Green Leaders; On the Move

Jill Hamilton is Founder and President of Sustainable Energy Strategies, Inc. (SESI). She has more than 25 years of consulting experience in the alternative transportation fuels industry. Over the past 20 years, Jill and her team have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for the biofuels industry. She also is a trusted advisor to the National Clean Cities Program. She is Chair of the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalitions.For the past 20 years, she has provided ethanol market development for the Mid-Atlantic region on behalf of the Maryland Grain Producers. She is also a key consultant to the National Biodiesel Board and its Foundation. In addition to her biofuels background, she brings a deep familiarity of government grant writing, project management and project fundraising. Prior to starting SESI, she co-managed Information Resources, Inc. Alternative Fuels Division and ran the National Alternative Fuels Hotline for the Department of Energy.You can find more information about SESI at sesi-online.com/index.html and follow them on X and LinkedIn.

Marjorie Fields Harris is the Assistant Director of External Affairs for the Office of State and Community Energy Programs (SCEP). In this role, she oversees communications, stakeholder engagement, and legislative affairs for SCEP, which works with state and local organizations to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies.In this episode, we discuss funding opportunities and rebates available from the Office of State & Community Energy Programs.Learn more about SCEP at www.energy.gov.

In this episod we are celebrating Black History Month with a discussion on clean fleets and transportation with Korey Neal, Sr, President of K. Neal Truck & Bus Center (KNT&B) and GWRCCC Board of Directors member. KNT&B is a full–service commercial truck and bus dealership representing International, Isuzu, Hino, IC Bus, and Cummins. The dealership operates from six locations throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. K. Neal Truck and Bus is one of two minority owned commercial truck and school bus dealerships in the United States out of over 1,000 dealerships nationwide. They are making Black History every day, and we are proud to work with them!Want to keep up with K. Neal? Go to their website, knealtbc.com or follow them on social media @KNealTBC on Facebook, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.

In this episode, learn about Circuit with Logan McLeod, VP of National Business Development at Circuit.  Circuit's electric, tech-enabled shuttle services provide first/last-mile connections to mass transit, encourage visitors to park once, and get people out of their cars for short trips. Logan currently oversees Circuit’s new business opportunities and existing partnerships nationally. He has over a decade of transportation and logistics service planning experience that span from traditional transportation operations to rideshare/micro mobility partnerships. Logan most recently led the development of the EDU/Higher Ed vertical at Lyft where he helped universities and colleges leverage Lyft rideshare to support late night safe ride programs as well as a variety of other transportation use case needs on a collegiate campus. Also while at Lyft, Logan developed strategic partnerships with other Mobility SaaS platform providers such as Spin to launch the first ever multimodal, one-app SaaS partnership solution on a university campus. He then extended these strategic partnerships beyond higher ed to partners like Walmart and other corporate campuses to solve mobility pain points and address a multitude of transportation needs. Prior that, Logan worked at MV Transportation as a Director of Business Development where he led efforts in the Southeast to support MV winning contracts in fixed-route, commute, demand-response, and paratransit. Logan started his career in transportation in Washington, D.C. where he worked for a non-profit advocacy group as their Director of Resource Development to raise awareness on the benefits of rail passenger transportation and support further legislative/local funding to grow rail service across the country. Logan is obsessed with and passionate about identifying innovative solutions in which a community can optimize and improve the way people move using reliable, and efficient transportation.Keep up with Circuit online at ridecircuit.com and on LinkedIn and Instagram @ride_circuit.

In this episode, host Antoine Thompson is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month and the role that Hispanic and Latino people have played in clean transportation energy with Ruby Stemmly, Founder/CEO, EcoLatinos and Luis MacDonald, President of AutoFlexFleet, Inc.Learn more about EcoLatinos on their website ecolatinos.org and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.Learn more about AutoFlexFleet on their website www.autoflexfleet.com and follow them on LinkedIn and YouTube

Our host Antoine Thompson speaks with Colin Huwyler, CEO of Optimus Technologies, a diesel engine decarbonization company focused on developing engine technology for medium and heavy-duty diesel engines to operate on high biodiesel blends.Colin and Antoine discuss biodiesel use in the DC, Maryland, Virginia region and how biodiesel vehicles can help reduce diesel emissions.Learn more about Optimus Technologies at www.optimustec.com. Follow them on X @optimuspgh, Instagram @optimuspgh, LinkedIn, and Facebook @optimuspghFollow GWRCCC on Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn @GWRCCC and check out the video recording of Green Leaders: on the Move on YouTube.

Hear from host Antoine Thompson and guests Na'ilah Dawkins and Khadijah Shaw as they discuss how we can take the steps to be more environmentally conscious in our everyday lives.Khadijah Shaw is a senior student at Bowie State University and intern for the Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition.Na'ilah Dawkins is a Prince George's County Solid Waste, Resource Management, and Recycling Advisory Commission member, Plastic Pollution Coalition member, Maryland Recycling Network member, and a member of the Prince George's County Sierra Club Executive Committee.

Hear from our host, Antoine Thompson and guest Ronald Bethea as they discuss Justice40 and it’s impact on disadvantaged communities.Ron Bethea is the President and Founder of Positive Change Purchasing Cooperative (PCPC) LLC. PCPC focuses on solar and renewable energy through the HBSLF HBCU Solar Initiative model, a purchasing cooperative, located in the Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington DC metropolitan market area and beyond.You can learn more about Positive Change Purchasing Cooperative here https://positivechangepc.com/Listen to Ronald Bethea's podcast here https://www.blogtalkradio.com/pcpcllcLearn more about GWRCCC on our website: https://gwrccc.org/Follow GWRCCC on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter @GWRCCC