“Native Americans and Renewable Energy” Program Speakers

Meet our May 23rd “Native Americans and Renewable Energy” program speakers!

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Dawn Davis

Dr. Dawn Davis holds a PhD from the University of Idaho and is a post-doctoral researcher in the Energy Systems Department at Idaho National Laboratory. She is presently researching water and power resilience and their impacts on marginalized and rural communities. Twice a recipient of National Science Foundation grants she has done groundbreaking research on the use of Peyote as a sentinel species and work in the Natural and Water Resources space around law, management, and policy in Idaho and across the Nation. She is a citizen of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and is the author of numerous publications.

Read some of her work here: https://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol16/v16issue2/707-a16-2-10/file

Jacqui Hoover

Jacqui is the Executive Director and COO of the Hawaii Island Economic Development Board. She is of Native Hawaiian and Navajo Nation ancestry and is familiar with how renewable energy projects impact Native peoples in the US.

AJ Perkins

A Kamehameha School and University of Hawaii graduate. He is an author and successful entrepreneur. He is the Director of Strategy and Development at Tech Flow, one of California’s leading microgrid integrator companies. He is also the executive director of the Native & Indigenous Coalition for Clean Earth.