Misbath is a Beninese, Malian, Togolese and French PhD candidate in Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health. Her research aims to characterize the distribution of health benefits resulting from energy transitions away from fossil fuels both in the US and in international settings. To do this, she relies on exposure modeling, epidemiology, and qualitative methods. Her goal is to generate policy-relevant findings to support equity-driven sustainable development initiatives. Prior to joining Mailman, she obtained an MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and conducted work at the intersection of climate change and health in Mongolia, Tunisia, and Alaska. She is a 2021 Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Fellow, a 2021 Microsoft Research PhD Fellow, and a recipient of the 2021 Young, Gifted, and Green 40 Under 40 award. She is also a WE ACT member and a dedicated horseback rider.

Garima Raheja is a PhD student at Columbia University. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a BA in Data Science (with an emphasis on Sustainable Development and Engineering). At Columbia, she researches air quality and climate change through environmental justice lenses in urban environments. Garima currently serves as the US State Department Air Quality Fellow, American Geophysical Union Community Science Fellow, and the AGU Art and Science Section Co-Lead. Previously, Garima has worked with NASA, NOAA, the University of Washington, the University of Hawaii, UC San Diego, the Exploratorium Science Museum, Code for America, Maui Nui Botanical Gardens, and led 100+ consultants in the Bay Area Environmentally Aware Consulting Network on 20+ social and environmental responsibility projects. Garima is a recipient of the prestigious Columbia University Dean’s Fellowship, the UC Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellors’ Scholarship, the Koret Research Scholarship, and a four-time recipient of the Cal Berkeley Alumni Leadership Award. Her work has been featured recently at the National Academies of Science, and in The New York Times and the MIT Technology Review.

Prineet belongs to East Panjab. Prior to moving to the US to pursue graduate education in Environment Studies, she spent 12 years producing and researching non-fiction content across India for international production houses and channels like BBC, PBS, Channel 4, Discovery etc. Her master's research incorporates decolonial methods to explore the systemic ecological degradation of East Panjab and the simultaneous marginalisation of the Sikhs. Her research interests lie at the intersection of environmental history, critical environmental justice, political ecology, traditional ecological knowledge, pastoral-peasant cultures, ethnicity and nationalism, genocide and inter-generational trauma, documentary filmmaking and mixed media arts . She is currently in recovery from what she describes as 'affective death produced by American alienation'.

Hamidah Naishur Nakimuli is a graduate student in the Energy Technology and Policy program at Humboldt State University, California and a member of the Energy, Environment, and Society Research Collective. As part of her graduate program, Hamidah is researching the information flow amongst academic researchers, project donors, and practitioners in the renewable energy industry, with focus on the Improved Cook Stove sector in Uganda. The goal of her research is to identify information gaps in clean cooking initiatives and the effects that has on the sector in developing more impactful, market specific Clean Cooking technologies.

Amin is a recent graduate of Humboldt State University's Energy Technology & Policy master's program, where his thesis explored the technical potential for renewable electricity generation within Humboldt County and community perceptions of the possible resources. During this time, he was a fellow at Humboldt State University’s Schatz Energy Research Center, where he researched Humboldt County’s offshore wind resource and the effects of state and federal transportation fuel decarbonization policies. Prior to this, Amin worked as a product design engineer at Apple and Sensata Technologies after receiving a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Amin is currently a Utility Engineer at the California Public Utility Commission's Public Advocates Office where his work focuses on steering policy towards better rates for residential and small business customers while considering reliability and climate goals.

I am a part of the Environmental Systems- Energy, Technology and Policy program at Humboldt State University (HSU). I am from Southern California, more specifically Ramona, which is a rural town of eastern San Diego County. Like many from California, wildfires are something that we grew up around and experienced the effects first hand. Therefore, for my thesis I chose to analyze air quality data within a high-risk wildfire area of San Diego County and also conduct interviews to explore the knowledge that local community members had about air quality measures. I was also a part of the offshore wind team, with emphasis in environmental permitting, at the Schatz Energy Research Center at HSU.