Sandra Kwak
Growing Positive Impacts Through Renewable Energy Deployment
Sandra kwak is an executive strategist and systems thinker motivated by a passion for sustainability.
She is Founder and CEO of social venture 10Power. 10Power works with under-served communities globally to build capacity for renewable energy, clean water, gender empowerment and ecosystem restoration.
As a board member at the Foundation for Climate Restoration she is working on realizing macro climate solutions that will help us get as quickly as possible to 300 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Previously she worked with AutoGrid, transforming the energy efficiency industry by creating actionable intelligence out of big data from the smart grid. Sandra Co Founded and served as President and COO of energy efficiency company Powerzoa.
As a public speaker and educator, Sandra has presented at conferences and events ranging from the world's largest computer conference in Germany, CEBIT, to the Envision festival in Costa Rica. She has guest lectured at Stanford and CA College of the Arts, and taught 'Race, Activism and Climate Justice' at San Francisco State University.
In her former life as an artist, Sandra opened and ran several studios providing the first all-digital photography experience in the US. She established and directed arts non-profit, Deconform and served as Stage Manager for international award-winning, site-specific dance troupe Blue Lapis Light and was a Board Member and Chair of Marketing and Arts for the first Bioneers conference in the Southeast.
Show Notes
PROSECUTORS HIT ANTI-PIPELINE PROTESTERS WITH FELONY CHARGES TO SEND A MESSAGE, DEFENSE SAYS
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
" It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors.” - Paulo Freire