Good Energy Collective joins Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy

On July 8th, 2022 Good Energy Collective became the 75th organization to join the Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy network. As a Gender Champion, Co-Founder and Executive Director Jessica Lovering will uphold the Panel Parity Pledge, and implement three SMARTIE commitments:

  • Ensure that events Good Energy Collective hosts or co-hosts feature at least 50% women panelists/speakers and at least 30% people of color. Additionally, to the best of our ability, ensure that invitations made to in-person events that Good Energy Collective organizes match the demographics of the region where the event takes place.
  • Create, publish, and enforce a code of conduct and a policy on respectful behavior for meetings we host that emphasizes mutual respect, encourages thoughtful listening, and facilitates participants’ ability to bring their whole selves to the conversation.
  • Ensure that early-career experts employed with Good Energy Collective, including women and people of color, are single authors on at least one product or publication per year.

Good Energy Collective is a policy research organization. They’re building the progressive case for nuclear energy as an essential part of the broader climate change agenda and working to align the clean energy space with environmental justice and sustainability goals.

 

You can find Good Energy Collective on twitter @GoodEnergyColl.

Assessing the Gendered Impacts of COVID-19

In the first quarter of 2021, Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy (GCNP) set out to assess how the COVID-19 pandemic had effected the nuclear policy community. Drawing on a growing body of economic and social science literature, a survey was conducted specifically seeking to determine whether the pandemic’s impacts had exacerbated existing gender inequity in the community.

 

GCNP COVID-19 Survey Briefing

Gender Champions Statement on the Killing of George Floyd

A safer world can’t exist without justice. Like many of you, we spent this weekend horrified by the police violence in response to protests of George Floyd’s murder and their calls for ending racist practices targeting African American communities.

While the work that we do together seeks to make gender equality a working reality in our community, the values behind GCNP – respect, fairness, valuing diverse perspectives – hold a deeper meaning. We stand firmly against discrimination, inequity, xenophobia, bigotry, and racism in any form. Our values are in direct opposition to any systemic or systematic oppression that debases the personhood of our fellow human beings.

Working together as allies in our efforts to create equity in an inequitable world, we will continue to strive toward a goal of realizing these values. It is up to each of us, as individuals and as a collective, to instill our work and our daily lives with these values, motivated by the conviction that doing so is just, democratic and essential to building a peaceful and secure future.

Black Lives Matter.

Laura, Michelle, and Jack