A solar lighting initiative by PhoScope
March 2, 2022
Have you gotten your ticket to WIL Global Gathering on March 8th? Our own Manal Kahale will present at 6:10am EST. Ring in International Women’s Day with us! If you act fast, you may still be able to get a free ticket here.
Jan 20, 2022
Maria Dautant is an award-winning architectural lighting designer and multi-disciplinary artist with a global reach, having studied in her native Venezuela then in Australia, with a professional career spanning from Sydney to New York City and now Dubai. She is currently an Associate at HLB Lighting leading their Dubai office.
As Fundraising Ambassador to Light Reach she is instrumental in bringing corporate sponsorship for our Light for Lebanon program, and is a great asset in our outreach and fundraising efforts. Welcome to the team!
Check out her work here: https://mariadautant.myportfolio.com/about-me.
April 30, 2021
Jenny Werbell, Community Outreach Coordinator, is a New York-based independent senior architectural lighting designer and a lighting educator.
As Community Outreach Coordinator, Jenny brings her extensive experience in marketing and communications, public programming coordination, fundraising event organization and committee work to spearhead Light Reach’s outreach efforts and fundraising events.
She holds a BA in Anthropology from Haverford College and a Masters in Fine Arts in Interior and Lighting Design from Parsons.
Sept. 3, 2020
We are very pleased to introduce Manal Kahale as our partner for our newest program Light for Lebanon.
Raised in Lebanon, Manal studied Landscape Architecture at the American University of Beirut and holds a master’s degree in Lighting Design from Parsons in NYC. She worked in the USA for four years before returning to Lebanon to try and bridge both worlds through lighting. However, her return to her home country was more difficult than anticipated with the unfolding economic crisis as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, and finally on the 4th of August 2020, the biggest non-nuclear explosion ever recorded. This catastrophe unlocked feelings of communal support triggered by the complete absence of any relief efforts on the part of the Lebanese government. As a result, Manal decided to use her knowledge and experience to partake in relief efforts both as an active citizen and a lighting designer.
We are thrilled by this partnership and by the opportunity to quickly and sustainably re-illuminate Beirut.
