| Presenters are Maxine Paul of Adelante Consulting and Mayane Chavez Barudin of Sovereign Energy, and colleagues.
Maxine Paul and her team consult with local governments to advance climate mitigation initiatives and programs and access federal funding from the Inflation Reduction Act. She formerly developed environment, climate, and energy programs for the Pueblo of Santa Ana. Maxine is the former Chair of the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board, was a member of the New Mexico Recycling and Illegal Dumping board, and the National Tribal Air Association Executive Committee.
Mayane Chavez Barudin is the founder of Soverign Eneregy and a proud Indigenous woman and a Tribal member of Kewa (Santo Domingo) Pueblo in New Mexico. Mayane hopes to enable economic prosperity and environmental justice for her community and Indigenous peoples by advocating for an inclusive clean energy transition. Mayane started Sovereign Energy as a native-led nonprofit organization to help center Tribal energy sovereignty and Indigenous voices within the renewable energy transition to enable energy reparations and sustainability for Indigenous peoples. |
