Valerie Shoates - Junior Board Member

Valerie Shoates is a special initiatives associate at BlocPower, a Brooklyn based climate tech startup pursuing new opportunities for the Company and coordinating investor relations. Prior to joining BlocPower, she worked at Plum Alley Investments, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage deep tech and frontier healthcare companies with women founders. She is deeply interested in the intersection of technology, innovation, policy, and politics. Valerie has a Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland where she focused on energy security.