Lifting all boats
Any new job has its learning curve. But when Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, the recently-appointed CEO of green job advocacy organization Green For All, started her new gig, she stepped into a flurry of activity as government, business and other groups compete for billions of stimulus dollars and sort out in-the-works legislation.
Any new job has its learning curve. But when Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, the recently-appointed CEO of green job advocacy organization Green For All, started her new gig, she stepped into a flurry of activity as government, business and other groups compete for billions of stimulus dollars and sort out in-the-works legislation.
Plus, she had some pretty big shoes to fill: Ellis-Lamkins was handed the Green For All baton by the organization’s founder Van Jones, who was tapped as the Obama administration’s green jobs advisor in March.
Before joining Green For All, Ellis-Lamkins led the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council and Silicon Valley-based labor advocacy nonprofit, Working Partnerships USA. In addition to pushing for living wage policies and heath care access, through Working Partnerships, Ellis-Lamkins worked to include green jobs in worker training programs.
