The women selected this year were chosen from a pool of more than 75 deserving applicants — each boasting unique strengths worthy of this list and many other honors.
While most people lay awake in bed, it’s due to bumps in the night, personal anxiety, or the fear of the boogeyman. For Kimberly Llewellyn, the boogeyman was never her concern. No, her kryptonite was the amount of energy being wasted in the built environment.
“As a young adult, I literally couldn't sleep at night for worrying about unbridled resource consumption and waste generation,” said Llewellyn, who now serves as a senior product manager with Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US. “This constant anxiety motivated me to go back to school for environmental engineering. I find contributing to the development of solutions that are equitable, practical and result in healthy, efficient buildings to be very satisfying.”