Kathleen Buchholz
Kathleen is a graduate student at the American University of Paris working toward a MA in International Affairs. She holds a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs and a minor in Business from Florida State University, where she graduated with the Honors Medallion. Kathleen grew up in South Florida and next to travel her favorite pastimes are golf and figure skating.
She attributes her interest in energy poverty to her close proximity to the Florida Everglades and the yearly power outages caused by hurricane season. Kathleen developed this interest further while working and studying as part of a practicum in sustainable development in Auroville, India. Here she experienced firsthand how unreliable access to clean energy can affect every aspect of life, including something basic as being able to study at night.
Kathleen will be interning for Lifeline Energy in Zambia this fall and will apply her experiences and research to her graduate thesis on Energy Poverty. By doing so she hopes to substantiate how access to renewable energy products, such as solar lighting and Lifeline Energy’s solar and wind-up MP3 players and radios, impact education. Kathleen is thrilled to work with Lifeline Energy, as she believes that energy poverty is an injustice that must be ended for any development project to succeed.
She attributes her interest in energy poverty to her close proximity to the Florida Everglades and the yearly power outages caused by hurricane season. Kathleen developed this interest further while working and studying as part of a practicum in sustainable development in Auroville, India. Here she experienced firsthand how unreliable access to clean energy can affect every aspect of life, including something basic as being able to study at night.
Kathleen will be interning for Lifeline Energy in Zambia this fall and will apply her experiences and research to her graduate thesis on Energy Poverty. By doing so she hopes to substantiate how access to renewable energy products, such as solar lighting and Lifeline Energy’s solar and wind-up MP3 players and radios, impact education. Kathleen is thrilled to work with Lifeline Energy, as she believes that energy poverty is an injustice that must be ended for any development project to succeed.