Jonathan Welle is an organizer at Cleveland Owns, a nonprofit that incubates cooperative businesses. He is incubating two community-led solar groups, The BC in Hough, a mostly Black neighborhood on Cleveland's east side, and The Cleveland Solar Cooperative.

These groups are using collective ownership of solar finance mechanisms and solar arrays to promote a just transition to a clean energy economy.

Jonathan has worked as a small business development advisor in the Peace Corps, as a Regional Field Director with President Obama’s reelection campaign, and as a business consultant with McKinsey & Company, where he worked with corporate and public-sector clients in financial turnarounds and revitalizing organizational culture.

He has a master’s in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. Jonathan grew up in Mayfield, Ohio, and boomeranged back to the City of Cleveland in 2015.