Tenley Dalstrom Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington DC

Served as the Director of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement at BCS, LLC embedded at the U.S. Department of Energy as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Renewable Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Led coordination between offices, agencies, and with communities nationwide for the implementation of multiple.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Contractor, serving as Senior Advisor for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy supporting the implementation of the Renewable Energy provisions of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law related to Solar, Geothermal, Wind, and Water. Serving on the Energy Equity and Environmental Justice Tiger Team, the Justice 40 and Stakeholder Engagement.

Oakland, CA

• Served as the Director of the CalTestBed Program and Power Connector for U.S. DOE/NREL American Made Challenges. These programs fund, accelerate, and grow diverse clean energy entrepreneurs to drive innovation and.
• Designed and launched the CalTestBed program; a public/private partnership that recently secured an $11M full cost extension to provide clean energy startups vouchers of up to $300,000 to access prototype testing at.
• Held national symposia featuring the CalTestBed voucher recipients, testing facilities, and leading tech transfer and commercialization experts.
• Designed the CalTestBed Solicitation; manage the review and recommendation process with nationally recognized SMEs; executed facility matching, consultations, and development of statements of work between the labs and.
• Coordinated legal counsel from the California Energy Commission, the UC Office of the President and LBNL to develop a standardized agreement structure that allows entrepreneurs to maintain their IP, mitigates conflicts.
• American Made Challenges - utilizing a Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion lens conducted outreach, coach applicants, provide pitch feedback, facilitate training, and make catalytic connections.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Provided consulting services in project management, communications, strategic planning, workshop design and facilitation, stakeholder engagement, change management, research and analysis, monitoring and evaluation. Subject matter expertise includes energy policy and technology deployment, diversity, equity and inclusion, environmental management, and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Directed all aspects of the national Solar Ready Vets Program; established relationships with implementation teams at 10 military bases and community colleges; developed partnerships with >300 solar companies; managed.
• Increased program size and reach by 100%; built national network across multiple platforms.
• Baselined metrics, managed monitoring, financial oversight, federal reporting, contracts, strategic planning, and communications.
• Improved job conversion rate by 20% for the >500 graduates in under 6 months.
• Represented The Solar Foundation on the Solar Energy Industry Association’s Women’s Empowerment Committee, and supported the design and launch of the 2017 Solar Industry Diversity Study.
• Invited to deliver keynote address at 2017 OSEIA Annual Conference Diversity Breakfast.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Designed and launched the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Program; established partnerships with MIT and Stanford University to host annual symposium; recruited senior executives for elite Ambassadors.
• Received recognition from U.S. Secretary of Energy for contributing to the launch and support of the ARRA-Funded Smart Grid Investment Grants Program (SGIG). SGIG consisted of 99 projects across the nation intended to.
• Executed U.S. DOE R&D peer reviews; drafted reports providing funding and management recommendations for programs including Superconductivity, Smart Grid, and Transmission Reliability.
• Developed methodology for Global Environmental Facility to integrate climate change adaptation considerations into criteria for all future grant proposals, affecting billions of dollars of investments.

• Senior Assistant for Global Support Program
• Supported nine staff in three departments, coordinating contracts, presentations, reports, travel, event planning and accounting.
• Organized and coordinated logistics for WWF’s Global Ecoregion Workshop in Antalya, Turkey, 7-11 February, 2005, with over 100 attendees from around the world.

• Supervised six facilitators of environmental issues working groups for the European Postgraduate Program in Environmental Management (EPCEM), coordinated working groups, lectured and tutored.
• Conducted research and wrote portions of a chapter for inclusion in a European Union report on sustainable production and consumption in the textile industry.

• Assessed and evaluated the success of the Environmental Human Rights Campaign, formulated recommendations and an implementation strategy.
• Researched and wrote a status report on the NGO preparatory process for the United Nations Economic Committee for Europe (UNECE) Ministerial conference in Geneva.
• Wrote grant proposals, edited documents and reports.

Bratislava, Slovakia

• Consulted at two non-profits to establish, grow and strengthen their organizations and activities addressing local, regional, and international environmental issues. Taught two classes a semester at Comenius.
• Managed international, interdisciplinary projects that included drafting feasibility studies and policy recommendations for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and.
• Collaborated with offices in 7 countries to conduct research and develop an integrated river basin management plan for the Danube which informed revised water regulations in the region.
• Conducted policy research and drafted report to the EU Commission evaluating Slovakia’s compliance with the DGXI directives and eligibility for EU accession.
• Represented REC at monthly USAID grantee meetings.
• Organized and managed international environmental conferences, including collaborating with IUCN on the organization of the COP 5 on Biodiversity.Slovak Society for Sustainable Living

Mem, Environmental Management

Activities and Societies: Varsity Crew - rowed 4's and 8'sParticipated in exchange program at L'Ecole Des Mines, Paris, France

Mppa, Public Policy And Administration

Activities and Societies: volunteered teaching at Whittier Elementary School, volunteered building houses with Heart of Camden, worked as.

Bs, Journalism And Environmental Sciences

Activities and Societies: UF Crew Team - Rowed Varsity Lightweight 4's and 8's, wrote for the local paper, the Alligator, was the lead.