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Meet some of the people who collaborate with Google to benefit their communities.Karine Sokpoh
Founder and CEO, Midlands African Chamber (MAC), Nebraska
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Karine Sokpoh
Nebraska, USA
Founder and CEO, Midlands African Chamber (MAC)
The mission of MAC is to empower, connect, and champion the African and African American business communities in Nebraska and the Midwest. Karine Sokpoh is its visionary founder and CEO, and her remarkable background includes law, advocacy, and community empowerment. She is passionate about making Omaha, Nebraska, the African capital of the U.S.
Google Data Centers has supported MAC with funding for small businesses in their MAC Xcelerator, MAC Scholars, and Pitch Black programs. We have also allowed MAC to award scholarships to high school and college students pursuing studies in accounting, finance, law, and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
âGoogle Data Centers has significantly impacted our communities of entrepreneurs as its support has enabled our MAC Xcelerator, MAC Scholars, and Pitch Black programs to thrive.ââWe believe that the human connection and stories we bring inspire Google and its employees to reach even greater heights, knowing that their innovations have a real, impactful purpose.â
KARINE SOKPOH
Founder and CEO, Midlands African Chamber (MAC)
Phoebe Chen
Founder, Taiwan Green Energy for Charity Association (TGECA), Taiwan
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Phoebe Chen
Taiwan
Founder, Taiwan Green Energy for Charity Association (TGECA)
The Taiwan Green Energy for Charity Association (TGECA) was established in 2018 to promote green energy and carbon reduction charity models.
Its founder, Phoebe (Hui-Ping) Chen, a sociologist and social entrepreneur, is dedicated to promoting âsustainable energy for all.â To ensure that no one is left behind in the energy transition process, particularly vulnerable groups, she established TGECA and created an innovative green energy charity model. This model focuses on installing solar photovoltaic systems and replacing energy-consuming equipment in social welfare institutions, helping to reduce the climate impact and energy vulnerability faced by these groups due to global warming.
To promote this transition, TGECA launched the âGreen Well 100+â Green Energy Charity Initiative in 2021. Additionally, in April 2024, Phoebe further established the âTaiwan Gender Network for Net Zero.â Through expanded networking and education empowerment, TGECA aims to mobilize more stakeholders, especially women and young people, to join them in promoting climate justice and energy welfare services, ensuring that all people have a sustainable future.
âGoogleâs collaboration with TGECA led to the construction of a citizen power plant in Changhua (Beidou Township), which began operation in 2024.â
PHOEBE CHEN
Founder, Taiwan Green Energy for Charity Association (TGECA)
Jeroen de Schutter
General Director, Agrotheek, Netherlands
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Jeroen de Schutter
Middenmeer, Netherlands
General Director, Agrotheek
Agrotheek is a nonprofit that teaches farmers how to work with innovations to get healthy crops and good income with lower costs and higher yield. Agrotheek's general director, Jeroen de Schutter, saw an opportunity in the land outside our Middenmeer, Netherlands, data center. He approached us about cultivating the land to use as a learning field to demonstrate new innovations to farmers.
At the end of the season, Agrotheek sells the crops and uses the profits to support the institutes in the community, like the local football team and choir.
âDuring the season when crops were growing, people from the Google data center liked what they saw and came once a month to view our fields. If we continue next year, we can grow tulips. Itâs a beautiful garden in front of the data center.âJeroen de Schutter
General Director, Agrotheek
Pia Quiroz
Googler, Area Security Manager at Data Centers in Latin America, Chile
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Pia Quiroz
Quilicura, Chile
Googler, Area Security Manager at Data Centers in Latin America
As an area security manager for Google Data Centers, Pia Quiroz is responsible for the physical security of our operations throughout Latin America, including at our Quilicura, Chile, data center. She loves many aspects of her role. She says, âI feel very lucky to be part of the amazing team that makes sure that the information of all our users, including our own information, is safe and secure [because of our] access to cutting-edge technology.â
Pia also loves that through Google Data Centers, she has had the opportunity to work with people from different countries and cultures. She is also grateful that she has been able to help make a difference in the community. She has participated in programs that have expanded opportunities at local schools, helped plant trees for an urban forest in Santiago, Chile, and led activities for the improvement of housing for the elderly. She reflects on how these projects created opportunities for the region. âPeople with less access to technology [get to] see and experience what a big tech company can do to improve the lives of many different people.â
âIn the past few years, Iâve seen how Chile is becoming a globalized country. The data center employs people from different countries, which creates a really nice culture of learning, embracing differences and diversity to complement local knowledge, creating a really rich work environment.â
PIA QUIROZ
Googler, Area Security Manager at Data Centers in Latin America
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