Michelle Jones

Michelle Jones has been affiliated with Soulardarity for several years and currently holds the position of Community Engagement Specialist. Throughout her tenure, she has been committed to assisting members of her community, particularly those within BIPOC communities who consistently encounter energy burdens and energy poverty challenges. With a specialization in advocating for energy and climate justice, while concurrently striving toward a sustainable, reliable, and clean energy future, Ms. Jones emphasizes facilitating community engagement and connecting individuals to resources that mitigate the challenges posed by investor-owned energy monopolies. She endeavors to educate communities on effective methods of making their voices heard, informs legislators on the implications of their decisions on their constituents, and collaborates with coalition partners to further promote energy justice.

Michelle’s degree in Sociology and experience at Soulardarity has helped develop her strengths to facilitate training workshops for community organizers, participate in community town halls, and present before state legislators. Representing Soulardarity in areas of energy justice is her main focus, but it is the fight to see community resilience with affordable, community-owned solar energy that generates community-wealth, while reducing the damage to our environment that gets her up in the morning. Her degree in Counseling informs how she sees the mental and emotional effects of energy injustice in the lives of those that are hit the hardest.

When Michelle is not at Soulardarity, she is an avid traveler and loves spending time with her 7 children and 20 grandchildren.