Speakers
Dr. Suraj Yengde
Harvard | OXFORD
Dr. Yengde is currently a W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. His prior appointments were Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a non-resident fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and was part of the founding team of the Initiative for Institutional Anti-Racism and Accountability (IARA) at Harvard University.
Dr. Suraj Yengde is also a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford.
He has studied on four continents (Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America) and is India’s first Dalit Ph.D. holder from an African university (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg).
Originally from Nanded, India, he is an International Human Rights attorney by qualification from India and the UK.
Dr. KYLE HEYBLOM
Earth System Scientist | Planette AI
Kyle specializes in climate dynamics and climate data analysis, and brings in additional expertise in hydrologic cycle change. He is also frighteningly efficient at tinkering with, building, and running Earth system models on high performance computing architectures. In his spare time, Kyle enjoys the outdoors and running extremely long distances in the wilderness.