Southern Energy Network Staff
The Southern Energy Network is comprised of one AMAZING Executive Director, 5 full-time state campus/youth organizers, several part-time interns whom work on specific projects and with state-wide networks, a steering committee comprised of students from throughout the southeast, and thousands of on the grown campus and communitiy activists working to bring clean, just energy solutions to climate change. Staff operate in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Liz Veazey, Executive Director
Liz graduated with highest honors from the University of North Carolina in 2004 with a Bachelors of Science degree in Environmental Science. While at UNC, Liz led one of the first successful campus renewable energy campaigns in the southeast and won the Morris K. Udall scholarship for future leaders in environmental fields in both 2002 and 2003. She organized the first outheast Student Renewable Energy Conference (SSREC) April 2-4, 2004, to engage other southern schools beyond UNC in energy and global warming work. In the summer of 2004 she became a co-founding member of Energy Action Coalition, which she has been actively involved with since then. She is now co-chairing the Energy Action Coalition Steering Committee. She has been an integral leader and organizer in the development of the Southern Energy Network, which is now a project of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy and is a member of the Energy Action Coalition. In late fall 2005, she attended the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal where she was involved in the youth actions and organizing and helped start the youth climate and energy blog: www.itsgettinghotinhere.org. She loves to ride her bike and is trying learn to play the banjo.
contact: liz[at]climateaction.net or 865.637.6055 x17
JP Plumlee, Tennessee Campus Organizer
Jon Paul works as the Tennessee Valley Campus Program Coordinator. He collaborates with students across the Tennessee Valley to support campus based initiatives focusing on energy efficiency/conservation, clean energy production and purchasing, biofuels development and energy education. Jon Paul received a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of TN in 2005, where he worked closely with students, faculty, staff and administration to support clean energy. He sees the campus setting as ideal for technological innovation, and believes campuses have the ability to create the paradigm shift needed to ensure widespread sustainability for future generations.
Jon Paul was born and raised in Memphis, TN, where he now works with students and the public to bring renewables to our largest city in the state of Tennessee. He currently plays in the local Knoxville band Llama Train, and works to support sustainability with various musicians and artists.
contact: jp[at]cleanenergy.org or 865.637.6055 x16
Christine Irvine, Tennessee Campus Organizer
Christine spent her sophomore year at Elon University running a successful Campus Climate Challenge campaign, which secured a commitment from the Board of Trustees for the University to become carbon neutral in thirty years. She spent the following summer with the Energy Action Coaliton in Washington, DC as the New Media Fellow organizing for Power Shift 2007. By the fall, she’d decided to leave school and dedicate herself to the movement full time. She worked with Janie in North Carolina to establish the North Carolina Student Climate Coalition and moved back up to DC for some time before Power Shift to coordinate multimedia production for the conference. She's a recent transplant from North Carolina to Nashville, TN where she joins SEN to organize for change.
Christine feels privileged and honored to be working with the staff of SEN. She knows that we have big challenges ahead, but she looks forward to helping build youth power across the state for clean, safe, and just solutions to dirty energy and climate chaos.
contact: christine[at]cleanenergy.org or 704.813.3361
Janie Hauser, North Carolina Campus Organizer
Janie is a 2007 graduate of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where she studied Biology and Environmental Studies. She began student organizing in college as a member of the Renewable Energy Special Projects Committee--the group of students that oversaw UNC's green fee fund. Janie was also part of the team of students who organized the first North Carolina Climate Challenge Summit and an active leader in the Campus Y--the center for social justice and activism at UNC.
In the summer of 2007, Janie drove out to Iowa to work with the Sierra Student Coalition on the March to ReEnergize Iowa where she gained lots of organizing experience and developed a commitment to the youth climate movement. She enjoyed being in the exciting early primary state and eating lots of Iowa sweet corn, but she is very glad to be back in North Carolina working with students in her home state. When she isn't working, Janie is usually cheering her Tar Heels on to victory, drinking coffee, playing outside, or cooking delicious meals with her great roommates.
contact: janie[at]climateaction.net or 336.403.1648
Jason Misner, Florida Campus Organizer
Jason’s strongest belief is that students, as the future leaders of
the world, have the ability to take charge and begin much needed
structural changes within the realm of Energy Policy in the United
States. Jason came on staff in August 2006 as the Florida
Campus Coordinator. In this role he hopes to bring Florida to the
forefront of the clean energy movement by changing campus and state
policy and working to connect private businesses with clean energy
solutions.
Jason graduated with his B.S.
degree in Social Sciences with minors in Political Science, Psychology
and Anthropology and a focus in Communications at University of Central
Florida. As an undergrad Jason has dedicated his professional life to
maintaining freedoms and perusing truths through work with student
groups, programs and projects at UCF and in the City of Orlando.
contact: jason[at]climateaction.net or 727.743.3582
Seth Gunning, Georgia/South Carolina Campus Organizer
Born in Richmond, Va, Grown in Omaha, Nebraska, Living in/around Atlanta, Ga; Seth's heart is in Bristol, Va. He attended Valdosta State University and majored in anthropology and psychology. Between several trips to Central America where he studied traditional mayan cosmologies as cultural resistances to western imperialism, he helped re-start an environmental organization at VSU which was jostled into action by SEN's 3rd annual SSREC in Knoxville, Tn. He then joined the Southern Energy Network Steering Committee and now works to build youth power and is lucky and humbled to be the Georgia/South Carolina Campus Organizer.
contact: seth[at]climateaction.net or 404.434.9745
