Bracken Hendricks is an Evergreen co-founder. As CEO and founder of Urban Ingenuity, Bracken oversees one of the nation’s leading commercial PACE financing programs, and manages efforts to finance and develop solar energy and microgrid projects with a special focus on underserved communities. Before launching Urban Ingenuity, he was a senior fellow at Center for American Progress, where he shaped clean energy portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and established the Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Challenge. Together with Governor Jay Inslee, Bracken is co-author of the book, “Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy”, and he has served as a long-time advisor to former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. Early in his career, he founded the Apollo Alliance, a pioneering labor and environmental partnership. Bracken holds a master’s degree in public policy and urban planning from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.