Climate and Sustainability Scholars Seminars are dedicated to climate, sustainability, and environmental work done by Harvard students and fellows. Its goal is to embrace the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability research that can’t be confined to a single Harvard school and help like-minded people connect with each other. In Spring 2025, we will meet monthly at the Harvard University Center for the Environment located at 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge. In each session, we will have a few brief talks from different disciplines and perspectives followed by a vegan dinner and discussion.

1. Prajakta Kharkar, HKS, JFK Fellow, midcareer Master in Public Administration student
Title: Preserving Indigenous Languages Endangered by Climate Change

2. Yi Jian, Harvard Law School, Senior Fellow in US-China Food Systems
Title: Food Systems Transformation in China

3. Minghao Chen, SEAS, PhD Candidate in Computational Science and Engineering
Title: Mapping the Future of Bioenergy: Leveraging Marginal Lands and Machine Learning for Sustainable

4. Lakshmi Priya Manirangu Sobhana, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Masters in Public Health student
Title: Health Disaster Resilience Assessment: A Method of Quantifying Disaster Resilience of Healthcare Facilities, learning from India