Colin is the Co-Director for Bay Localize co-leading organizational management and development, and managing programs of the Local Clean Energy Alliance. In 2013, he coordinated the Alliance’s fourth annual Clean Power, Healthy Communities Conference. Colin graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a BA in Urban Studies and a self-designed concentration in Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty and the Environment. After graduating, Colin taught for several years multiple-subject English Language Development at Coliseum College Prep Academy in East Oakland. After teaching, Colin worked with the Greenlining Institute, Urban Habitat, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the Oakland Climate Action Coalition to advance racial, environmental, economic, and climate justice. In addition to being an activist and organizer, Colin is also a musician, capoeirista, and educator. He has lived in Brazil for four years, and speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese.

Al Weinrub is Coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA), the Bay Area’s largest clean energy coalition. The LCEA, which hosts an annual Clean Power, Healthy Communities conference, sees the development of local energy resources as key to growing sustainable business, advancing social equity, and promoting community resilience. Al authored the highly-acclaimed report Community Power: Decentralized Renewable Energy in California and has conducted energy policy briefings for many organizations and national conferences. Al also serves on the Steering Committee of the Oakland Climate Action Coalition and is a member of the Sierra Club California Energy-Climate Committee. He is a former national officer and member the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981, AFL-CIO. Al lives in Oakland.