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Veronica Johnson is a single mother of three and a resident of a Denver Housing Authority apartment building. Veronica was working in the kitchen at a Denver Public School, but wasn't satisfied with her job. She wanted work with her hands, building things that people needed. Veronica started looking into classes offered at the Denver Housing Authority, and found GRID's Solar Training Academy, a two week introductory solar course that is designed to provide a pipeline to employment in the solar industry for low-income qualified Denver metro area residents. 

Earlier this month I took an incredible trip with GRID to install a 1.2 kW off-grid solar system in Nepal's Chitwan National Park. Often in the clean energy space, unless you are a developer or installer yourself, you can feel fairly far removed from the technology and often our knowledge of the technical side of the business can be intangible and learned only from drawings and maintenance reports. I wanted to get my hands dirty and help build a system from start to finish.