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Detailed Agenda
FRIDAY « FEBRUARY 19, 2016
Kerene Tayloe
WE ACT
Kerene Tayloe is currently the federal policy associate for WE ACT for
Environmental Justice. In this role, she helps advance the federal agenda
of WE ACT and the Environmental Justice Leadership Forum on Climate
Change through lobbying members of Congress and working with the
EPA and other federal agencies. She is graduate of Florida A&M University
College of Law. While in law school, she founded the Environmental Law
Society, petitioned for more environmental law courses, and worked to
institute FAMU’s first environmental justice symposium. She was also
selected as a diversity fellow with the American Bar Association Section
on Environment, Energy, and Resources. Most recently, she worked as an election rights fellow
with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, training over 100 attorneys and law
students on state and federal election law and advocating for all citizens' right to vote.
J.R. Tolbert
Advanced Energy Economy
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
FIELD TRIP TO NATIONAL WIND TECHNOLOGY CENTER
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J.R. Tolbert is senior director of state policy for Advanced Energy
Economy (AEE). In this role, Tolbert oversees AEE’s state-level energy
efficiency work and coordinates policy with nine of AEE’s state partner
groups. Tolbert has worked on energy policy for 10 years for a variety
of nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining AEE, Tolbert served as the
executive director of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators,
a nonpartisan organization of state legislators committed to finding
solutions to climate and energy issues. Tolbert graduated from Auburn
University with a B.A. in political science in 2001, and is a 2008 graduate
of Green Corps, the field school for environmental organizing. He currently serves on the advisory
boards of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators and the State Innovation Exchange.
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