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Forbes 50 Over 50
UC Berkeley School of Public Health alumna Dr. Laura Stachel, CEO of Berkeley-based We Care Solar, has been named to
The list features 50 women, winnowed down from an initial pool of 10,000 nominees, who are achieving their biggest career achievements after the age of 50. Stachel is in good company: the list also includes Vice President Kamala Harris, television producer Shonda Rimes, and Nobel Laureate and UC Berkeley Professor Jennifer Doudna.
When a back injury ended Dr. Stachel’s career as an OB-GYN in her mid-40s, she enrolled at Berkeley Public Health, where she received her MPH in 2006 and DrPH in 2020. While studying at Berkeley, she traveled to Northern Nigeria in 2008 to study ways to lower maternal mortality in hospitals. She witnessed difficult conditions in public health facilities, including sporadic electricity that impaired maternity and surgical care.
A longtime OB-GYN whose clinical career was ended by a devastating back injury, 50 Over 50 listee Dr. Laura reconfigured herself as a social entrepreneur one whose company, We Care Solar, is using solar electricity to make births safer around the world.
A Power Couple Finds the Spark Once Again
Laura Stachel and Hal Aronson, who created the Solar Suitcase, had a Jewish wedding ceremony in 2000, but they never had a legal one. Twenty years later, it finally seemed time to be married.
Hal Aronson and Dr. Laura Stachel were married Nov. 4 at Redwood Park in Oakland, Calif. Their children took part, with Rachel Aronson officiating and Ari’el Stachel and Atalya Stachel Yeshayahu holding the huppah.
By Alix Wall
Dec. 18, 2020
When Hal Aronson walked Dr. Laura Stachel back to the hospital after their first meeting in March 1999, neither wanted to say goodbye. They weren’t at all each other’s type, yet their chemistry was instant. They hugged.