People

“I’ve told our employees, don’t let a perfect conversation get in the way of a good conversation. I might use a word or say something that may not sound right but know my heart is in the right place.”

“From an investment standpoint, within the community, diverse business owners, and diverse suppliers, it’s a game changer. It creates a competitive environment that allows you to have local impact.”

“For every job that becomes available, two things have to happen. You have to present a diverse slate of people to interview for that job and have a diverse interviewing panel.”

His great-grandmother was Lewis Latimer’s sister. Conversation with former National Urban League president Hugh Price, along with Lewis Latimer House Museum executive director Ran Yan.

PUF's annual look at our industry's drive to diversify its workforce and spend, plus a very special conversation on diversity in history.

PUF's Executive Editor Steve Mitnick discussed his book, Lewis Latimer, The First Hidden Figure, with NRRI Director Carl Pechman and an esteemed panel. The book is part of a larger activity to build diversity in the electric industry, with profits helping establish the PUF Latimer Scholarship Fund administered by the American Association of Blacks in Energy.

NYPA’s Susan Craig and PUF’s Steve Mitnick talk about Edith Clarke’s breakthrough enabling the electric industry to engineer lines over 200 miles and ultimately today’s grid.

“One of the things we’ve done is look at a number of investor decks from peer utilities. I had my team look at them. It’s to get folks to think a little differently.”

“I was the second woman engineer ever hired in a 104-year-old company. It required that the culture shift. The first woman engineer, Colleen Ramsey, was super helpful to me.”

Conversations with the CEO of IDACORP, Lisa Grow, and COO of American Electric Power, Lisa Barton.