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[wd_asp id=1]Women, Social Enterprise, and Sustainability
Women, Social Enterprise, and Sustainability
A Conversation with Neha Misra, Kelly Owensby, and Schuyler DeBree
Join us for a discussion about local and global strategies for creating sustainable communities through women-centered social enterprise. Our three panelists will guide us through examples from their work to help us understand and explore the role of women in reducing energy poverty, providing healthy local food and community gathering spaces, and developing a global supply chain of sustainably produced tea. We’ll talk about the theory and practice behind focusing on women in community development programs as well as some of the challenges involved in social enterprise-based projects.
Free and open to the public. Light lunch served. This program is a collaboration between the Forum for Scholars and Publics and SwitchPoint.
Speakers
Neha Misra
Solar Sister
Neha Misra is the Co-Founder & Chief Collaboration Officer of Solar Sister - the world’s first women-led social enterprise addressing extreme energy poverty at scale through women’s entrepreneurship and leadership. Solar Sister’s award-winning innovation combines the breakthrough potential of solar and clean cooking technologies with a woman-driven last mile distribution…...
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Transplanting Traditions Community Farm
Kelly Owensby began working in sustainable agriculture in 2005 after graduating from UNC-CH with a degree in cultural studies. She worked on eight vegetable and flower farms in N.C. before shifting her work towards community development and starting Transplanting Traditions Community Farm in 2010. Over the past eight years she…...
Read MoreSchuyler DeBree
Schuyler DeBree is a Senior at Duke University pursuing an Environmental Science and Policy Major and a Sustainability Certificate. Schuyler is focused on non-traditional solutions to environmental challenges, such as art, entrepreneurship, and sustainable product design/ management. She is currently conducting research on the the sustainability of the Kenyan Tea…...
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