James Cunningham
Outreach & Community Engagement Manager at Ava Community Energy
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cunningham is an outreach and community engagement leader with 11 years of experience building pathways from clean-tech employers to frontline communities, currently shaping inclusive workforce strategies at Ava Community Energy. Grounded in sustainability studies from Evergreen State College, he has advanced through progressive roles at GRID Alternatives and Sungevity where he combined program design, operations, and field-level sales to scale workforce development and community care initiatives. James blends grassroots organizing, volunteer coordination, and data-informed outreach to drive equitable participation in the green economy, having managed teams of 25+ and launched new community-facing roles and programs. Based in Oakland, he brings a rare mix of hands-on solar sales experience, policy-adjacent program leadership, and storytelling — evidenced by earlier blogging on community solar — that helps translate social justice goals into measurable workforce outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sustainability Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sustainability Studies at The Evergreen State CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Gaithersburg High School
Github Skills (126)
security10
jose10
ftdi10
javascript10
jwk10
github-api10
vault10
golang10
jwe10
django9
jwt9
service-discovery9
packer9
spi9
onesignal9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jamesearl/pkg-packer
Apr 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
jamesearl/pkg-consul
Mar 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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