Co-Hosted with Muwekma-Tah-Ruk and Otero Public Service House

Pilar Thomas, a Stanford alumni with four decades of experience in tribal energy policy and public interest advocacy, will be returning to campus to participate in a joint theme house dinner event hosted with Explore Energy House, the Native American theme house Muwekma-Tah-Ruk, and Otero Public Service House. This is an opportunity to see the high stakes challenges and opportunities from the vantage points of sovereign tribes.

Pilar is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, and she currently serves as a Board Member for the Western Resource Advocates, a Partner at Quarles and Brady LLP, an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University, and a Professor of Practice at University of Arizona. Throughout her many roles, she has provided strategic legal advice to Indian tribes, tribal utilities, tribal housing authorities and tribal enterprises on tribal energy policy and planning, renewable energy project development and finance, and federal and state energy regulatory, programs and policy efforts. Pilar has had roles at the Department of Energy as Deputy Director of the Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs, at the Department of the Interior as Deputy Solicitor – Indian Affairs, in Washington D.C., and as a Board Member to both The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law and GRID Alternatives

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