Rose M. Mutiso is a Kenyan activist and

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. She is co-founder and CEO of

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. She is the research director of the Energy for Growth Hub. She was short listed for the 2020 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award.

Education

Mutiso attended engineering school at

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, before completing her PhD in

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at the

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in the lab of Karen I. Winey. Her dissertation focused material properties for

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. She did her postdoc as a 2013-14 congressional science fellow with the

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Career

Mutiso was a fellow in the

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. She was Energy and Innovation Policy Fellow in the office of Senator

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(as part of her postdoc). Mutiso's activism work focuses on improving energy access in Africa in a climate-conscious way. Through the Mawazo Institute she hopes to train more women in the research and engineering skills necessary to further develop the Kenyan energy sector. She served on the advisory board for African Utility Week 2018. She has advocated for international carbon budgeting that recognizes both the comparatively low current emissions of African nations and allots space for their future development into higher energy consumptions. She has written for

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and also given a

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on the topic.

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