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Impact Entrepreneur | Chief of Staff | Innovation manager @Bosch 🚀 | To change the world we start inside. 💖
With the @NY Climate Week kicking off this week, I thought this was an opportune moment to share a little secret project so far. I have been doing a ton of reflecting on my career in the last weeks and months and see a huge opportunity in moving entrepreneurial talent and resources to solve some of the big challenges we are facing with climate adaptation, mitigation, and engineering innovation to stay within our planetary boundaries. I feel this is a means to work toward eco-social equity. As Dr. Jonathan Foley puts it - Cliamte Solutions fix equity. Three weeks ago, I was accepted into the Climatebase Fellowship program this fall as part of Cohort 6. The 12-week program is a Climate career accelerator, full of incredible content from Neil Yeoh of OnePointFive, keynotes by thought-leaders in the space Like Sophie Purdom from Planeteer Capital, inspiring sessions on impact capital for zebras from Claire Raffel and Tim Freundlich, expert panels, and so many wonderful driven community members sharing inspiring capstone projects. Loved the talk with Shreenath R. and David P. on starting out to build a start-up in the space. Loved Dr. @Thomas Hale take on the policy work from Oxford towards the long Climate challenges. I have begun to realize the optimism, creativity, stories and narratives, grit and genius of exceptional people across different walks of life, coming together to solve problems. I learnt ideas from California's energy distribution system to the global south leaps in Agtech. I am recognizing my relentless desire and excitement to learn and wanted to share the opportunities where we can do things that matter most. The science, the technology, the underlying business incentives, policy frameworks and grass movements are perspectives that are filling gaps in my knowledge towards the climate phenomenon. Beyond all - more than anything, it is the community that is making this experience phenomenal. Evan Hynes, Kendall Jenkins, Vesselina Apostolova, David P., Magda Kufrej (she/her), Thank you for creating an open space. The people from the cohort the scientists & researchers, communication experts, consultants, policymakers, journalists, engineers, meteorologists, designers, and architects who bring in perspectives from across the world, and their varied definitions of sustainability to what it means to care for the people and the planet is truly nourishing my thinking! I hope to share this with all of you. One thing I know for sure: We ought to DREAM BIG when it comes to Climate equity. We need entrepreneurial hearts beating for the Climate eco-social equity. We need to stray away from what exists to create the change. 🚀 Looking forward to sharing more as we go along! hashtag #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaption #Climateinvesting #VCtowardsecosocialequity #impactinvesting #optimism #climatecommunity #NYClimatecommunity