Solarenergy.net Posted on Tuesday April 21, 2015 by Rachel Barron
Jeanine Cotter, CEO of solar installation company Luminalt, has witnessed profound resiliency. She watched her mother transform her life from divorcée, single teenage mother of two children, and public-assistance recipient to college graduate with a degree in urban planning, and then co-founder of a nonprofit that provides renewable energy and water systems to alleviate poverty in the developing world.
“Being in poverty does not define what your capabilities are. It does not define your ability to perform or your ability succeed,” Cotter said.
What poverty does do, she said, is limit access to opportunities. That’s why Cotter has made it part of her professional work to open up doors for people who might not have thought of solar as source of livelihood, and a way to help their families and communities rise. Continue Reading