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Brad MacAfee is a purpose-driven leader known for transforming organizations, elevating talent, and aligning mission with measurable impact. As Chief Executive Officer of Fieldwise Civic Engagement and CEO of KAOH Media, Brad brings more than two decades of agency and leadership experience to advancing community-centered communications at scale. His vision and expertise guide Fieldwise Civic Engagement's growth as a national network of civic engagement professionals supporting clean energy, infrastructure, and community development across North America.

Renowned for his ability to recruit, develop, and inspire top talent, Brad has spent his career building high-performing teams grounded in trust, creativity, and shared purpose. His leadership style blends strategic clarity with human connection—ensuring that every initiative is led by people who not only understand the work but believe in its deeper impact.

Before founding and leading Mission + Cause, a consultancy dedicated to advancing purpose-driven leadership within the communications field, Brad spent nearly twenty years at Porter Novelli, ultimately serving as CEO & Senior Partner. Under his direction, Porter Novelli evolved into one of the industry’s foremost purpose-based agencies, earning recognition from PR Week and PR News as Best Purpose Agency and Best CSR Agency.

Brad has been honored as CEO of the Year for Brands Taking a Stand (CR Magazine, 2019) and is a Grady Fellow of the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He also serves as Board Chair for Wellroot Family Services, Board Member of Rescue Agency, and past President of the Board of Trust at the Grady College.

At Fieldwise Civic Engagement, Brad’s leadership amplifies the agency’s commitment to building bridges between developers, governments, and communities—grounding every engagement in authenticity, integrity, and excellence. Through his dual stewardship of KAOH Media and Fieldwise Civic Engagement, he continues to expand a shared ecosystem of talent and purpose designed to help clients earn trust, accelerate progress, and create lasting public value.

Brad MacAfee

Chief Executive Officer

Jeff is an accomplished energy project strategist with more than 25 years of experience guiding complex infrastructure initiatives across the nuclear, solar, wind, transmission, and emerging energy sectors. A former U.S. Navy Chief Nuclear Engineer, Jeff combines deep technical expertise with a rare ability to build trust among regulators, communities, and project partners — ensuring that ambitious projects earn both approval and public confidence.

Throughout his career, Jeff has led public engagement, permitting, and regulatory strategies for over 1,000 megawatts of utility-scale renewable energy projects, as well as major electric transmission and pipeline initiatives. His experience spans every level of stakeholder interaction — from local neighbors and elected officials to state agencies and federal regulators — consistently producing outcomes that align technical excellence with community understanding.

Jeff has built a distinguished career leading permitting, regulatory affairs, and stakeholder engagement for large-scale energy and infrastructure initiatives across North America. His leadership includes senior roles with Palmer & Associates, American Transmission Company, and We Energies, where he managed the successful permitting of a nuclear waste storage facility and oversaw more than $1 billion in new transmission assets.

Jeff’s foundation in technical rigor, strategic communication, and civic understanding reflects his Great Books education and his naval training — a combination that continues to guide his work in fostering dialogue, integrity, and shared progress in the evolving energy landscape.

Jeff Rauh

Project Permitting, Stakeholder Engagement & Regulatory Affairs

Andy Davis is a seasoned communications and sustainability leader with more than two decades of experience guiding complex energy and infrastructure projects from concept to community. At Fieldwise Civic Engagement, Andy helps shape strategies that turn technical vision into community alignment — ensuring that progress on the grid, in the field, and within local governments unfolds with trust, transparency, and long-term value.

His background spans leadership roles in public affairs, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability strategy across highly regulated sectors, including renewable energy, utilities, and food and agriculture. Drawing on his experience at Brookfield Renewable Partners, Chobani, and National Grid, Andy has led integrated ESG programs, government and community relations, and multi-jurisdictional permitting initiatives that connect corporate responsibility with local benefit.

