Laurie Guevara-Stone

Laurie Guevara-Stone is the international program manager at SEI. She has a Master's Degree in Energy Engineering from the University of Colorado. She has done extensive work in Latin America with numerous development organizations. Laurie is fluent in Spanish and over the past twenty years has conducted projects in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Mexico and Ecuador implementing photovoltaics, solar cooking and water distillation. Laurie has been researching and promoting renewable energy activities in Cuba since 1996, and is one of the nation's experts on renewable energy policy and practice in Cuba. She began SEI's Women's Photovoltaics program, and organizes and instructs the Renewable Energy for Developing World workshops.

Laurie has authored numerous technical articles for publications including Home Power Magazine, Solar Today Magazine and Mother Earth News. She lives in a PV powered, passive solar straw bale house she designed herself.