Inna Braverman
Co-Founder and CEO, Eco Wave Power
Inna Braverman founded Eco Wave Power in 2011. With her leadership, Eco Wave Power installed the first grid-connected wave energy array in Gibraltar. She is also responsible for securing 190MW of projects pipe-line for the company. For Inna, clean electricity is a very personal journey, as she was born 2 weeks prior to the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, and suffered respiratory arrest due to the pollution in the region.
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, the woman putting up a global fight to preserve indigenous communities
An interview by Anne-Sophie Garrigou
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
Leading Coordinator, AFPAT
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim has been an advocate for the rights of indigenous peoples and the protection of the environment for over 15 years. She is leading a community-based organisation in Chad, AFPAT, which is active in most international Sustainable Development Goal areas, including climate change, biodiversity, desertification, health & education.
Dymphna van der Lans
CEO, Clean Cooking Alliance
Dymphna is the CEO of the Clean Cooking Alliance, bringing 25+ years of experience in global development, energy, and climate initiatives. She has worked and lived in China, India, and Kenya, and engaged with island nations in the Caribbean and the Indian and Pacific Oceans to support their transition to renewable energy.
Twitter: @DymphnaVDL
Anne-Sophie Garrigou
Editor-in-Chief, The Beam Magazine
Anne-Sophie Garrigou is a journalist, a feminist and an environmentalist with a passion for women’s rights, environmental sustainability and for raising awareness for climate action. In Berlin, she has co-created The Beam Magazine, a feminist publication covering the climate crisis and sustainable development.
Twitter: @GarrigouAnneSo
Why gender equality is needed for successful climate policies
An interview with Alexandra Wandel, Executive Director of the World Future Council
Female leaders are on the rise — empowered, we are unstoppable
Anna Lässer, Co-Founder of Impact Hub Berlin
“There’s no place where I don’t advocate. It is just part of who I am.”
We talk with Sheila Oparaocha from ENERGIA about gender, energy, poverty and politics
Annie Easley, the rocket scientist who worked at NASA before it was even called NASA
This article was featured in The Beam #8 — Together for Climate Justice
Frances Pinero
Biomedical Engineer
Frances Pinero is an American Latina living in Belgium, and is keeping busy raising 3 little citizens of the world. Her career as a cardiac device engineer gave her a first-hand view of how most of the First World diseases are preventable, but the systems in-place are not interested in addressing the root causes. She’s now devoted to spreading the news about how to save our planet and our health.