Rafael Reyes is a leader in clean energy and climate solutions on local and national levels. He is member of the Sierra Club’s national Board of Directors and former Program Manager for ecoAmerica. At ecoAmerica Rafael led large scale partnership projects to engage mainstream Americans on the benefits of environmental progress. This work included leading the development of the Sustainable Education and Economic Development Center, a program with the American Association of Community Colleges to accelerate efforts to educate the 21st century workforce.

With the Sierra Club, he has led numerous initiatives in both grassroots and national leadership roles including playing a strategic leadership role in development and launch of the Sierra Club’s Climate Crossroads online social network, and spearheading the grassroots clean energy Cool Cities initiative, and leading an award-winning organizing local efforts.

Locally, Rafael led the peninsula's Cool Cities initiative started in 2007, successfully moving municipalities throughout the region to implement climate solutions.  He sat on the City of San Mateo’s Sustainability Advisory Committee which developed the city’s climate action plan leading to the recent adoption of a region-leading green building ordinance and other actions.  Due in part to these efforts, over a dozen municipalities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties now have green building standards. Rafael also sits on the board of Sustainable San Mateo County.

His career includes 15 years in high-tech project management, systems architecture design and business consulting most recently with Hewlett-Packard. Rafael was born in Peru, is fluent in Spanish, has a Masters degree in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and a dual computer science/anthropology undergraduate degree with honors from UC Santa Cruz.