Shiva Patel
Board Member
Shiva Patel is an environmental and economic justice advocate, strategist, ecosystem builder, capital steward and capital advisor. He has launched and supported the development of alternative ownership enterprises, financial institutions, community-based organizations and public agencies, focused on climate justice, energy democracy, the solidarity economy and non-extractive finance. He is the Managing Director at the Justice Climate Fund and was previously a Senior Fellow at The Solutions Project and Full Spectrum Capital Partners. Shiva was the Founder of the Energy Solidarity Cooperative, a multi-stakeholder cooperative focused on renewable energy in underserved communities. He served on the Board of Directors for Planting Justice, Rooted in Resilience and the Oakland Climate Action Coalition and was nominated to the founding Community Advisory Committee of East Bay Community Energy. Shiva has supported the racial and economic justice organizing and advocacy work of the Energy Democracy Project, Southeast Climate & Energy Network, Tennessee Valley Energy Democracy Movement and the Rural Power Coalition. He is a history and heterodox economics enthusiast who enjoys music, cooking, futbol and the outdoors. He has a BS in Environmental Economics and Policy, BA in Interdisciplinary Studies: Energy and Food Sovereignty, and MBA from UC Berkeley. He was born into a South Asian immigrant family in London, England and currently lives in Washington, DC.