Spokespeople

To request appearances or interviews please contact Brianna

email: brianna [at] energyaction.net
phone: (415) 305 1943

Jessy Tolkan, Executive Director of Energy Action Coalition

Jessy Tolkan serves as the Executive Director for the Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of 50 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Energy Action Coalition leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses, high schools, and in local communities to build models of the clean energy future. Under her leadership the Energy Action Coalition is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by advocating for green jobs, stopping new coal plants, and making young people's voices heard in the policy debate around global climate change. Jessy has spent most of her career working to build power amongst the millenial generation. In 2004, as state director for the New Voters Project, Tolkan helped to register more than 130,000 young voters and produce one of the highest youth turnout rates in the country. She's been featured in Time Magazine, Hard Ball with Chris Matthews, and Vanity Fair Magazine. Jessy helped to plan the largest youth gathering on global warming in our nation's history - POWER SHIFT 2007, a conference that brought together more than 6000 youth representing all 50 states, and culminated with the largest single lobby day on capitol hill focused on global warming. Most recently, Jessy spearheaded POWER VOTE, a campaign to mobilize 1,000,000 young voters are climate and energy issues in more than 30 states across the country.

Prior to her work at the Energy Action Coalition, Tolkan worked with leading advocacy and grassroots organizations including: United States Student Association, Young Democrats of America, and Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. Tolkan received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Political Science and African America-Studies. In 2006, Tolkan was named one of the REAL HOT 100 Women in America, for her work with young voters.

Watch Jessy on MSNBC's Hardball w/ Chris Matthews

Energy Action Coalition Partner Spokespeople

Erica Williams in DC
Policy and Advocacy Manager, Campus Progress (Energy Action Coalition partner organization)

Before joining Campus Progress, Erica served as a field associate at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights where she worked with some of Washington’s most powerful players in progressive politics, implementing and coordinating strategies to galvanize grassroots support & activity in over 45 states for effective civil and human rights legislation at the federal level. Erica has coordinated grassroots campaigns around judicial nominations, affirmative action, and the successful reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. Her work has also been divided amongst various other social justice projects including the campaign to secure voting representation for the District of Columbia and pursuing effective federal hate crimes legislation. Erica is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park with B.A. in African American Studies and Public Policy.

Erica Williams on Fox and Friends:

Kim Teplitzky, Sierra Student Coalition, (in Pittsburgh, PA)
Kim is the National Field Coordinator for the Sierra Student Coalition, the nation’s largest student environmental organization and the national youth chapter of the Sierra Club. Prior to her national role, she was a Regional Organizer helping students fight for sustainable campuses and against the coal industry in Pa., Ohio, Mich. And W.Va. As a student, she led a wind power campaign on her campus and was a founding member of the Energy Action Coalition, where she helped organize youth for national and international actions supporting clean energy and climate justice.

Kandi Mosset, North Dakota
Kandi Mossett was born and raised in North Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations. She graduated from the University of North Dakota’s Earth Systems Science and Policy Program in December of 2006 and now holds a Masters of Environmental Management. She began working for the Indigenous Environmental Network as the Tribal Campus Climate Challenge (TCCC) Organizer in February of 2007. Since then over 30 tribal colleges have been engaged in the TCCC and have worked on projects ranging from light bulb swaps and community tree plantings to small-scale community solar panel installations and community gardens. Within the TCCC campaign the goals are to introduce and support initiatives within tribal colleges for students to: Pursue renewable energy alternatives such as solar and wind power; Reduce their carbon footprint and global warming pollution; Connect students to environmental justice and climate justice issues in their communities; Promote collaboration between students and communities, and to do all of this in line with Indigenous traditional knowledge and belief systems.

Kari Fulton in DC
Kari works with Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative and works primarily with historically black colleges and universities. She is a 2008 Brower Youth Award recipient and has been a key organizer of Power Shift 2009.

Student Spokespeople

Marcie Smith, - Kentucky
A central Kentucky native, is a senior at Transylvania University studying International Affairs, French, and Environmental Studies. As a sophomore, Marcie founded Transylvania's environmental action group TERRA, a constituent member of the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition (KSEC). She has interned for Congress, studied ecology and conservation in Madagascar, worked as a researcher for the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague, Netherlands, and most recently served as a U.S. Youth Delegate to the UN Climate Change Convention, Conference of Parties in Poznan, Poland with the U.S. NGO, SustainUS.

