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Follow along as we introduce GRID staff members whose work and influences are driving our vision of a just energy future. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meet Arthur Bart-Williams, Executive Director of GRID Bay Area.<\/strong> Arthur joined GRID in 2020, during the pandemic, with an over 20-year career that includes construction management, program\/project management, product management, and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>How did you come to GRID?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine sent me a link and said \u201cHey, this sounds like you.\u201d I had been doing the serial entrepreneur thing for a long, long time and after spending the better part of a year and a half commuting to and from New Orleans, my wife forced me to slow down. I realized how burned out I was and I thought, maybe it\u2019s time to see what\u2019s next. It took a while for me to get used to the idea of getting a regular job. Then I got this job description and what stood out to me was they were looking for someone who was entrepreneurial, and I thought I wonder how serious they are about that. I have a background in civil engineering and project management and entrepreneurship, but the only solar background was what we had installed on our roof.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What is your favorite part of what you do at GRID?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Similar to what I enjoyed as an entrepreneur, day to day you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re going to be doing. You\u2019re not stuck in a box. In this role, it\u2019s like managing six or seven companies in one. Getting a handle on all of that has been a great challenge. The variety of the different goals, tasks, businesses and people, and underlying all of that is the team aspect of it.<\/p>\n<p>I came on in this unusual time, all I\u2019ve known is people on the screen. But I know the impact that we have, and the way I expand and sustain that impact is through our team. How can I get out of the way and actually help in what they\u2019re trying to do, from visioning to being a thought partner, to being a provocateur, to being an advocate? And just bringing all the experiences that I\u2019ve collected over my career to bear.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Who is a current Black history-maker that people should know about, or has influenced your work?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I attended the Facing Race conference last year, and the keynote speaker was Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. He\u2019s a great speaker and orator. His keynote speech was centered around the third reconstruction and it was a very memorable talk for me because I\u2019m a huge fan of context. Context is decisive, when the context is clear everything makes way more sense and it can shift things just like that (snaps). He started talking about the third reconstruction, and going back to the history of the first and second reconstructions and how with each of those there was progress made and then almost immediately a backlash to that. And then he framed what\u2019s going on now as another period of reconstruction and guess what, expect a backlash, in fact we\u2019re in it. He talked about what it\u2019s going to take to not repeat history and go backwards, creating a moral and multiracial coalition &#8212; it all just connected the dots for me. It was a great history lesson, it was inspiring and it ended up being a call to action.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What\u2019s one thing GRID is working on now that you\u2019re really excited to see happen this year?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about getting the message out about GRID. I\u2019m still new enough to ask the question, how come more people don\u2019t know about us? We\u2019ve had two new staff members within the last month or so who\u2019ve come in and asked the same question. There are obviously lots of ways to do that, but one way I\u2019m excited about is through this capital campaign that started out as a question and a wild idea. Part of what makes me excited about it is the timing. This is not a new story for GRID, but I think at this moment in time, there\u2019s a window. We can say, hey look, this is already happening, we just need to do more of it and we can solve all these problems that you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What is your vision for an environmentally just future?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The word that keeps coming up for me is sustainability. Sustainability not just for the planet, but all the way down. At the community level, so that the communities we serve are benefiting in all the ways possible, economically, righting wrongs of inequity. 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