Keena Leigh Mullins is a community advocate, clean energy entrepreneur and operations executive who says she structures her career around energy innovation. Mullins was raised in a traditional coal mining family and co-founded Revolt Energy in 2019, serving as chief executive officer. She later worked as vice president of operations at Watthub. Mullins has worked as a policy advocate and lobbyist focusing on regional economic diversification, eventually serving as board president of the West Virginia Environmental Council. She says her political focus was shaped by her personal family experiences navigating state mental health and crisis systems. She has centered her campaign around regional economic transition and mental health reform after winning the May 2026 Democratic primary. Her other priorities include protecting local municipal governance, clean-tech manufacturing and workforce retraining, with calls for comprehensive mental health reform, criminal justice diversion programs and protecting municipal local control.
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