Virginia Clean Cities Coalition

Alleyn Harned joined Virginia Clean Cities in 2009 and serves as the program coordinator. Harned works from the Virginia Clean Cities partnership at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Prior to Clean Cities, Harned served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Trade in Virginia.

Ryan Cornett joined Virginia Clean Cities in 2009 and serves as Outreach Coordinator. Cornett works from the Virginia Clean Cities partnership at James Madison University. Since joining Virginia Clean Cities, he has spearheaded many of the coalitions outreach items including a bi-monthly newsletter, event management, and maintaining regular contact with the coalition's stakeholders. Cornett has also done management work on several of Virginia Clean Cities' projects including a National Clean Diesel Campaign award, a Clean School Bus USA idle-reduction project, and a Hydrogen Education project. He also works with the Valley 25x25 demonstration project at JMU. The project's goal is to help Virginia's Shenandoah Valley reach 25% energy consumption from renewable sources by the year 2025.

Cornett is from Collinsville, VA and attended Ferrum College where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in History and Political Science in 2007. After an internship with the Martinsville-Henry County Economic Development Corporation following graduation, Cornett began work on his Master's degree in Public Administration from James Madison University, which he completed in 2009. He worked as a graduate fellow for JMU's Institute for Infrastructure and Information Security prior to joining Virginia Clean Cities.