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- The Best Gift Is Light in Your Heart This Valentine’s - Intv. W/ Alice Chun
- Share the Love of Light This Valentine’s - Best Gifts That Help Others
I would love to connect you with Alice Chun, inventor and founder of Solight-Design, or see how we can go about getting her/her lights featured with you for Valentine’s Day? Alice recently had a full feature with Good Morning America and MSNBC that I think you’ll find extremely heartfelt, and a total tear jerker. I have also placed her full bio below for more insight.
“Keep fighting with light in your heart.”
Valentine’s Day gives us a chance to celebrate love, whether it’s with someone special or yourself. Love is love, and by recognizing such we have the opportunity to spread happiness, goodness, and self-respect to those around us. Gifts are the start and by promoting gifts that do good for others is a true way to share passion this holiday.
Alice Chun started Solight-Design to help families without light. Now, she has traveled all the way to Ukraine to share light to many of the children’s hospitals in Lviv and Krakow who are without electricity and power. By shopping Alice’s Solight-Design, people can support those who don’t get to go to a fancy dinner this year.
About Alice:
Alice is an author, TedX speaker, and female inventor of Solight-Design and SEEU95.
She has been featured on Good Morning America, MSNBC, Marie Claire’s Powertrip 2022, The Skimm, The Story Exchange, Fast Company, The New York Times, Cheddar, Huffington Post, Heavy, Men’s Journal, and was nominated for USPTO Patents for Humanitarian Winner in 2018. Alice was nominated as Forbes 50 Over 50 recognizable women of 2022. Alice was also recently featured in the new Apple TV+ show ‘Gutsy’, alongside other female rock stars such as Jane Goodan, Wanda Sykes, Meg Thee Stallion, Kim Kardashian, and others.
ABOUT ALICE:
As a little girl growing up in Seoul, Korea and then upstate New York, Alice spent many days learning how a simple fold can become structured. Origami forms were taught to her by her mother, who also taught Alice how to sew her own clothes. Always creative, fascinated by design, structure and forms, Alice studied architecture at Penn State where she obtained her undergraduate degree and went on to earn her Masters in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania.
With emerging trends in material technology resulting in smarter, lighter, faster, sustainable fabrication, Alice 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 in Architecture and Material Technology at Columbia University, Alice created early prototypes of solar lights with her students. Still not satisfied, and fueled by her passion for helping the underserved, Alice invented the world’s only self-inflatable, portable solar light, eliminating the need for a mouth nozzle. This ensured a healthy, sanitary method to inflate. Alice named this invention the SolarPuff™ and conducted three years of field testing in Haiti. In 2015 she launched Solight Design and initiated a KickStarter program with unprecedented results. She went on to win 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.
Alice is an author, TedX speaker, and female inventor of Solight-Design and SEEU95.
She has been featured on Good Morning America, MSNBC, Marie Claire’s Powertrip 2022, The Skimm, The Story Exchange, Fast Company, The New York Times, Cheddar, Huffington Post, Heavy, Men’s Journal, and was nominated for USPTO Patents for Humanitarian Winner in 2018. Alice was nominated as Forbes 50 Over 50 recognizable women of 2022. Alice was also recently featured in the new Apple TV+ show ‘Gutsy’, alongside other female rock stars such as Jane Goodan, Wanda Sykes, Meg Thee Stallion, Kim Kardashian, and others.
