Chandra Farley serves as chief sustainability officer for the City of Atlanta. In this role, Chandra sets direction for the city’s sustainability and resilience goals and leads the interdepartmental and community-wide engagement necessary to address the inequitable effects of climate change. Chandra’s charge is the development of a comprehensive climate resilience strategy that will address energy insecurity, healthy housing, food systems, waste diversion, building decarbonization, workforce training, and fleet electrification while advancing the city’s goal to achieve 100% clean energy for 100% of Atlantans by 2035. Chandra is also developing the strategy to leverage the historic federal investment in clean energy and the Justice40 Initiative to advance these goals through a lens of environmental justice. Prior to joining the city, Chandra founded ReSolve Consulting, an energy justice consulting firm and the Good Energy Project, a social space connecting the transformational power of Black women and their community leadership to the movement for an equitable clean energy economy. In 2022, Chandra completed a historic run for the Georgia Public Service Commission.