The Fixers Podcast
The Fixers Podcast
Podcast Description
Fixers is a podcast about real people solving real problems. Hosted by high schooler Amrita Kumar, each episode features entrepreneurs, inventors, and changemakers tackling challenges around the world—from cleaning up oceans to empowering farmers. With curiosity and a drive to understand how things actually get fixed, Amrita digs into what these fixers do, how they do it, and what we can learn from their work. Fixers is for anyone who believes the world’s biggest problems are worth solving—and wants to know where to start.
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The podcast focuses on themes of social entrepreneurship, innovation, and ethical consumption. Topics explored include sustainable practices, community empowerment, and the impact of ethical sourcing, with episodes like The Fight for Fair Chocolate showcasing how companies like MOKA Origins work to improve the lives of cacao farmers through fair trade practices.
Fixers is a podcast about real people solving real problems. Hosted by high schooler Amrita Kumar, each episode features entrepreneurs, inventors, and changemakers tackling challenges around the world—from cleaning up oceans to empowering farmers. With curiosity and a drive to understand how things actually get fixed, Amrita digs into what these fixers do, how they do it, and what we can learn from their work. Fixers is for anyone who believes the world’s biggest problems are worth solving—and wants to know where to start.
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 assumption entirely. Niki also shares what surprised her most—that the community organizing skills she honed in villages across India and Bangladesh translated almost perfectly to her role as mayor of Hastings, where she made it the highest-ranked climate-smart community in New York State.
Whether you're curious about how clean energy reaches the people who need it most or want to understand finance as a tool for climate action, this conversation will change how you think about what it takes to make change stick—locally and globally.
Learn more about Arc Finance at arcfinance.org
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