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Erik Antokal

Erik Antokal, Director of Workforce Development, Orsted

Erik Antokal is an experienced program designer and worker advocate specializing in skilled trades careers and inclusion of over-burdened groups in those careers. He specializes in building racial and gender equity through mutually beneficial union, community and employer partnerships, and he is especially focused on construction, operations careers in the offshore wind industry. Most recently, Antokal spent seven years practicing workforce development in the construction and utilities industries, at Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW), a nonprofit that prepares women for union trade careers and at FC Modular, an ambitious venture to mass-produce high rise buildings in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Antokal is a graduate of the Coro Fellows Program and of Tufts University.