BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Stanford Energy Seminar | Powershift: Supporting Tribal Energy Sovereignty at the California Energy Commission | Kelsey Freeman\, Califo rnia Energy Commission X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260609T152744Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52366910859818 DTSTART:20260511T233000Z DTEND:20260512T002000Z DESCRIPTION:The Stanford Energy Seminar has been a mainstay of energy engag ement at Stanford for nearly 20 years and is one of the flagship programs of the Precourt Institute for Energy. We aim to bring a wide variety of pe rspectives to the Stanford community – academics\, entrepreneurs\, utili ties\, non-profits\, and more. \n\n \n\nAbout the talk\n\nTribal Nations a cross California and the U.S. are increasingly asserting leadership in cle an energy development—pursuing projects that advance energy resiliency\, economic opportunity\, and tribal sovereignty. Since many Tribes face und uly high energy costs\, long outages and have long borne the brunt of foss il fuel extraction\, such projects can have an outsized impact. In a dual role at the California Energy Commission (CEC) and Stanford’s Precourt I nstitute for Energy\, Kelsey Freeman has been helping launch a landmark st ate policymaking effort to ensure that California Native American Tribes c an benefit from the clean energy transition. Freeman will discuss how Trib es are leading the way to harness clean energy for the benefit of their pe ople amidst legal\, policy and practical challenges—and how the CEC is w orking to support.\n\nKelsey Freeman is an award-winning writer\, policy r esearcher\, and advocate focused on rural community development\, Indigeno us rights\, migration and climate change.\n\nShe is currently a Social Sci ence Research Scholar at Stanford University's Precourt Energy Institute\, where her work focuses on supporting Native American tribes in their clea n energy goals. Through this role\, she is also seconded to the Tribal Aff airs program at the California Energy Commission (CEC)\, where she is help ing launch a landmark policy-making process in collaboration with Californ ia tribes to ensure they can participate in and benefit from the clean ene rgy transition.\n\nKelsey draws on 10 years focused on tribal sovereignty and has a strong track record of building programming to support tribes. S he previously worked at Central Oregon Community College\, where she colla borated with tribes across Oregon to start a college-readiness program for Native American high school students. She also facilitated workshops on e quity\, advised the college’s Dreamers’ Club\, and served on the City of Bend Accessibility Advisory Committee.\n\nHer debut book No Option but North (IG Publishing) was published in 2020 and is based on her year on a Fulbright Fellowship in Mexico interviewing Central American migrants. It interweaves their stories with research into the policies that reveal the fundamental tensions involved in contemporary migration. It won the 2021 C olorado Book Award in creative nonfiction and was a finalist for the Orego n Book Award. It also received acclaim in Publisher’s Weekly\, The New Y ork Journal of Books\, Choice Reviews of the Association of College and Re search Libraries\, and many others. She has since spoken and interviewed a cross the U.S. on immigration policy. Kelsey has written for Stanford Inte rnational Policy Review\, UCLA’s Journal of Law and Environmental Policy \, The Mantle\, Complex(ion) Magazine\, and is the recipient of a Steinber g Reporting Award.\n\nFrom 2022-2025\, Kelsey was a Knight Hennessy Schola r at Stanford studying international policy and environment and resources. During this time\, she worked with Nevada’s green bank to help develop their tribal clean energy program\, conducted research on international cl imate displacement and organized a course and conference on climate migrat ion. She is the author of the report "Understanding Federal Indian Law for Renewable Energy\," published by Stanford Law School.\n\nKelsey holds an MA in international policy and an MS in environment and resources from Sta nford University and a BA in government and legal studies from Bowdoin Col lege.\n\n \n\nAnyone with an interest in energy is welcome to join! 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GEO:37.428953;-122.172839 LOCATION:Hewlett Teaching Center\, 201 SUMMARY:Stanford Energy Seminar | Powershift: Supporting Tribal Energy Sove reignty at the California Energy Commission | Kelsey Freeman\, California Energy Commission URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford-energy-seminar-kel sey-freeman-cec CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR