Five innovators heading to CGI: let there be light
Category
Clean Energy, Economic Opportunity & Security, Employment and Enterprises
News Organization
Fast Company
Publication Date
14 September 2010
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Fast Company profiles Katherine Lucey, founder and CEO of Solar Sister, a social enterprise that provides women with training and support to create solar micro businesses. The organization was a finalist in the Women | Tools | Technology: Building Opportunities & Economic Power Challenge, an initiative announced last year at the Clinton Global Initiative by ExxonMobil in partnership with Ashoka’s Changemakers and ICRW.
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