Garima Raheja is a PhD candidate at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, studying atmospheric impacts of urban air pollution and its disproportionate impacts on public health. Having grown up between New Delhi, India, and the San Francisco Bay Area, Garima is passionate about environmental justice through climate action in the service of those most severely impacted.
EDUCATION
BS, Civil and Environmental Engineering - University of California, Berkeley
BA, Data Science - University of California, Berkeley
AWARDS
Regents' and Chancellor's Scholarship, given to top 2% of undergraduates at UC Berkeley (4 year award)
Cal Alumni Leadership Award, for exceptional service and leadership in the Berkeley community (4x recipient)
Koret Research Scholarship Recipient, for funded independent research outside of UC Berkeley (2x recipient)
Regents’ and Chancellor’s Research Scholarship Recipient, for exceptional research proposals by Regents Scholars at UC Berkeley
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Berkeley Environmental Air Quality & CO2 Network (BEACO2N) - University of California, Berkeley / Ron Cohen Lab
Environmental Equity & Air Modelling - University of Washington / Julian Marshall Lab
Atmospheric Science - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa / Alison Nugent Lab
Total Carbon Column Observation Network - NASA Ames Research Center
Air Quality Monitoring - NASA Alpha Jet Atmospheric Experiment / Bay Area Air Quality Management District
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
US Department of State - Air Quality Fellow
American Geophysical Union - Community Science Fellow
Maui Nui Botanical Gardens - Native Endangered Plant Species Seed Banking Fellow
NOAA Fisheries - Field Biologist
Exploratorium - Museum Docent
Trivia Night at Kip’s - Host
LEADERSHIP
American Geophysical Union - Fall Conference Team - Art and Science Section Lead
Bay Area Environmentally Aware Consulting Network (BEACN) - President
Code for Berkeley (a chapter of Code for America) - Co-Founder & Community Advocate / Policy Wonk
University of California Student Association (representing 285,000 students across 9 campuses) - Environmental Sustainability Officer
UC Berkeley Associated Students - Director of Environmental Education Policy
TEACHING / EDUCATION / OUTREACH
The Greenlining Institute - Equity Lab Organizer
Keeping Students Engaged in Science / Oakland Unified School District - Teaching Workshop Leader
Leadership High School - Volunteer Tutor
Kaniela Ing for Congress - Field Volunteer
Social Network Data Science (LS88) - Teaching Assistant
Sunrise Movement - Data Team
Publications
The AGU Art and Science Community - AGU FM 2019
Estimating CO2 Emissions Using Real and Simulated Total Column Observations - AGU FM 2018
Integrating Satellite, Aircraft, and Ground-Based Observations to Improve a GHG Inventory Network - AGU FM 2016
Imagining CO2: development and assessment of interactive visualizations for high resolution greenhouse gas observations collected by BEACO2N- AGU FM 2016
INVITED PRESENTATIONS, ORGANIZED EVENTS & IN THE MEDIA
MIT Technology Review - Asian-Americans are using Slack groups to explain racism to their parents
New York Times - Swipe-Through Activist Guides Are the New Zines
Berkeley Data Science - Graduate Feature - Garima Raheja
Cook-In - Learn How to Interrupt Systemic Racism with Zahra Billoo and Sohla El-Waylly
South Asians for Black Lives - Core Organizer Feature
AGU Community Science Fellows - New Cohort Orientation (60+ attendees)
South Asian Allyship - Privilege and Positionality Panel (200+ attendees)
Shared Air Podcast - Environmental Justice
Contact
Email - ORCID - Google Scholar - LinkedIN - Twitter