A U.S. Army veteran, Andy brings a field-tested discipline and sense of purpose to every engagement. His approach combines the rigor of corporate strategy with the empathy of on-the-ground insight — bridging the gap between project developers, policymakers, and the communities they serve. At Fieldwise Civic Engagement, he plays a pivotal role in helping clients navigate the evolving landscape of renewable infrastructure, fostering the understanding and trust that make sustainable development possible.

Guided by his belief that the success of any project begins with the people it affects, Andy continues to champion collaboration, accountability, and enduring partnership as the foundation of responsible progress.

Andy Davis

Sustainable Infrastructure & Community Strategy

Ramon Montaño-Marquez is a restorative justice practitioner, DEIJ strategist, and community-based educator dedicated to advancing equity, cultural understanding, and sustainable development in partnership with Indigenous and local communities. At Fieldwise Civic Engagement, Ramon helps guide the agency’s tribal and intercultural engagement strategies—ensuring that every project begins with listening, respect, and reciprocity.

Ramon brings more than a decade of experience designing and leading restorative and culturally grounded programs across North America. As Director of Tribal Engagement, Culture & DEIJ for the Alliance for Tribal Clean Energy, he led organizational strategy to embed Native values into policy, training, and renewable-energy program design. His work included the creation of Pathways to Trust, a cultural competency curriculum now used to strengthen relationships between developers, tribal nations, and clean-energy partners.

Before his work in the renewable sector, Ramon held leadership and advisory roles in restorative justice, community development, and education—including with the Community Justice Center, San Diego Unified School District, and King Chavez Neighborhood of Schools—where he trained facilitators, designed community healing circles, and implemented trauma-informed approaches to justice and youth engagement.

A frequent collaborator with Indigenous and human-rights organizations globally, Ramon has served as an expert advisor to the United Nations, a member of the UN Indigenous Youth Caucus, and a board member of the U.S. Human Rights Network. His work has been recognized by the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and multiple civic organizations for advancing Indigenous representation and restorative policy.

At Fieldwise Civic Engagement, Ramon brings both depth and diplomacy to the firm’s tribal and cultural engagement efforts—bridging traditional knowledge with contemporary practice to foster trust, inclusion, and long-term partnership between developers, governments, and Native nations.

Ramon Montaño-Marquez

Tribal & Intercultural Relations

Randall is a nationally recognized leader in environmental redevelopment, brownfield transformation, and sustainable real estate investment. Over the past two decades, he has built a career at the intersection of environmental remediation and value creation—redeveloping complex industrial assets into thriving economic engines for communities and investors alike.

Randall served for 20 years as Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Environmental Liability Transfer, Inc. (ELT), the nation’s foremost firm specializing in the acquisition, remediation, and redevelopment of environmentally challenged real estate. Under his leadership, ELT acquired more than 20 million square feet of industrial facilities spanning tens of thousands of acres across North America. In doing so, ELT successfully assumed and remediated nearly $2 billion in environmental liabilities, setting new benchmarks for corporate sustainability and responsible redevelopment.

Randall’s work has catalyzed billions of dollars in new investment and vertical development in once-blighted industrial communities—helping to reshape the physical and economic landscape of North America. His innovative deal structures and commitment to sustainable outcomes have made him one of the most influential voices in the brownfield redevelopment sector.

A recognized thought leader, Randall continues to serve as an advisor to the US-EPA and was appointed by Rick Perry, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, to an advisory board position guiding the Department of Energy on environmental policy and redevelopment initiatives. He has been a featured speaker at five consecutive National Brownfield Conferences, has served as an instructor on brownfield development at Rutgers University, and has been a regular contributor to Bloomberg Environment.

In 2025, Randall received the Lifetime Achievement in Redevelopment Award from the Center for Creative Land Recycling, recognizing his enduring impact on the field and his leadership in promoting sustainable real estate transformation.

Randall Jostes

Brownfielding & Environmental Remediation

Let’s Build Support From the Ground Up

Approvals don’t happen by accident. They’re earned through presence, empathy, and follow-through. If you’re ready to bring your project to life—with the community, not in spite of it—Fieldwise Civic Engagement is your partner. We redefine civic engagement in land use development placing human infrastructure behind every successful project.

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