Dominique Hazzard- from PG County, now in MA
Dominique is a first year at Wellesley College, where she and fellow students are currently running a sustainable endowment campaign. Additionally, she sits on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Student Coalition, the nation's largest student grassroots environmental organization. Dominique became involved with environmental issues at the age of 15 after attending one of the SSC's summer training programs. She went on to co-found a group at her high school in Prince George's County, Maryland, whose Focus the Nation event was featured in the Washington Post for bringing wide-spread attention to the issue of global warming among high school students and their communities.

Holly Jones, Iowa
Holly is a junior at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she is working towards a double major in History and Environmental Studies. She has been a member of the Sierra Student Coalition for the past two years having organized the March to ReEnergize Iowa as a part of the ReEnergizeUS campaign and served as a member and chair of the Media Sub-Committee. She is currently working to make her campus and community more environmentally sustainable, serving as the Chair of the Conservation Committee, acting as a spring 2009 Power Shift Fellow, and Co-Director of Illinois Sprog 2009. Holly hopes to use her knowledge gained as a youth organizer in an environmental law career to further the path for a sustainable future for us all.

Katherine McEachern, Cornell University, 21-years-old
Katherine started organizing for environmental and climate victories in high school and has since led successful campaigns at the local, regional and national levels. Most recently, she helped lead Power Vote at Cornell, a massive campaign to turn young people out to vote in record numbers and demand a clean energy future. Their effort was one of the largest in country, engaging thousands of young and first-time voters. Before that, she led a successful campaign resulting in a commitment from the Cornell to reduce its global warming pollution to zero, gaining national recognition for their efforts. She was also a key leader of the March to Re-Energize New Hampshire, a summer-long campaign to elevate the issue of global warming in New Hampshire during theâ€¨presidential primaries. She is currently Co-Chair of the Sierra Student Coalition's Conservation Committee helping lead the national organization's campaign efforts for a clean, just energy future.

