Professor Speirs is an entrepreneur and community builder with management experience in the Middle East, South Asia, and the United States. Steph serves on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club Foundation, Energy Allies, Vote Solar, and Clean Energy for America. She advises and keynotes on the future of climatetech and clean energy, climate solutions, community benefits, ESG, and entrepreneurship.
She most recently co -founded and ran Solstice, an enterprise dedicated to radically expanding the number of American households that can take advantage of clean energy using community- shared solar farms (acquired by MyPower/Mitsui). She previously led sales and marketing innovation initiatives in India at d.light, a solar products company powering areas without reliable electricity; spearheaded Acumen's renewable energy impact investment strategy in Pakistan; developed Middle East policy at the White House National Security Council; and field organized in seven states for the first Obama presidential campaign.
She holds a B.A. from Yale, a Master in Public Affairs (MPA) with distinction from Princeton, and an MBA from MIT with a Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She has guest lectured at MIT, Tufts, Princeton, and Boston University. Steph was selected as an EY New England Entrepreneur of the Year, US C3E Entrepreneurship Award Winner, Inc Magazine Female Founder 100, Echoing Green Climate Fellow, a Kia Revisionary, a Renewable Energy World 40 Under 40 in Solar, Elle Magazine/INCO’s US Impact Entrepreneur of the Year, a Grist 50 Fixer, a Sierra Club Face of Clean Energy, a GLG Social Impact Fellow, a Cordes Fellow, a Global Good Fund Fellow, and an Acumen Global Fellow
MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MPA, Princeton
BA, Yale University
