Suzanne Singer

Suzanne Singer is a Diné mechanical engineer and advocate for clean energy solutions in Native American communities. She did her graduate work in microscale heat transfer and thermoelectric devices at UC Berkeley. She has also worked for Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her other program, which includes the off-grid solar photovoltaic (PV) workforce, provides essential skills for maintaining solar energy systems.

Early life and education Suzanne Singer grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, just off the Navajo reservation, where her parents had been raised in a rural setting without electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing. STEM education helped them pull themselves out of poverty into careers, and their example of hard work and perseverance inspired Singer from an early age. She worked as a staff engineer and post-doc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Tribal Energy Program. and has received notable honors, including the 2019 U.S. Clean Energy Education Empowerment (C3E) Entrepreneurship Award and the 2021 Echoing Green. Another special recognition included her being recognized at the 8th Annual C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium, with a financial award to support her word in Native Renewables.

Singer was included on Lydia Jennings' list of inspirational indigenous scientists created for the nonprofit, AISES.