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Solight Design is striving to change the way we light our world. Powered by the sun. Thoughtfully designed.
This week, Girls That Create host Erin Prather Stafford welcomes Alice Min Soo Chun, the founder and CEO of Solight Design and the inventor of the SolarPuff. Chun's journey began in South Korea as a young girl and continued in upstate New York. Growing up, she learned origami and how a simple paper is a gateway to possibilities.
Always creative and fascinated by design, structure, and forms, Chun studied architecture at Penn State, where she obtained her undergraduate degree and earned her masters in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
With emerging trends in material technology resulting in smarter, lighter, faster, sustainable fabrication, Chun started to sew solar panels to fabric as early experiments for harnessing solar energy with softer, malleable material. She became focused on solar technology and finding ways to create clean energy solutions upon learning her son Quinn was diagnosed with asthma.
While teaching as a professor of architecture and material technology at Columbia University, Chun created early prototypes of solar lights with her students. Still unsatisfied and fueled by her passion for helping the underserved, she invented the world's only self-inflatable, portable solar light, eliminating the need for a mouth nozzle. This ensured a healthy, sanitary method of inflating. Chun named this invention the SolarPuff and conducted field testing in Haiti for three years.
In 2015, she launched Solight Design and initiated a Kickstarter program with unprecedented results. Chun won numerous awards, including the US Patent Award for Humanity, and her products have been exhibited at MOMA, the Modern Museum of Art in New York City.
Connect with Chun at solight-design.com. Follow Solight on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
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About Girls That Create
Host Erin Prather Stafford launched Girls That Create to support the parents and caregivers of creative girls while encouraging greater female representation across the arts. Learn more at girlsthatcreate.com and follow Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and YouTube for more information.
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