Adriana Gonzalez, University High School


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Under her leadership the Energy Action Coalition is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by advocating for green jobs, stopping new coal plants, and making young people's voices heard in the policy debate around global climate change. Jessy has spent most of her career working to build power amongst the millenial generation. In 2004, as state director for the New Voters Project, Tolkan helped to register more than 130,000 young voters and produce one of the highest youth turnout rates in the country. She's been featured in Time Magazine, Hard Ball with Chris Matthews, and Vanity Fair Magazine. Jessy helped to plan the largest youth gathering on global warming in our nation's history - POWER SHIFT 2007, a conference that brought together more than 6000 youth representing all 50 states, and culminated with the largest single lobby day on capitol hill focused on global warming. Most recently, Jessy spearheaded POWER VOTE, a campaign to mobilize 1,000,000 young voters are climate and energy issues in more than 30 states across the country. Prior to her work at the Energy Action Coalition, Tolkan worked with leading advocacy and grassroots organizations including: United States Student Association, Young Democrats of America, and Grassroots Campaigns, Inc. Tolkan received a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Political Science and African America-Studies. In 2006, Tolkan was named one of the REAL HOT 100 Women in America, for her work with young voters. Watch Jessy on MSNBC's Hardball w/ Chris Matthews Energy Action Coalition Partner Spokespeople Erica Williams in DC Policy and Advocacy Manager, Campus Progress (Energy Action Coalition partner organization) Before joining Campus Progress, Erica served as a field associate at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights where she worked with some of Washington’s most powerful players in progressive politics, implementing and coordinating strategies to galvanize grassroots support & activity in over 45 states for effective civil and human rights legislation at the federal level. Erica has coordinated grassroots campaigns around judicial nominations, affirmative action, and the successful reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act. Her work has also been divided amongst various other social justice projects including the campaign to secure voting representation for the District of Columbia and pursuing effective federal hate crimes legislation. Erica is a native Washingtonian and a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park with B.A. in African American Studies and Public Policy. Erica Williams on Fox and Friends: Kim Teplitzky, Sierra Student Coalition, (in Pittsburgh, PA) Kim is the National Field Coordinator for the Sierra Student Coalition, the nation’s largest student environmental organization and the national youth chapter of the Sierra Club. Prior to her national role, she was a Regional Organizer helping students fight for sustainable campuses and against the coal industry in Pa., Ohio, Mich. And W.Va. As a student, she led a wind power campaign on her campus and was a founding member of the Energy Action Coalition, where she helped organize youth for national and international actions supporting clean energy and climate justice. Kandi Mosset, North Dakota Kandi Mossett was born and raised in North Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations. She graduated from the University of North Dakota’s Earth Systems Science and Policy Program in December of 2006 and now holds a Masters of Environmental Management. She began working for the Indigenous Environmental Network as the Tribal Campus Climate Challenge (TCCC) Organizer in February of 2007. Since then over 30 tribal colleges have been engaged in the TCCC and have worked on projects ranging from light bulb swaps and community tree plantings to small-scale community solar panel installations and community gardens. Within the TCCC campaign the goals are to introduce and support initiatives within tribal colleges for students to: Pursue renewable energy alternatives such as solar and wind power; Reduce their carbon footprint and global warming pollution; Connect students to environmental justice and climate justice issues in their communities; Promote collaboration between students and communities, and to do all of this in line with Indigenous traditional knowledge and belief systems. Kari Fulton in DC Kari works with Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative and works primarily with historically black colleges and universities. She is a 2008 Brower Youth Award recipient and has been a key organizer of Power Shift 2009. Student Spokespeople Marcie Smith, - Kentucky A central Kentucky native, is a senior at Transylvania University studying International Affairs, French, and Environmental Studies. As a sophomore, Marcie founded Transylvania's environmental action group TERRA, a constituent member of the Kentucky Student Environmental Coalition (KSEC). She has interned for Congress, studied ecology and conservation in Madagascar, worked as a researcher for the Institute for Environmental Security in The Hague, Netherlands, and most recently served as a U.S. Youth Delegate to the UN Climate Change Convention, Conference of Parties in Poznan, Poland with the U.S. NGO, SustainUS. Dominique Hazzard- from PG County, now in MA Dominique is a first year at Wellesley College, where she and fellow students are currently running a sustainable endowment campaign. Additionally, she sits on the Executive Committee of the Sierra Student Coalition, the nation's largest student grassroots environmental organization. Dominique became involved with environmental issues at the age of 15 after attending one of the SSC's summer training programs. She went on to co-found a group at her high school in Prince George's County, Maryland, whose Focus the Nation event was featured in the Washington Post for bringing wide-spread attention to the issue of global warming among high school students and their communities. Holly Jones, Iowa Holly is a junior at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she is working towards a double major in History and Environmental Studies. She has been a member of the Sierra Student Coalition for the past two years having organized the March to ReEnergize Iowa as a part of the ReEnergizeUS campaign and served as a member and chair of the Media Sub-Committee. She is currently working to make her campus and community more environmentally sustainable, serving as the Chair of the Conservation Committee, acting as a spring 2009 Power Shift Fellow, and Co-Director of Illinois Sprog 2009. Holly hopes to use her knowledge gained as a youth organizer in an environmental law career to further the path for a sustainable future for us all. Katherine McEachern, Cornell University, 21-years-old Katherine started organizing for environmental and climate victories in high school and has since led successful campaigns at the local, regional and national levels. Most recently, she helped lead Power Vote at Cornell, a massive campaign to turn young people out to vote in record numbers and demand a clean energy future. Their effort was one of the largest in country, engaging thousands of young and first-time voters. Before that, she led a successful campaign resulting in a commitment from the Cornell to reduce its global warming pollution to zero, gaining national recognition for their efforts. She was also a key leader of the March to Re-Energize New Hampshire, a summer-long campaign to elevate the issue of global warming in New Hampshire during theâ€¨presidential primaries. She is currently Co-Chair of the Sierra Student Coalition's Conservation Committee helping lead the national organization's campaign efforts for a clean, just energy future. Adriana Gonzalez, University High School
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