Stephanie Speirs

About Stephanie Speirs

Stephanie was born in Hawaii to a father who was adopted from China and a mother who emigrated from Korea to the United States. Stephanie's mother escaped an abusive marriage and raised her three kids alone. She instilled in Stephanie a reverence for hard work, and Stephanie threw herself into school and jobs to help pay for expenses at home.

Stephanie went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Yale University, a master's degree in public affairs with distinction from Princeton University, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management with a certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Stephanie's education and career have been guided by a belief in the power of community to drive progress. 

She founded Future in Bloom, a media studio about intelligent solutions for a thriving world. Steph teaches climate entrepreneurship at Yale School of Management and is a Resident Fellow at the Center for Business and the Environment. She keynotes and advises philanthropists, investors, and companies on the future of climate tech and clean energy. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club Foundation, Vote Solar, and on the Credit Committee of the Community Investment Guarantee Pool. 

After deploying clean energy solutions in India and Pakistan, Steph most recently cofounded and was CEO of Solstice, an enterprise dedicated to radically expanding the number of American households that can take advantage of clean energy using community-shared solar farms (acquired by Mitsui). Steph previously developed Middle East policy as the youngest-ever director at the White House National Security Council and field organized in seven states for the first Obama presidential campaign.