Shakoor serves as Chair of the Co-op Power Regional Network Board.ĭiego Angarita Horowitz - Diego is a long time supporter of renewable energy and social justice. He is committed to building the broadest possible movement for energy democracy and for a sustainable future. As the coordinator for the NYC CEC he is supporting the development of more than 2 megawatts of community solar in NYC to benefit people in limited resource communities. As a founder of Co-op Power and the NYC Community Energy Co-op he has been one of the primary drivers, building Co-op Power's commitment to multi-class, multi-race organizing. He has focused on cooperative economics, community business development, community organizing, leadership development, organizational development and youth development. Shakoor Aljuwani - Shakoor Aljuwani has almost fifty years of experience in organizing, leadership development, and community development with a particular focus in this work as applied to limited resource communities.
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