Jahi Wise is Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates. He graduated from the joint degree program where he studied clean energy finance at Yale Law School and Yale School of Management. He is particularly interested in developing financial vehicles that enable the deployment of energy efficiency technologies in low to moderate income communities. Jahi split his first summer between the Energy and Infrastructure Projects practice at Skadden Arps and the general counsel’s office of Energy Services, Inc. He split his second summer between the Energy and Infrastructure Projects Group at Skadden Arps and City First Enterprises a Community Development Financial Institution in Washington, D.C. Before enrolling at Yale, Jahi worked as a community organizer in Washington, D.C. where he devised and led campaigns around green job creation, affordable housing and education. He has a B.A. in Political Science from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
On Oct. 20, stakeholders from across the clean-energy-finance sector came together for the day-long conference in New York City, Innovations in Clean Energy Finance IV: Market Successes and Lessons for Lower Income.
Before leaving for summer recess, the United States House of Representatives passed an innovative bipartisan energy-efficiency-finance bill that may change the landscape for resource efficiency in affordable multifamily housing. The Private Investment in Housing Act of 2015 authorizes the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development to initiate a pay-for-success demonstration project that would provide energy- and water-efficiency retrofits for 20,000 units of government-supported multifamily affordable housing without any government funding.