Ali Dunham is Co-Director of EnergySmart CNY, one of twelve NYSERDA-supported Regional Clean Energy Hubs across New York State. She helps lead the Hub’s operations and strategic direction, coordinates programs across its partner organizations, and serves as a spokesperson and community resource. Ali works closely with local and statewide partners to strengthen clean energy programs, build relationships with clean energy businesses and agencies, and expand workforce development opportunities throughout the region.
Ali holds a B.S. in Natural Resources, with a concentration in Resource Planning, and a minor in Community & International Development from the University of Vermont. She brings experience in regional and local government, workforce development, community engagement, and clean energy. She combines her academic and professional background to support community development, grow the regional clean energy workforce, and help Central New York advance its energy goals.
Suren Moodliar is Co-Director of EnergySmart CNY, one of twelve NYSERDA-supported Regional Clean Energy Hubs across New York State. He helps lead the Hub’s operations and strategic direction, and coordinates programs across its partner organizations. Suren works closely with local and statewide partners to strengthen clean energy programs, and expand outreach opportunities throughout the region.
Suren brings a campaigning background in housing, labor and corporate accountability to his energy-related outreach work. This is also influenced by his deep appreciation for diverse communities and respect for their histories – this has driven his life-long organizing and publishing history. Suren is from South Africa and has lived in Syracuse and Central New York for close to a decade.
Erica has been working since Spring 2018 with residents and energy efficiency. Erica was Campaign Director of the former HeatSmart FLX Campaign, then worked with the Southern Tier Hub, both under Cornell Cooperative Extension via NYSERDA. Prior to that she monitored invasive plants in Cayuga/other nearby lakes, and she provided outdoor/environmental education for children with the non-profit Nature’s Classroom.
Erica enjoys providing empowerment, education, and support to folks to help them reach their energy goals across the Central New York region. She is excited to bring her experience to the EnergySmart CNY team, as well as her personal experience as a renter and homeowner navigating energy options.
Lacey joined the team after graduating from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry with a B.S. in Sustainable Energy Management in May 2023. She focused her studies on renewable energy and building science, and is passionate about reducing the energy burden. Lacey wants to continue her work helping out community members, and making homes more energy efficient.
David began his sustainability career in the Solid Waste Program field as a Recycling Coordinator where he focused on the 4R’s principle; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, & Respect. David has worked directly with Native Nations and their tribal environmental programs in several states, but especially New York. Recognizing the need to respect the Earth, David provided outreach and education in topics such as the dangers of hazardous waste, reducing, reusing/repairing, & recycling. His main passion is to explain the health benefits of sustainability and energy efficiency and help people envision a society that reduces overconsumption and pollution. David has a degree in Environmental Studies and he makes up-cycled art with recyclables.
Saw has worked as a community educator for more than 20 years, focusing on community solar, sustainable agriculture and development, and climate change issues. Prior to joining AGREE in 2025, Saw worked for more than 15 years advocating for the rights of conflict-affected communities in Myanmar/Burma, and then for several years in NY state helping New Yorkers access public assistance programs and teaching them about how the state addresses climate change in urban areas. He brings a deep commitment to social equity, sustainability, and environmental justice to his work as a community advocate and educator.
Kayla is an established community volunteer–her desire to connect her work improving Onondaga County’s food system with renewable energy practices is what led her to joining our team. She’s passionate about what effect fossil fuels have on the food CNY consumes and what she can do to limit, and eventually eliminate, that effect.
Alex DiTullio is dedicated to bringing people together through volunteer organizing, grassroots outreach, and coalition building. Having mobilized teams across multiple congressional and local campaigns, Alex combines strong fundraising experience with a passion for empowering volunteers to take meaningful action. When not working to grow movements, Alex can usually be found tending to his garden and experimenting with homegrown peppers to craft the perfect hot sauce.
Patrick Dermody is a Workforce Initiatives Manager for Westcott Community Center’s Greater Syracuse Works initiative; responsible for managing a network of partnerships focused on providing wrap-around services and identifying barriers to employment that can be resolved through connections and collaborations; as well as activities related to community outreach, including connecting with job seekers and students, supporting them through exploring training opportunities and clean energy career pathways.
Graduating with a BA in Economics at Connecticut College in 2015, Patrick obtained his MPA at the Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs while serving as a Snow Fellow at the Central New York Community Foundation. Patrick has worked in various grant writing and community engagement positions throughout his career including Cooperative Federal in Syracuse and Upstate Caring Partners in Utica. Patrick also served for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay where he carried out projects and initiatives concerning Youth Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Cross-Cultural Education.
Lindsay is a Principal Planner at the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board and the lead Founder of EnergySmart CNY.
Lindsay built the prior HeatSmart CNY campaign from the ground up while working at Alliance for a Green Economy, helping hundreds of building owners improve their energy efficiency and install heat pumps, leading the HeatSmart CNY campaign to be #1 in New York State for carbon emission reductions. Lindsay’s deep commitment to environmental justice and the local community comes from her many years of working with the Onondaga Nation and local EJ organizations on environmental issues throughout the region, as well as personal experience renovating a home and living in a disadvantaged community. She is a lifelong resident of Central New York.
Lindsay is a graduate of Cornell University (Natural Resources ‘04) and Vermont Law School (Master of Environmental Law and Policy ’14). She is a recipient of Greening USA’s Sustaining Our Communities Award (2019).