Watching East Africa’s Energy Access Sector Grow: Views from Rwanda

These last few weeks of 2019 have been full of meeting inspiring innovators and engaging eager students across East Africa. I don’t take for granted the opportunity to chat with so many bright minds, and I continue to motivated by how much interest in and need for research I see across the region. This November […]

Supporting Kenyans in the fight against coal country

Last week the UNESCO World Heritage Committee held its annual convening in Baku, Azerbaijan. I had the amazing honor of attending with the local Kenyan grassroots coalition deCOALonize, who are working tirelessly to stop the construction of a massive coal power plant in Lamu, a precious world heritage site in coastal Kenya and cradle of […]

Energy Access: Powering Health Care

Last week the United Nations Foundation held its Powering Health Care Conference here in Nairobi. I moderated a panel of fantastic researchers as we explored what the data says about the link between clean energy access and health care. The statistics were staggering — health care facilities with reliable electricity supply perform better in number […]