Katherine Lucey – Social Entrepreneur who established Solar Sister

Katherine Lucey is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Solar Sister, a creative last mile dissemination answer for clean energy advancements in rustic Africa that takes advantage of the force of ladies business visionaries.

Solar Sister enlists, prepares and tutors ladies to construct reasonable organizations selling convenient sunlight based lights, cell phone chargers and clean cookstoves. It consolidates the advancement capability of clean energy innovations with an organization of grassroots ladies business people. Solar Sister business people utilize their informal organizations to give the best conveyance channel to the country and difficult to arrive at clients.

Katherine is an energetic promoter of ladies’ monetary strengthening with a demonstrated history of working in the renewables and climate industry. She is a strong business advancement proficient and is very gifted in social enterprise, sustainable business, International relations, advocacy and philanthropy.

She holds a M.B.A. from Georgia State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from the University of Georgia. Before turning into a social business visionary, Katherine went through more than 20 years as a speculation broker on Wall Street giving organized money answers for the energy area.

Katherine Lucey is an Ashoka Fellow and a Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Entrepreneur. She has gotten acknowledgment and grants for her work with Solar Sister including Clinton Global Initiative, Social Venture Network, C3E and International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) Champion of Change Award.