President, Development, Beacon Communities Development LLC, Boston, MA

Mr. Cohen manages new development projects for Beacon Communities Development, a for-profit developer of multifamily affordable housing.  Before starting in his current position, Josh worked in several different aspects of the real estate field, including construction, architectural history, and historic preservation.  Josh holds a B.A. in ethics, politics, and economics from Yale University.

Founder, Hewitt Sustainability Strategies, LLC

Kari is the founder of Hewitt Sustainability Strategies, LLC. She has 15 years of experience working in the sustainability field across public, private, institutional, and non-profit sectors. For more than a decade, she has worked as a consultant leading climate action, sustainability, and resiliency plans for communities, airports, transportation agencies, and other entities. She has facilitated public and stakeholder engagement workshops and technical meetings throughout the country and has experience integrating of sustainability and resiliency into building and infrastructure design. Kari has been an ENV SP, Envision Verifier, and Trainer since 2013 and served on ISI’s Envision Review Board from 2015-2019. She holds an M.A. in Urban & Environmental Policy & Planning from Tufts University, where she is also an adjunct instructor, and a B.A. in Sociology from Smith College.

Director/Land Use Administrator, Devens Enterprise Commission, Devens, MA

Mr. Lowitt is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners, immediate past-president of the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Planning Association, past-chairman of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities, and proud to be on the New Ecology Board of Directors. At Devens, Mr. Lowitt focuses on the sustainable redevelopment of this 4400-acre former army base. Devens is regarded as the premier eco-industrial park in the United States. Prior to coming to Devens, Mr. Lowitt served as Director of Planning and Economic Development for the Town of Londonderry, New Hampshire (1993-1999) where he developed the Londonderry Ecological Industrial Park and the award-winning Sustainable Londonderry Program. Mr. Lowitt has a B.A. in history from Brown University and a M.A. in Community Economic Development from the Urban Environmental Policy Graduate Program at Tufts University.

Chief Executive Officer, Capital Link

Rebecca Regan is the CEO of Capital Link/Capital Fund (CDFI), two affiliated organizations that provide capital planning and financial and operational support to community health centers across the country. Ms. Regan has 30 years of experience working in community development finance to drive social sector change, with a background in management, strategy, leadership, finance and capital raising. For nearly 10 years Ms. Regan served as Executive Vice President of the Housing Partnership Network in Boston, a national non-profit membership organization of multifamily affordable housing organizations, CDFIs and housing counseling agencies, and prior to that served in executive roles at BlueHub Capital, its affiliate Solar Energy Advantage and as President of the Loan Fund. Over her expansive career focused on community development, she has raised over $400M in debt, equity, and grants for non-profit housing developers, CDFIs and social enterprises. Ms. Regan spent the first 15 years of her career working in large financial institutions in commercial real estate and community development lending.

 She is on the board of Boston Impact, a nonprofit focused on investing in opportunity for those most oppressed or abandoned by our current economic system. Ms. Regan became passionate about working against inequality while working at the Appalachia Service Project in her youth, where she was inspired to make her life’s work about bringing opportunities to those who are disadvantaged.

Ms. Regan holds a BS from the Boston University School of Management and an MBA from Babson College.

Associate General Counsel – Vicinity Energy, Boston, MA

Lindsey Sands is Associate General Counsel at Vicinity Energy. Prior to Vicinity Energy, Lindsey worked as the Assistant General Counsel at Veolia North America, a leading operator and developer of environmental solutions in the areas of energy, water and wastewater, providing legal support to Veolia’s Eastern US operations, its Federal contracts initiative, and its special corporate projects, such as mergers and acquisitions. She began her legal practice in the tax group at Sidley Austin in Chicago. Just prior to joining Veolia, Lindsey’s practice focused on tax credit syndication and renewable energy projects as an associate in the Boston office of Holland & Knight LLP. Lindsey was recently appointed as Legal Director of the Women’s Energy Network Boston Chapter. She also is a founding partner of Veolia’s Women’s Affinity Group, through which she advocates for the recruitment, retention and promotion of her female colleagues at Veolia. Lindsey is a graduate of Boston College Law School and received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

Chief Executive Officer, New Ecology, Inc.

Kim joined New Ecology in 2024, and serves as the Chief Executive Officer, leading and supporting all areas of the organization. Building on the organization’s great legacy of greening communities and improving lives, she works alongside New Ecology’s dedicated team, partners, and supporters to amplify our impact and reach more communities. Prior to joining New Ecology, Kim served as the Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives at Inclusive Prosperity Capital, where she led partnerships to fund and deploy decarbonization, clean energy, and resiliency solutions in underserved markets. She has worked for years to bring groundbreaking multifamily financing solutions developed in CT to national markets. Through her work, Kim hopes to create opportunity and wealth and healthier, more resilient, equitable communities where all can thrive, especially the most vulnerable among us.

Chair in Sustainable Development and Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Development, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

William is the President and CEO of the Presidio Graduate School, where he is also the Richard M. Gray Fellow in Sustainability Practice. William has led several organizations at the forefront of the sustainability field, including the nation’s premier environmental justice law center, Alternatives for Community & Environment, which he cofounded as an Echoing Green Fellow in 1993, and the pioneering green development research and consulting organization New Ecology, Inc. From 1999-2008, William was on the faculty of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. He has also taught at Boston College Law School, the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. William is the author of the award-winning book, The Land That Could Be: Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century, and A Republic of Trees: Field Notes on People, Place, and the Planet. David Brower described him as “an environmental visionary creating solutions to today’s problems with a passion that would make John Muir and Martin Luther King equally proud.”

William received his BA in history and classics from Brown University and a JD and MA in history from the University of Virginia. He also completed doctoral studies as a Regents Fellow at the University of California Berkeley and graduated from the Executive Program in Business Strategies for Environmental Sustainability at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. William was a law clerk for U.S. District Court Chief Judge Franklin S. Billings, Jr.