Jennifer Gurecki specializes in designing creative and market-based approaches to building resilient communities and cultivating female leadership. She is the co-founder and CEO of Coalition Snow, the world’s first women’s ski and snowboard company. #sisterhoodofshred

She also founded Zawadisha, a social enterprise that provides small loans for renewable energy and water products to rural Kenya women through an innovative model that is soundly pro-poor, pro-woman, and pro-environment. #investinwomen

Prior to Coalition Snow and Zawadisha, she was the co-owner of a white water rafting outfitter based in Lake Tahoe that focused on multi-day wilderness expeditions. She also worked for UC Berkeley as the director of a wilderness-based literacy and leadership program for underserved youth. She has a master’s degree from Prescott College and was most recently delivered her first TEDx talk in January 2016.