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Center for Environment, Commerce & Energy
David Hahn-Baker (pictured below left) was a founding Center board member (1985). He now runs Inside/Out Political Consultants
AAEA President Norris McDonald
Center Circa 1991 at the 1st People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit in Washington, DC: Morning Sunday -- Director, Baltimore Office for the Mid-Atlantic Region, Sulaiman Mahdi -- Director, Atlanta Office for the Southeastern Region, Norris McDonald -- President, Washington, DC Office, Todd Thomas -- Director, Chicago Office for the Midwestern Region and Peggie Sheppard -- Director, New York Office
Early 1990's employees when the Center office was on Capitol Hill
1990 Interns James Tutton,
Lavelle Gaston and Nikki Stewart
Center accepts support from IBM in 1990. IBM donated the computer pictured above with the interns. Jannie Pittman (below right), an IBM employee at the time, was also a founding Center board member. Pittman now works for Coca Cola.
In 1990 Center held Earth Days in Washington, DC and Atlanta. The DC Earth was sponsored by George Gurley (pictured below to Jesse Jackson's right) and cosponsored and organized by Center. Sulaiman Mahdi was Director for the Center Atlanta, Georgia Office for the Southeastern Region. Earth Day founder Dennis Hayes is standing to Jackson's left and then DC Mayor Marion Barry is at far left.
Sulaiman (in hat at right) also planted a tree at the Martin Luther King Center in Atlanta for Earth Day 1990
