Team

Kristen McBrien has joined the WSS team as the Minnesota Program Liaison. She is a chemistry teacher at the School of Environmental Studies in Apple Valley, MN and during the summer of 2019, was part of the first Minnesota Solar Suitcase teacher cohort. She has been teaching the WSS curriculum and building Solar Suitcases every fall since. She has worked with us on teacher training in Florida and Minnesota and has provided invaluable feedback on curriculum and program design. She is a solar leader at her school, helping to facilitate and host an educational community event to celebrate the newly acquired solar panels on her school as part of the Minnesota Solar on Schools bill. Students were able to showcase the Solar Suitcase.

In her position as Minnesota Program Liaison Kristen provides support to Minnesota teachers as they implement the WSS curriculum and build suitcases with their students. She is available as a resource who can answer questions or help with ideas for use of student built classroom Solar Suitcases.

Away from school and We Share Solar work, Kristen is a keen gardener with a home full of preserved fruit and vegetables. She lives with her husband and two teenage sons.