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Monday, August 26, 2013
Sarah Dimson, a MIT graduate student in urban planning with a specialization in international development, is focusing her attention to help provide grid and micro-grid scale renewable energy and affordable housing across sub-Saharan Africa. Her parents were from Ghana and her regular visits as a child helped propel this dream.
Dimson received a fellowship from MIT’s Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship, and will establish a real estate development and energy infrastructure company in Tanzania upon graduating from MIT in June 2014. She graduated from Stanford University in 2002 with a Bachelor’s in science, technology, and society. She went on to work in Los Angeles for an affordable housing developer, helping to gear her interest toward the renewable energy sector. She was named the Acumen Global Fellow in 2009 and worked in Lahore, Pakistan for a year.
Dimson plans to utilize US president Barack Obama’s recently announced Power Africa initiative. She hopes that her start-up business will eventually become one of the leading producers of renewable energy in the region.
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