Adam Flint is Director of Clean Energy Programs at the Network for a Sustainable Tomorrow (NEST), which he co-founded in 2008. From 2011-2013, he ran the Energy Leadership Program at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County, where he coordinated the Southern Tier Green Jobs Green New York program. He has worked as an educator in the Southern Tier for more than twenty years, including posts as Assistant Professor of Sociology at Hartwick College and as lecturer in Environmental Studies and Latin American Studies at Binghamton University. Adam co-founded the Tier Energy Network of the Southern Tier, and also, the NY Energy Democracy Alliance, where he coordinates Community Owned Shared Renewables Working Group, and represents the Alliance on the Energy Democracy Project, a national initiative to create shared technical, best practice and expert resources to serve the needs of the movement.

From supporting low income families to make their homes energy efficient, to working to make community shared solar accessible regardless of income, social and environmental justice has been a driving value throughout his career. He leads up NEST’s clean energy careers pathways initiative, which seeks to create a system of information, education, training and employment to serve people in a wide variety of life circumstances and institutions, including k-12, people with challenges to employment and those looking to make career changes. His latest initiative, Binghamton Community Power, is an alliance of housing, healthcare, community and clean energy organizations and individuals doing energy education and engagement for community empowerment.