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Evan Roden.

Sustainability engineer at ENFRA managing hospital energy plants, with a background in biomedical research, organ donation advocacy, and film.
Selected work in Engineering.

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Three Pillars

Three areas of work.

Energy & Infrastructure

Currently managing the central energy plants at two Rochester Regional Health hospitals for ENFRA. Earlier account executive roles covered fire and life safety integration at Convergint and ERP software at Odoo.

$143.8MEaaS Partnership

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Civic Advocacy

More than seven years of work on opt-out organ donation law in New York, plus a climate policy fellowship and a New Orleans East plan that earned an honorable mention in C40's Students Reinventing Cities competition.

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Visual Arts

Camera work for Claiborne Avenue Productions, marketing video for Tulane's Freeman School, kiln-formed glass, and runway and editorial modeling for a Bizar Audi collection featured in Vogue Italy.

4Creative Disciplines

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Featured Work

Selected projects.

EngineeringEnergy-as-a-Service

ENFRA × Rochester Regional Health

$143.8 million, 30-year EaaS partnership with 34.4% guaranteed savings (more than $354.6M in avoided costs) and an expected 52.5% cut in purchased electricity.

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AdvocacyLegislative Advocacy

The YCOD — Opt-Out Organ Donation

Co-founded at fifteen. More than seven years of advocacy to change how New York designates organ donors, in what was then the state with the lowest registration rate in the country.

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ResearchBiomedical Engineering

VA Assistive Devices

Designed and 3D-printed tools that let veterans with double-arm loss put in and take out their own dentures and other oral appliances.

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CreativeCinematography

Claiborne Avenue Productions

Camera operator and editor under Albert J. Moten, Jr., working with the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K and Sony a7s II on productions in New Orleans.

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Recognition

On the record.

Advocacy for The YCOD covered by

CBC Radio
WKBW
Spectrum News

Students Reinventing Cities, Honorable Mention

C40 Cities · 2023

With the People First team, for a New Orleans East plan covering disaster planning, green infrastructure, transit, and housing. Mayor Cantrell honored the team.

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TEDxTulane speaker

The Myth of the Apolitical Youth · 2022

A talk arguing that young people are more politically engaged than they get credit for.

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Real Heroes nominee

American Red Cross · 2021

Nominated with three fellow co-founders for the Real Heroes Education Award for The YCOD.

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Vogue Italy editorial

Bizar Audi · Schooltime · 2020

Walked in the Buffalo runway presentation of Bizar Audi's Schooltime collection and modeled in the editorial Vogue Italy ran in 2020.

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About

Engineer, advocate, filmmaker.

Evan Roden co-founded The Youth Coalition For Organ Donation at fifteen and led it for more than seven years. He now manages the central energy plants at two Rochester Regional Health hospitals under ENFRA's $143.8 million Energy-as-a-Service partnership.

He studied biomedical engineering at Tulane, worked in three research labs there, and gave a TEDxTulane talk on youth political participation, “The Myth of the Apolitical Youth.” He has also shot and edited films as a cinematographer in New Orleans.

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