Akol Kuan is a civ­il engi­neer­ing major and Maser­Card Foun­da­tion Schol­ar at UC Berkeley.

In RAEL, Akol is focus­ing on the design and oper­a­tion of clean ener­gy mini-grids for refugee com­mu­ni­ties, with a project focused on the UNHCR Kaku­ma Refugee Camp.  Kaku­ma is a town in north­west­ern Turkana Coun­ty, Kenya. It is the site of a UNHCR refugee camp, estab­lished in 1969. The pop­u­la­tion of Kaku­ma town was over 180,000 in 2016, hav­ing grown from around 8,000 in 1990.