Belfrey, Utuma

A state-licensed journeyman electrician, Belfrey is outreach coordinator for GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit that provides free solar panel installations for lowincome homeowners. Belfrey was first introduced to solar panel Installations as a Local #6 electrician's apprentice. Her passion for social, economic and environmental justice motivated her to pursue a career in renewable energy. She is a member of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's Citizens Advisory Committee to the Hunter's Point Shipyard, a consultant to the Port of Oakland's Social Justice Committee as a Construction Job Retention Specialist and recently formed her own company, Sustainable Futures Consulting Services, to further advance disadvantaged communities socially, economically and environmentally. Clean Technologies Driving the Green Economy What is clean tech and how does it fit in with ecological and sustainable principles? From biofuels to utility development based on nature’s own systems, clean technologies and the engines that fund them are diverse and far-reaching. Learn about innovative green technologies from local visionaries whose work is changing the face of technology as we know it around the world.