She focuses her practice on mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, project development, and tax equity financings in the renewable energy industry. She, her husband, and their sons live in New York City, and enjoy swimming and fishing off Long Island’s unspoiled ocean beaches.īecky Diffen is a partner based in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin office. She holds a BA and an MS from Columbia University. Julia worked as an independent renewable energy consultant for one year before joining Equinor’s Empire Wind project team. These efforts lead to her appointment by President Obama to serve at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as Director of the Office of External Affairs, where she worked to a gain the political and public support necessary to break down the regulatory barriers preventing renewables, energy efficiency, and demand response from fair access to electric markets.Īfter Superstorm Sandy exposed the need to reform the electric grid on Long Island, Julia was appointed the first-ever Long Island Director of the New York State Department of Public Service, where she also worked on New York’s nation-leading clean energy policy “Reforming the Energy Vision.” At CLF, she helped advance public support and regulatory policy for New England’s first proposed wind projects, as well as utility reform, cleaner transportation, and energy efficiency. Julia first worked on offshore wind in 2004, when she left a 15-year career in journalism to join the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. She currently directs external affairs for the Equinor Wind US portfolio, including the development of Empire Wind for New York, Boardwalk Wind for New Jersey, and Equinor’s Massachusetts offshore wind energy lease off Massachusetts. Julia Bovey has worked to expand renewable energy policy and projects from four perspectives: advocacy, federal and state regulatory, and project development. Jessica Booker looks forward to helping others make diversity and inclusion integral parts of business. Her career path also included being an Executive Recruiter at Lucas Group where she spearheaded diversity and inclusions programs for Fortune 500 consumer-packaged goods companies. Talent Acquisition Partner/Diversity Leader at Coca-Cola leading diversity and inclusion initiatives.
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Jessica Booker sat as the Interim Global Talent Acquisition Director at PepsiCo and as a Sr. There she managed diversity and inclusion recruitment programs, public policy diversity outreach, diversity training and development nationwide. She is also an expert in fine-tuning existing diversity and inclusion initiatives for organizations that have programs and processes in place.īefore the Booker DEI Group, Jessica Booker served as Head of Diversity and Inclusion at Sunrun. Jessica utilizes detailed diversity data coupled with emotional intelligence awareness in order to help organizations design and implement inaugural diversity programs. Jessica Booker is the Founder & CEO of The Booker DEI Group, a human-centric diversity and inclusion consulting firm.