Shelly Gordon-Gray has a 40+-year volunteer career, from fundraising for NGOs to serving as a volunteer mediator to tutoring young students in reading. She has run her own medical marketing and PR firm for 20+ years, was named one of Silicon Valley’s Women of Influence, served on the Human Relations Commission for the city of Palo Alto, CA as well as the Commission on the Status of Women for Monterey County.
Shelly also served on the executive committee of the largest California chapter of the Sierra Club, which successfully advocated for Community Choice Energy in Silicon Valley and the West Bay Area. Shelly started Arizonans for Community Choice to dramatically increase renewable energy AZ through Community Choice Energy.
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Have you ever asked yourself why you have no choice in how the energy you pay for is generated? On a hot summer day in Phoenix, do you think about electricity racing through wires to cool your home? Have you ever wondered why you don’t have any choice about where, or how, the energy you pay for is generated... and why climate change persists?
Learn more about how vertically integrated monopoly utilities operate in Arizona, contrasted with a new energy equity model called Community Choice Energy that gives local customers choice over their energy mix, and increases renewable energy, lowers carbon emissions, and lowers rates, but without changing the way that energy is delivered to their homes or businesses.
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