Allison Silverman

New York, NY – Allison is currently the vice president of the SC Group, a nonprofit philanthropic collective responsible for environmental, immigration, civic engagement, and other social and economic justice issues. Previously, she worked in government as a solar ombudsman for New York, where she led project-based change strategies to advance equitable access to solar energy and to encourage urban resiliency. She practiced international environmental law at the Center for International Environmental Law, where she advocated a rights-based approach to international climate change policies that safeguard communities and ecosystems. She has been working on climate and energy justice issues her entire career, including implementing a solar rural electrification and sustainable development project in Panama as a Fulbright Scholar, and coordinating a campaign with the Natural Resources Defense Council to promote energy alternatives to an ill-conceived massive hydroelectric scheme in Chile.