Ellie Rizlenjani

Rising Sun Energy Center runs a summer program called California Youth Energy Services (CYES). During the summer program, over 150 youth are hired and trained as Energy Specialists. They provide residents in the cities and counties that we partner with no-cost energy and water assessments and upgrades— • Assisted CYES in helping cities and counties reach their climate action goals by performing our most successful summer program to date • Contributed to exceeding all annual goals in both number of homes serviced and energy and water saving installations, resulting in over 4,400 homes serviced; over ¾’s of a million KWH saved; over 9 million gallons of water saved annually • Executed a successful pre-summer outreach campaign to secure 950 community-based sign-ups for free energy audits across Solano County • Worked closely with a Regional Management team to supervise a team of 8 seasonal employees throughout 3 off-site locations of forty youth • Facilitated the training of 2 Program Associates with key programmatic tactics such as data entry and the booking of residential appointments • Nurtured strategic partnerships with city officials, property managers, faith-based groups, and neighborhood councils within 7 cities by participating in forty community events and implementing a series of grassroots outreach tactics in both social and traditional media