Leadership

CEWD Board of Directors

Melanie Berman
CEWD Chair
CHRO and EVP of Administration
NiSource

Mark Lindgren
Immediate Past Chair
Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications and Chief Human Resources Officer, Ameren Services

Sloane Drake
Vice Chair
SVP and CHRO
Southern Company

Daniella Piper
CEWD Vice Chair, Career Awareness
EVP and Chief Innovation Officer
New York Power Authority

Deb Sinta
CEWD Vice Chair, Civic Engagement
SVP, Talent, Culture & People
Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Tracey Steiner
CEWD Vice Chair, Education
Chief Engagement & Consumer Officer, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative

Adja Ba
Vice President,
Chief Human Resources and Diversity Officer, EPRI

Amy Benbarka
Vice President, Talent Operations
American Gas Association

Scott Briggs
Chief Administrative Officer
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company

Ashley Brooks

Ashley Brooks
Director of Workforce Development 
Hydropower Foundation

James Chesnut
Senior Vice President, Nuclear Operations
Day & Zimmermann

Kelly Darnell

Kathryn Collins
Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer
Entergy

Kelly Darnell

Kelly Darnell
Chief Operating Officer
Amercian Clean Power Association

Regina Elbert
SVP and Chief Legal and Human Resources Officer
Dominion Energy

Jeff Esplin
Senior Vice President, Operations
Quanta Services

Trevor Falk

Trevor Falk
Special Assistant to the President for US Energy Policy
NABTU

Mike Fernandez
SVP – Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability
Enbridge

Morgan Hopkins
Vice President, Human Resources
TVA

Erin Hultman
VP Member & Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer
Nuclear Energy Institute

Renée Lani
General Counsel
American Public Gas Association

Amy Rigney-Gay 
Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Administration 
American Public Power Association 

Michele Rinn
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association

Hebe Shaw
Executive Director
The INGAA Foundation

Kate Stengle
Vice President, Human Resources
NextEra

Drew Stover
Director, Utility Department
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Rayfield Stringer III
VP Human Resources, Nuclear 
Constellation

Jen Szaro
President and CEO
AESP

Kristine Telford
Vice President, State Engagement
Edison Electric Institute 

Allison K. Weinberg
Senior Manager
American Petroleum Institute

CEWD Officers

Lori Brady
CEWD Deputy Director
Director, Human Resources
Nuclear Energy Institute

Victoria Calderon
CEWD General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Associate General Counsel, Compliance and Corporate Affairs
Edison Electric Institute

Holly Greaves
Chief Administrative Officer
Edison Electric Institute

Missy Henriksen
CEWD Executive Director

Elizabeth Thompson
CEWD Interim Treasurer
Managing Director, Accounting and Finance
Edison Electric Institute

Workforce Development Executive Council

Gretchen Campbell
NextEra
WDEC Co-Chair
Kathryn Martin
Duke Energy
WDEC Co-Chair
Sumesh Arora
Entergy
Amy Benbarka
American Gas Association
Sandra Bleckman
New York Power Authority
Ilana Bowen
Constellation
Alexandria (Alex) Chasson-Colebourn
Eversource
Jaimee Conley
Ameren
Jamie Choate
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dana Davis
North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives
Tracy DiSanto
Copeland
Desiree Dunham
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
Ignacio Estella
Avangrid
Heather Feldman
Electric Power Research Institute
Nicole Fondren
Spire
Chris Harris
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
James Hettel
Arizona Public Service
Chris HooSang
DTE Energy
Missy Henriksen
Center for Energy Workforce Development
Joseph Lillyblad
Southern Company
Jennifer Lopp
American Electric Power
Rebecca Lynch
Consolidated Edison
Abby Miller
Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Foundation
Heather Ramsey
Framatome
Mary Sizemore
Quanta Services
Latoya Smith
Dominion Energy
Erin Travassos
Eversource
Monica West
Washington Gas and Light
Esther Wildermuth
Xcel Energy