As an environmental specialist, Riddhi works across a portfolio of climate change mitigation and adaptation projects ensuring that environmental and social frameworks are integrated from design, build and implementation. One of her university research projects explored collecting data that indicated climate change in her home country. Working with the St. Maarten Nature Foundation, she compiled her research by conducting PADI certified scuba-diving to gather data on water toxicology, coral reefs, and marine biodiversity. Riddhi built on her scientific studies to apply her talents to real-world issues at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. for six months. In her free time, Riddhi works as a project coordinator for Environmental Protection in the Caribbean on a data collection project titled, ‘Why Do We Litter, Sint Maarten?’. She has also worked with the St. Maarten Pride Foundation (a local environmental NGO) and was instrumental in passing environmental legislation by voicing concerns from a youth perspective to parliament and Holland’s Royal Family. She believes in the power of cooperation and shared responsibility and is interested in understanding strategic methods of starting a climate justice movement, how to reach marginalized populations and increase engagement.