About Rishi
Rishi Gurjar is a senior at American High School and will attend Cornell University in the fall. He leads Beyond Terra, a nonprofit aimed at restoring and protecting biodiversity, and chairs the Sierra Club Southern Alameda County Conservation Committee. He is involved in efforts to bring climate literacy to students across California through work at the Sierra Club, ClimateScience, and the Fremont Unified School District Climate Literacy Network. Rishi also researches anthropogenic impact at Stanford and MIT.
We’re share a powerful story by Rishi Gurjar, an incoming freshman at Cornell University, who has pioneered climate literacy efforts in his school district, leading to the decision by the district to incorporate environmental education in school campuses.