Gavin Bowman Email & Phone Number

Wilmette, IL, US

• Collaborates closely with BEI team members and partners to foster the development and execution of projects and strategies aimed at promoting equitable building electrification in BEI's partner cities. Projects.
• Leads in organizing and facilitating regular calls with City staff to offer coaching and support in alignment with the strategic objectives of both the City and BEI.
• Strengthens and maintains relationships with partner organizations to enhance BEI's organizational impact. Represents BEI at conferences, meetings, and public venues, as well as nurtures relationships on behalf of the.
• Contributes to knowledge dissemination and effective communication among BEI cities and stakeholders. Develops reports, educational resources, webinars, newsletters, and presentations to ensure the successful sharing.

US

• Manages Chicago's flagship voluntary building retrofit program (Retrofit Chicago), reducing the emissions of over 100 energy-intense facilities. Gavin also secured $10 million to pivot Retrofit Chicago to community.
• Oversees Chicago's benchmarking ordinance strategy and enforcement. As part of this work, Gavin manages contracted staff to implement the document collection, data analysis, reporting, and fining mechanism for over.
• Develops building decarbonization policy alongside a working group of over 50 organizations, creating a framework for a building performance standard.
• Leads the community organizing, strategy development, and project management of Chicago's industrial decarbonization strategy. Working with ComEd, Peoples Gas, and the EPA Region 5 staff to offer energy saving.
• Coordinates a low-income housing climate resiliency strategy for Chicago's Department of Housing alongside Bloomberg Associates.
• Designed and secured $188 million in climate investments for the City of Chicago, equitably illuminating the needs of the City's environmental advocacy network. The investments represent the single largest down-payment.

Springfield, Illinois, US

• Implemented clean energy policies, including policy, legal, coordination, leadership and/or outreach expertise.
• Partnered with clean energy stakeholders with an emphasis on grassroots supporters on policy solutions.
• Analyzed state legislation and communicating potential impacts to IEC member organizations, with a special focus on impacts to low-income and environmental justice communities.
• Tracked agency rulemakings and draft comments on behalf of the environmental community.
• Oversaw IECEF’s work as part of the Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition, including other staff working on the project. Contributed to policy development of the Clean and Equitable Jobs Act, which passed in 2021.
• Provided legislative guidance for advocacy organizations and lawmakers.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Initiated and supported the National Environmental Policy Act environmental review process for major housing developments across the City of Chicago.
• Spearheaded a land disposition program, which will generate significant revenue for reinvestment in new and ongoing development projects.
• Initiated the Strategic Housing Resiliency Plan for the Chicago Housing Authority, highlighting methods and metrics for achieving environmental and social resiliency.
• Created asset maps for Rockwell Gardens, LeClaire, Wicker Park, and Park Boulevard housing development sites.

Washington, DC, US

• Engaged in a six-month progressive training program that equips Fellows with the tools to run for public office, become an entrepreneur, and/or galvanize activist movements.
• Helped fund-raise $25,000 for the Chicago chapter of NLC.
• Assisted in organizing end-of-year event commemorating the 2019 fellowship class, attracting over 150 supporters.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Initiated a comprehensive strategic resiliency plan for the Chicago Housing Authority, focusing on building equitable outcomes for residents facing economic, social, and environmental stresses and shocks.
• Worked on the data interpretation and idea selection team for Chicago United for Equity's "Vote Equity 2019" campaign. This project involves crowd-sourcing racial equity policy ideas from Chicago residents and asking.

• Led a team of 20 district researchers, conducting critical research to promote progressive politics in Illinois' 10th District (Rep. Brad Schneider).
• Researched and collected relevant news to disseminate to constituents.
• Managed all social media accounts for the Swing Left IL-10 team.
• Canvassed in IL-06 for the Sean Casten for Congress campaign.

• Created a tsunami risk analysis for the coastal town of Mikhmoret.
• Identified vulnerable populations, tsunami inundation potential, infrastructure quality, and regional land use.
• Formulated an evacuation plan utilizing ArcGIS' Network Analyst to safely evacuate the population within 30 minutes of a tsunami event.

• Executed the initial research phase for Chicago’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative, promoting environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
• Maximized a socioeconomically equitable distribution of free-floating car-sharing spaces throughout the City.
• Co-authored a pop-up restaurant application toolkit to help business improvement districts attract temporary tenants and ease their transition into vacant retail space.
• Proposed a policy concept for crowdfunded capital improvement projects to executive staff.

• Performed site specific research in Upstate New York to determine demographics, market mobility and draw, population retention rates, and other market analyses.
• Developed a sustainable neighborhood plan in the town of Lansing, NY, including full market analysis, architectural designs (building and landscaping), construction engineering, and construction material management.

Chicago, IL, US

• Performed market analysis research to create a database of potential target properties. The project involved COSTAR as well as OMs to establish an accurate data foundation.
• Drew various base-maps, sub-market maps, and micro-market maps that correspond to Origin Capital Partner's target markets around the country.
• Redesigned market specific investment memoranda, drawing from demographic trends, infrastructure and property development rates, and property absorption rates.

Chicago, IL, US

• Studied rent, sales, and occupancy in order to determine whether the outdoor mall expansions were accretive or dilutive to overall mall productivity. The conclusions compared the pre-existing mall structures to the.
• Compiled books for every office (containing aerial plans, lease plans, mall fact sheets, and demographics).
• Worked practice deals with the leasing representatives.
• Performed a Retail Merchandising Unit installation in Glendale Galleria in Los Angelas, CA.

Glencoe, IL, US

Managed staff and facility operations.

Glencoe, IL, US

Performed lifeguarding, beach services, and secretary duties at Glencoe Beach.

Master Of City Planning, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, City/Urban, Community And Regional Planning

High School