Current: An Energy Podcast

In this episode of Current, ILLUME Founder, Anne Dougherty talks with ILLUME Analyst, Arianna Zrzavy about Environmental Justice (EJ) and how EJ screening tools can be used to support communities and policy-makers in better serving historically disadvantaged or marginalized communities.

In this episode of Current, Anne Dougherty talks with ILLUME’s People Champion, Yasmeen Chánes about what it means to be a values-driven workplace and ways that organizations are addressing employee wellness. From hybrid-working, to addressing DEI, to examining the after effects of the Great Resignation, this episode offers an in-depth look at how ILLUME lives its value of “Taking Good Care.”

In this podcast ILLUME Founder and Co-Owner, Anne Dougherty, talks with ILLUME Vice President, Laura Schauer, to discuss ways in which utilities are becoming more customer-centric as they seek to add value to the customer experience. This conversation is a follow up to Laura's blog, Why the Future of Utilities Is All About Adding Value to Customer Experience, published in collaboration with Salesforce

As the threat of climate change grows, states and utilities are looking to reshape our energy workforce on their way to building a cleaner economy. In this episode, we sit down with ILLUME's Eileen Hannigan and Mike Li to talk about our industry's transition from coal and natural gas to renewable resources, and discuss why the American workforce is at the center of that transition.

This podcast follows our team through a journey of one-on-one conversations focused on the experiences of our fellow team members navigating the workplace from a variety of identities and lived experiences with the goal of helping us all to be better colleagues, allies, and to better serve our work. In our second episode, ILLUME’s Dr. Alex Dunn and Victor Mercado talk about the Latino/Latina/Latinx experience in the workplace and share insights on what it means to show up to the workplace when your experience is different than that of those around you.

In this episode of Current, ILLUME Co-Founders Anne Dougherty and Sara Conzemius reflect on the company’s eighth anniversary as they talk through the dual mission of better serving the energy industry and better serving their employees. Listen in as they reminisce about the early days of the company and fast-forward to 2021 as Anne and Sara explain why the timing was right for an Advisory Board and why every company should have a People’s Champ.

This podcast follows our team through a journey of one-on-one conversations focused on the experiences of our fellow team members navigating the workplace from a variety of identities and lived experiences with the goal of helping us all to be better colleagues, allies, and to better serve our work. In our first episode, ILLUME’s Jes Rivas and Amanda Maass talk about the LGBTQ experience in the workplace and share insights on what it means to show up to the workplace when your experience is different than that of those around you.

How can organizations create cultures that enable employees to bring their full selves to the workplace? In this special preview of ILLUME’s next podcast series, we sit down with University of Arizona Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dr. Eric Plemons and University of Arizona Associate Professor of Emerging Literacies in Rhetoric, Composition & the Teaching of English, Dr. Stephanie Troutman Robbins, to help us think critically about how discussions that focus on race and gender are good for us and can help us be better colleagues, and do better work.

Join ILLUME Director, Dr. Liz Kelley and Senior Analyst, Emily Morris as they discuss best practices in health and energy programs to help us answer the question: How are utilities and program administrators thinking about and exploring the health and energy nexus?

In this special episode, Anne Dougherty interviews members of Tucson's Commission on Climate, Energy, and Sustainability. Get an insider's look at how community leaders are thinking through equity, energy impacts, climate adaptation plans, economic development, and restoring the balance between our natural spaces, our cities, and ourselves. Plus, listen in as these commissioners describe their first experience at the Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC) Conference.