Date: October 15, 2:00pm-3:30pm ET
Title: Deserts to Oases: Strategic Expansion of EV Charging Accessibility
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Description:
As electric vehicles (EVs) are seen as a healthier form of transportation for opportunity communities, ensuring widespread, equitable access to charging infrastructure is paramount.
Join us for an engaging webinar exploring EV charging accessibility and innovative strategies to transform charging deserts into vibrant charging oases. Attendees will hear from industry experts, community organizers, and thought leaders about challenges and barriers; successful initiatives in underserved communities around the globe; the role of technology, policy, and collaboration; and opportunities for stakeholders to contribute to the development of inclusive and equitable charging networks. The webinar will conclude with an interactive discussion on the next steps for social science research to accelerate equitable expansion of EV charging.
Speakers:
- Speaker 1: Sumner Pomeroy, Clean Transportation Program Manager, Clean Cities Georgia & Southface Institute
- Speaker 2: Erin Andrews-Sharer, Project Lead, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)
- Speaker 3: Chuck Barlow, Sr. President & CEO, HSAAT
- Moderator: Pamela Fann, Founder & CEO, Integrated Solutions
Sumner Pomeroy, Clean Transportation Program Manager, Clean Cities Georgia & Southface Institute
Sumner Pomeroy serves as program manager for Southface’s sustainable communities and transportation team and works with nonprofit Clean Cities Georgia, hosted at Southface, to advance clean transportation solutions throughout the state. She serves as a connector for grant opportunities, provides education related to electric vehicles and other alternative fuels, and strives toward equitable outcomes that promote clean air for all. Sumner is a native of Atlanta and has a master’s degree in environmental planning and design from the University of Georgia.
Erin Andrews-Sharer, Project Lead, National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL)
Erin Andrews-Sharer is a project lead at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), working primarily in transportation planning, fleet support, and infrastructure deployment. With previous experience in community development and neighborhood revitalization for a nonprofit, and a master’s degree in in urban and regional planning from the University of Colorado-Denver, she brings community focused-expertise to projects at NREL. Her current portfolio includes work with Clean Cities and Communities, through an energy and environmental justice initiative; research on the EV charging station permitting process; and regulatory support for state and utility fleet alternative vehicle acquisition requirements.
Chuck Barlow, Sr. President & CEO, Henderson School Alumni Association Trust (HSAAT)
As a community organizer, Chuck Barlow is the co-founder, CEO, and board chair of Henderson School Alumni Association Trust (HSAAT) in Jackson, Georgia. The community-based organization is comprised of former Black students who purchased their old high school from the city to revitalize it for the community’s benefit. Henderson High School, a chronically underfunded school with inadequate physical structure and programs was desegregated in 1970, and was abandoned for many years before its purchase by HSAAT.
Chuck and HSAAT have been diligently working with local, state, and federal agencies and partners to revitalize the school by utilizing grants and funding to restore the building so that it can support community services, workforce training, and innovative technologies to increase the livelihood of the town’s residents.
Over the last 8 years, Chuck has demonstrated his experience as a visionary servant leadership & life coach, management consultant, master facilitator/trainer, and community developer to assist HSAAT in securing and developing partnerships to support the communities’ goals for their building and the city.
Chuck is a former general manager at Xerox Business Services for 18 years and a former region general manager for En Pointe Technologies Services for 14 years. He founded QMTS (Quality Management Transformation Solutions) in 1991 and for 33 years provided management consulting, high performance team development, and customer focused teamwork training.
Pamela Fann, Founder & CEO, Integrated Solutions
Pam, an award-winning diversity specialist, is the founder and CEO of Integrated Solutions, an energy services company that focuses on energy efficiency project implementation, workforce development, and civic engagement.
Pam has a degree in marketing and a Human Resource Management certification, and is a Certified Cultural Diversity Professional and Trainer (CDP, CDT). She also holds a certification in Understanding Diversity and Inclusion from Purdue University.
Pam served on a diversity board for more than 7 years with The Coca-Cola Company and currently serves as the diversity advisor for the BECC conference and on the boards and advisory boards for Association of Energy Services Professionals, Georgia Tech SCoRE, Forth Mobility, E Source Equity Board, Greenlink Analytics, Four Corners Group, Women of EVs, Diversity Executive Leadership Academy, and Strategic Energy Innovations. She is a lead author for the Energy Equity Project, serves as an SME for Drawdown Georgia, RCE Atlanta Advancing Justice for All, and Community of Practice committees, and serves as a JEDI Advisor for the Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Labs.