CC-P® Summit - Speakers & Moderators

Allison Acevedo, CC-P — Director, Office of Environmental Justice, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Leo Asuncion — President, American Planning Association (Commissioner, Hawaii Public Utilities Commission)

Alicia Betancourt, CC-P — IFAS Monroe County Extension Director, University of Florida

Astrid Caldas, CC-P — Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

Adriane Casalotti — Chief of Government and Public Affairs, National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)

Mary Kate Cunningham, CAE — Senior Vice President, Public Policy, ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership

Gavin Dillingham, CC-P — Director, Clean Energy Policy, Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC)

Abe Eshkenazi — Chief Executive Officer, Association of Supply Chain Management

Barbara Gottlieb — Director, Environment & Health, Physicians for Social Responsibility

Kevin Haley — Senior Director, Membership & Philanthropy, Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance

Adriana Hochberg, CC-P — Acting Director, Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection

Wendy Howard, CC-P — Executive Director, One Montgomery Green

Olivier Lazar — Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Project Management Institute

Cris Liban — Chair, Sustainability Committee, American Society of Civil Engineers (Executive Director, Environment, LA Metro Transit Authority)

Kimberly Long, CC-P — Environmental Performance Improvement Manager, Exelon Corporation

Patrick McDonnell — Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Montse Montaner — Chief Sustainability Officer, Novartis

Chris Morrill — Chief Executive Officer, Government Finance Officers Association

Frank Niepold — Senior Climate Education Program Manager, NOAA

Annina Northridge, CC-P — Climate Policy Planner, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

Martin Powell — Head of Sustainability & Environmental Initiatives Americas, Siemens Financial Services

Rachael Sherman — Executive Director, Global Sustainability, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

Jacob Smith — Executive Director, Colorado Communities for Climate Action (CC4CA)

Russell Strickland — Chair, Resilience Committee, National Emergency Managers Association (Executive Director, Maryland Emergency Management Agency)

Constance Thompson — Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs, American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE)

Hilari Varnadore — Vice President for Cities, U.S. Green Building Council

Trigg Talley — Director, Office of Global Change, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Scott Tew — VP, Sustainability & Managing Director, Center for Energy Efficiency & Sustainability, Trane Technologies

Seema Wadhwa — Executive Director, Environmental Stewardship, Kaiser Permanente

Nick Xenos — Executive Director, Centre for Greening Government, Treasury Board Secretariat, Government of Canada

Advocacy Track:

• Gavin Dillingham, CC-P — Program Director, Clean Energy, HARC

• Amy Rapp, CC-P — Principal, Climate Resilience Solutions, LLC

• Emily Soontornsaratool, CC-P — Chief, Sustainability, Office of Energy & Sustainability, Maryland Department of General Services

Calls to Action Track:

• Martin Powell — Head of Sustainability & Environmental Initiatives Americas, Siemens

• Dick White, CC-P — Principal Author, CC-P Study Guide, ACCO (former Mayor of Durango, Colorado)

Equity & Inclusion Track:

• Astrid Caldas, CC-P — Senior Climate Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists

• Rachelle Sanderson, CC-P — Regional Watershed Coordinator, Capital Region Planning Commission

• Veola Green — Executive Managing Director and Principal, The International Institute of Family Development, Inc.

• Wendy Howard, CC-P — Executive Director, One Montgomery Green

Value Track:

• Alicia Betancourt, CC-P — Director, IFAS, Monroe County Extension, University of Florida

• Kimberly Long, CC-P — Environmental Performance Improvement Manager, Corporate Strategy, Innovation & Sustainability, Exelon Corporation

• Muhammad Tak, CC-P — Associate, Hazen and Sawyer