Get ready for a wild ride on the “solar coaster” with our first guest Maria Kingery. Maria is the cofounder and chief impact officer at Raleigh-based Southern Energy Management (SEM). She’s a clean tech pioneer who helped North Carolina become the second-largest solar state in the country. Maria shares with us her incredible journey building a positive-impact B corporation with her husband Bob. This episode is part of our first season on leading female innovators in Durham, Raleigh, and other small cities in the Southeast.