J West is a training manager at CEDA — the Community and Economic Development Association, in Chicago — and is also the proprietor of High Performance Human Habitats Training & Consulting.

J has trained hundreds of instructors, energy auditors, quality control inspectors, and crew members from around North America, and has been involved at Federal, state, and local levels delivering building performance training, developing curriculum, performing building research, and facilitating working groups.

J is the co-creator of the bilingual weatherization training series Carlito’s New Adventures in Weatherization. Read J’s articles in the Habitat X Journal.