thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 10月15日 23時56分

By @rubensalgadoescudero //
“It’s important for us to be role models for women, and more importantly, Native American women who are still very underrepresented in the sciences.” -KeNeda Randall, project manager and engineering Senior student.

Last year I had the honor of partnering with @アレックス・オノルド ’s @honnoldfoundation and working with these inspiring, intelligent, and fierce Navajo women. As engineering students at Ft. Luis College in Colorado (The school with the highest rate of graduating Native American students in the sciences across the US) they aim to use their passion & newly developed skills to give back to their community. For the last school-year, they learned to design solar-panel array systems. Most of these students grew up on the Navajo Reservation across New Mexico and Arizona, many without access to electricity or running water.
During their Spring Break, instead of taking a week off as most students do across the country, these women spent the last week installing solar power systems in homes within their own communities in the Eastern Agency on the Navajo Nation.
Everyday is Indigenous People’s Day. It’s time to champion initiatives like this and the women who are leading the world by example.
This is a work in progress chapter of my ongoing project “Solar Portraits” in the Americas. @insidenatgeo

Caption Photo: Residents of Ojo Encino, New Mexico on the Eastern Agency of the Navajo Nation meet at the local Chapter House, which uses solar panels for its main source of energy. Serving as a government building and community center, Chapter President, Gloria Chiquito, oversees a counsel meeting where energy policy and resources are reviewed. Since the early 1900's, land leasing for oil and gas production has been an important source of revenue on the Navajo Nation. The royalties earned provide necessary economic stimulus to communities with extremely limited resources and support public services, education and infrastructure. The Environmental Defense Fund has recently released a report stating that oil and gas companies waste approximately 5.2% of the gas extracted, 65% higher than the national average, which results in around $8

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