ACT Expo 2017

Ben Prochazka
Vice President
Securing America's Future Energy


Ben Prochazka joined Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE) in October 2012 as the director of strategic initiatives to help lead the Outside the Beltway initiatives. Prochazka has spent more than a decade working on environmental, human rights, and voter engagement efforts. His experience includes leadership roles as 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. For the past two years, Prochazka has been serving in the role of vice president at FieldWorks, a national political consulting firm. While at FieldWorks, he 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. Before joining FieldWorks, Prochazka served as the lobbyist for the Colorado Environmental Coalition (CEC) a statewide group representing more than 100 environmental, public health, and religious organizations and was responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of the conservation community agenda at the legislature. During his two years with CEC, the conservation community passed over 100 “pro-conservation” bills including several first-in-the-nation efforts. Prochazka also directed successful field and fundraising programs for national campaigns on behalf of The Save Darfur Coalition, The Genocide Prevention Project, the Human Rights Campaign, Dream for Darfur, and many other national organizations. He also led numerous large-scale rallies, grassroots advocacy campaigns, volunteer activities, and visibility events involving as many as 100,000 people.

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