About

While I’ve had an interest in our planet and it’s health most of my life, hiked with various organizations like Sierra Club, Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, Louisiana Hiking Club, tried to reduce my environmental footprint, I actively started off on a career path in that direction in 2007, taking photovoltaic and sustainable building workshops with Solar Energy International. My first workshop with them was an all women’s Photovoltaic Design & Installation two-week workshop. It was so much fun, and so enlightening being with other women. I was ready to take off with solar, and started looking for work in the Denver/Boulder area. It was a shock to discover that women could face “obstacles” looking for work in solar. I had one comment by a puzzled interviewer  from a Boulder, CO solar company “I don’t know why I’m being contacted by SEI women. This is a construction trade.”

So I learned, as with my experience when I started in the computer field many, many years ago, this was going to be an uphill slog. Okay for women to teach or be in sales, but field work…well, not so much. After trying for several years to partner up unsuccessfully with other solar companies in Louisiana, I decided to branch out and started looking towards the west and northwest for opportunities. That’s what this journey and this blog is about.