional grant writer and serving on numerous non-profit boards.
Peter Taglia
Peter Taglia is the Staff Scientist at Clean Wisconsin, an environmental advocacy organization located in Madison, Wisconsin. Peter is a professional geologist and has a BA in environmental geology from the University of Montana and a MS in hydrogeology from the UW-Madison. Prior to Clean Wisconsin, Peter spent five years working for an environmental consulting firm and is experienced in conducting environmental investigations, preparing environmental remediation plans and developing environmental impact statements at superfund sites, energy facilities and power plants. Peter is currently working in numerous aspects of climate change mitigation, with an emphasis on electrical generation, terrestrial and geological carbon sequestration and biofuels analysis. In May of 2007 Peter was appointed to two working groups of Governor Doyle's Task Force on Global Warming, the electrical generation work group (which he is also co-chair) and the technical advisory group. In October of 2007 Peter was part of a Midwest delegation to tour advanced gasification power plants in Europe, including the Nuon IGCC power plant in the Netherlands that uses 30% biomass with coal for electrical generation.
Randy Udall
Randy Udall, former director of the Community Office for Resource Efficiency (CORE) in western Colorado, is one of the nation’s leading activists in promoting energy sustainability. During Udall’s thirteen year tenure, CORE's partnerships with individuals, governments, and utilities have led to some remarkable accomplishments, including Colorado’s first solar energy incentive program, the world's first Renewable Energy Mitigation Program which has raised $6 million, the world's stiffest carbon tax, and some of the most progressive green power purchasing programs in the country. Udall wrote his first article on climate change in 1987. A solar retrofit of his home in Carbondale, Colorado will keep 300,000 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere during the next 20 years. Udall is also co-founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil-USA, and speaks widely on why "energy is an IQ test Americans tend to fail."
John Vrieze
John Vrieze is the third generation owner of Vrieze Farms, Inc., a Century Farm Award winner in 2007. Baldwin Dairy, Inc. started operations in 1997 and is currently milking 1,050 cows. John is also the co-owner at Emerald Dairy, LLC which was built in 1999 and is milking 1,200 cows. The Transition Management Facility houses 450 dry and fresh cows and springing heifers from the home dairies and is also co-owned by John. The involvement of the University of Minnesota, College of Veterinary Medicine since 2001 has allowed students to train in this facility with the professors on site with access to 2,700 cattle and the history of the herds.
In 2007 a new calf farm was created to house all heifers from birth to 400 pounds. Calf-A-Now houses 500 replacement heifers for the two milking facilities.
John became involved with the agricultural development in Russia in 1990. His interest began with marketing embryos to improve their milking herds and has expanded to owning a minority interest in two dairy operations while consulting on three others.
Dairy Business Association, Inc. was formed in 2000 to develop strategic plans to allow the growth of dairies in Wisconsin. John was the president since the organization began until December, 2007.
Since 2004, John has served on the Board of Directors for Agri-Waste Energy. This company is developing a system to convert bio-gas at Emerald Dairy, LLC into Natural Gas to be injected into a Natural Gas Pipeline in Baldwin, WI.
John also currently serves on the Governor’s Climate Change Task Force.
Sarah White
Sarah L. White (Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Columbia University; B.A. Wellesley College) is a Senior Associate at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS), a national policy center and field laboratory for high-road economic development. Her work at COWS focuses on sustainable workforce strategies, both local and national, including green career pathways in the new energy economy. White came to COWS from Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development, where she served as the Secretary’s policy and budget analyst for federal employment and training programs. Before that, she ran the Development Education Office of Interfaith Hunger Appeal in New York, working to integrate academic and NGO efforts addressing food security, poverty and sustainable development.
Carol Whitman
Carol Whitman is the Senior Legislative Principal in Environmental Policy at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), managing climate change issues and agricultural energy policy. Since starting at NRECA in 2000, she has worked on environmental and energy legislation, climate change proposals, renewable energy including 25x’25, clean coal technology, and the Energy Title of the 2002 Farm Bill. Prior to joining NRECA, Carol spent 15 years at USDA and was USDA’s chief negotiator with the U.S. delegation on the Kyoto Protocol. She also worked as a legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Byron Dorgan. She holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in biological science from UC Davis. Raised in Pennsylvania, she now resides in Maryland.
Judy Ziewacz
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