Ben Prochazka
Ben Prochazka works at the Electrification Coalition, a non-partisan, non-profit group of business leaders committed to promoting actions to accelerate the adoption of plug-in electric vehicles throughout the United States. Ben has worked at the Electrification Coalition for five years, first as the Director of Strategic Initiatives and currently as the Vice-President. Throughout his career, Ben has spent more than a decade working on environmental, human rights, and voter engagement efforts. His experience includes leadership roles as the Campaign Director for the Save Darfur Coalition, the Legislative Director for the Colorado Environmental Coalition, the Colorado State Director for the New Voters Project, and numerous public interest campaign efforts as the Western States Field Organizer for U.S.PIRG. Prior to Ben’s experience at SAFE and the Electrification Coalition, he served in the role of Vice President at FieldWorks, a national political consulting firm. While at FieldWorks, Ben led projects for a diverse group of corporate, non-profit, academic, and political clients. This included programs with SolarCity, the Environmental Defense Action Fund, and a recent joint pilot with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California at Berkeley – Hass School of Business – to test encouragement models for federally funded low-income weatherization.