Lavinia Steinfort is a political geographer, ecofeminist and researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI). At TNI she is working on systemic alternatives such as (re)municipalisation of public services and just transitions towards energy democracy. Lavinia facilitates the international Energy Democracy allianceand is co-implementing the mPOWER project. She co-authored The Future is Public, Public Finance for the Future We Want, One Treaty to rule them all and Communal Performativity – A Seed for Change.

Dr. Daniel Chavez is a social anthropologist and political economist focusing on public policy, energy and climate. He coordinates the New Politics Lab of the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute (TNI). He holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Crystal Huang is the National Coordinator of the Energy Democracy Project — a collaboration of close to 40 geographically and racially diverse affiliated frontline organizations working to democratize the U.S. energy sector. She is a grassroots community-builder and a 2020 Roddenberry Fellow with more than 10 years of experience deploying climate solution technologies. For her work building popular education on energy and power, she serves on the Resilience Hubs Advisory Council for “Toward Resilient California Communities” Initiative.

Rowan Mataram is of British-Indonesian heritage and based in the North of the UK. Her activism journey has led her to a strong intersectional, decolonial analysis which is at the core of her work.Mataram currently works to increase capacity for, and representation in, the energy transition at Platform London. Here she manages the pan-European project, mPOWER, and is currently starting to develop a process for citizen-led, energy just transition plans in Leeds, West Yorkshire as part of Climate Action Leeds.

Lala Peñaranda is a socialist and feminist activist born in Colombia, working on labor and climate as the Latin America coordinator for the Trade Unions for Energy Democracy (TUED). She is a member of Science for the People and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).