Nila’s Newsletter
Next Energy Leaders elevating the role of common knowledge through research-based innovation. We explore, develop and enhance social enterprise and equity models for a green, inclusive economy.
About the Author
Nila’s on a mission to promote research collaborations and engage the community worldwide addressing national and global challenges to expand the classification of common knowledge. She studies the intersection of business and equitable, sustainable development to build more comprehensive social enterprise models for a green, inclusive economy.
Over five years ago, she began mobilizing teams and activating community engagement projects to benefit communities of color. Today, she focuses on mobilizing renewable technology and making job training accessible to communities of concern by supporting policy advancement, program development, and execution for justice-involved youth, people of color, and underrepresented women.
At GRID Alternatives, she ignited a partnership for a $2.9M California Energy Commission EPIC grant, a three-year project advancing innovative solar and regraded battery technology systems that served three nonprofits to save over $250k on expenses yearly. Featured on Local 4 News: In 2019, she ran the only regional Solar Job fair in SoCal mobilizing over 150 attendees and achieved 17 on-site hires into the clean energy careers.
In the midst of the pandemic, to facilitate the transition online, she initiated a partnership with human-I-T to provide FREE laptops and wifi to trainees across Greater Los Angeles enrolled in the workforce program. As a result, in 2020, she led the team to run the largest solar training program South of the 10 freeway and 3x training opportunities to deploy 200 more Angelenos into the renewable energy workforce.
Now, she’s supporting Biden’s global climate strategy through USAID, Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI), Clean Air Catalyst program investigating short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs) in low-moderate income countries (LMICs) to advance global climate ambitions and facilitate a just transition to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
She is humbled to be a part of a movement to challenge obstacles in communities of resilience serving social, environmental, and economic justice.
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