The Fixers Podcast

In this episode of The Fixers Podcast, host Amrita Kumar talks with Niki Armacost, CEO of Arc Finance and former mayor of Hastings on Hudson, New York, about using microfinance to bring clean energy access to the world's poorest communities. We explore how energy loans work at the last mile, why microfinance institutions originally considered them too risky, and how Niki reframed that assumpti...

Most of us flip a switch and never think about where our electricity comes from—but what if 60% of it was nuclear power and you had no idea? That was Dr. Larkin Mosscrop's reality before she entered the nuclear field 15 years ago. In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mosscrop, a scientist who started her career as an ecologist studying climate change before transitioning into nuclear energy. S...

In this episode of The Fixers Podcast, host Amrita Kumar talks with Punit Dhandhania, founder of the Kuddle Life Foundation in India, about rebuilding ocean ecosystems one concrete block at a time. After diving on a traditional fishermen's reef made of sunken trees off the coast of Pondicherry, Amrita sits down with Punit to learn how artificial reefs are bringing marine life back to waters devast...

In this episode of The Fixers Podcast , host Amrita Kumar talks with Juan Garcia Montes, Program Manager for the +SOL Mini-Grid Initiative in Mozambique, about bringing electricity to communities that have never had it before. Juan shares 25 years of experience working in the solar industry across Africa, focusing on how solar mini-grids are transforming villages where 600 million people still liv...

In this episode of The Fixers Podcast , host Amrita Kumar interviews Dr. Alan Bigelow, Science Director at Solar Cookers International , to explore how solar cooking technology is transforming lives for 2 billion people who struggle daily to access cooking fuel. Dr. Bigelow shares powerful stories from Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, where women are trading food rations for firewood, and explains ho...

In this debut episode of The Fixers Podcast , host Amrita Kumar talks with Jeff Abella of MOKA Origins , an ethical chocolate and coffee company based in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Jeff shares how MOKA Origins is closing the gap between consumers and cacao farmers—many of whom historically earn less than a dollar a day. Listeners will learn how Jeff's work in Cameroon and beyond is helping resha...

In this trailer episode, host & high school student Amrita Kumar shares the story behind Fixers —an interview podcast about real people solving real problems. In each episode, you'll hear from people tackling everything from dirty water to deforestation. Together, we’ll explore what it takes to fix things—and how anyone, at any age, can get started. Follow Fixers for new episodes featuring...