students, which now graces the wall of the Colin Powell School’s new student lounge. Guerrero previously served as an NYC Urban Fellow in the Mayor’s Office and later worked on Jamaal Bowman’s 2020 congressional race. In 2021, they worked at Make the Road
NY coordinating the Fund Excluded Workers campaign, a statewide coalition that secured a first-in-the-nation $2.1 billion program for undocumented and other workers who were ineligible for federal unemployment insurance during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BLOOM ENERGY INNOVATION FELLOWSHIP
This past spring, Bloom Energy, in partnership with the Colin Powell School, introduced the first cohort of Colin Powell Bloom Energy Innovation Fellows at a ceremony in the rotunda of New York City Hall. In spring and summer 2023, the eleven Fellows gained extensive work and professional development experience through a cohortbased program at Bloom’s San Jose, California headquarters. The program provided students with experience in various business areas at Bloom Energy, a leading manufacturer in the fuel cell industry, including: mechanical, electrical and manufacturing engineering; human resources; marketing; finance; legal; business and data analytics; and information technology. Bloom Energy and CCNY created this internship program to invest in the future of the clean energy
workforce and to honor General Powell, a 1958 graduate of CCNY and a Bloom Energy Board member, as well as the company’s chief mission and values officer. By training students for success in the clean energy field, Bloom and CCNY are carrying out Powell’s vision of fostering the next generation of diverse global leaders. This initiative is an important new component of the efforts by CUNY and the City of New York to diversify the ranks of tech and clean energy, efforts that aim to position New York City and New Yorkers — and especially younger New Yorkers — at the center of these industries and the good jobs they produce for our city and society.
ANNUAL REPORT 2022 - 2023 I COLIN POWELL SCHOOL
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