Dr. Maureen Kinyua, P.E, Founder, Usafi Technologies

Dr. Maureen Kinyua is the Founder and Sustainability Educator at Usafi Tech LLC, a climate education and leadership platform that provides strategy, structure and community for professionals, institutions (municipalities, utilities, agencies), and community leaders who want to help themselves and their communities create a cleaner planet. With over 15 years of experience advancing clean water, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure solutions across the U.S. and internationally, her career began as a Field Engineer designing waste-to-energy systems for farming communities. She has since led climate-smart water infrastructure initiatives in the Washington, D.C. metro region, advised on state-level environmental policies e.g., California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), and worked with global partners in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Kenya, Brazil, Prague, and more. A former professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Davis, Dr. Kinyua taught sustainability and engineering courses bridging science, policy, and practice. She is a licensed Professional Engineer (Maryland) and holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of South Florida.