California

isaac sevier

NEWHAB Director for a Just Transition

About

isaac works with NEWHAB to support the network’s members’ collective learning and action towards a Just Transition. He joined NEWHAB in 2020 after supporting the California coalition of Energy Efficiency for All for three years as a policy advocate and its coalition manager, elevating the topics of housing, energy affordability, and building electrification.

With experiences including policy advocacy, finance, engineering, and coalition development - and as a renter and first-generation American and college graduate - isaac brings a diverse range of perspectives to his work in NEWHAB. Originally from Oklahoma, isaac holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Tulsa and a master’s degree from Stanford. He is based in San Francisco.

Experience

Coalition building Energy assistance Energy burden Energy efficiency Energy equity Energy policy Environmental Justice Program design Program implementation Racial equity Resident benefits Tenants

Other knowledge

Fossil fuel development, Building electrification,

I want to solve:

Climate change cannot be successfully addressed without simultaneously addressing runaway income, wealth, and health inequality. It’s going to be hard and require organizing collective action to transform multiple systems concurrently to reduce inequality and greenhouse gas emissions.

Within NEWHAB, I want to support other members to develop their community-based process and strategies, build collective action with others across the network to follow the lead of frontline groups, and support the growth of just and equitable solutions at a national scale.

I want to collaborate with:

I’m on staff to be in service to all of NEWHAB’s members. As a network, we have adopted an Equity Manifesto, and I am always excited to join arms with members who need support for their questions, ideas, and needs when they are aligned with that lofty credo.

Fun Fact

My hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma, lays claim to being “the center of the universe” which physicists and skeptics alike agree is not possible!

Recommended Resources

Equitable Building Electrification: A Framework for Powering Resilient Communities

Report

Advancing a Green New Deal for Los Angeles Renters

Report

NEWHAB Equity Manifesto

Guide