Chebet Lesan

Chebet Lesan (born c. 1989) is a Kenyan climate activist and entrepreneur whose company BrightGreen creates charcoal briquettes from local waste materials, selling them through a network of women. Her awards include the Queen's Young Leader Award and a Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.

Early life and education Lesan was born in 1989. She attended the University of Nairobi, where she graduated in Industrial Design.

Career Lesan is a Mandela Washington Fellow. After seeing the loss of trees around Mount Kilimanjaro, she was inspired to make charcoal briquettes from biomass. Moreover, the briquettes burn with no smoke, meaning that they are less harmful than the smoke-filled hut she remembered her grandmother cooked in.

Awards Queen's Young Leader Award in 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders Africa's Business Heroes Awards 2022, 1st Prize Winner