Anvi Anand

• Columbia University Eco Ambassador Summer Camp & Solutions Lab (Summer 2023 & 2024): Developed two storymap websites on ArcGIS through data collection, research, and sustainable advocacy:

1. Climate Justice: Wars Inflicting People and Planet (SDGs 4, 13 & 16)

2. Rippling Effect of Microplastics: Northeast’s Danger (SDGs 3, 6, 14)

• Mentored in 2025 Age of Globalization Eco Ambassador Course
• Presented Eco Ambassador work on Climate Justice at XVIII World Congress 2024 alongside professors from UNESCO, Albany University, and Columbia University
• Moderated Case Study Session for Smithsonian Women Environmental Leadership on Eco Ambassador role and future sustainability goals
• Delivered talk on ecology and civics at Summit Rotary Club connecting to Rotary principles
• Moderated Earth Month Facebook Live discussing packaging policies with founder of The Simple Fare.

• Fundraised $740+ towards Accelerator Fund, a grass-roots project around the SDGs held in Africa to teach women green entrepreneurship, empowering sustainable agriculture and nutrition, and teaching digital literacy to the youth, in regions like Ghana, Benin, & Cameroon. Selected to be a part of the SDG Youth Advocate program.
• Co-author in the Global Citizenship Toolkit, in partnership with Ban Ki-Moon Foundation and Columbia University, which is a paper with different domains and proposals for students and adults to use for Global Citizenship Education in schools and outside of school events (ready to be published)

• Interning at Emory University's Department of Chemistry
• Working on the synthesis of peptides and small molecules in organic chemistry with undergraduate and PHD students
• Experience working with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and Mass Spectrometer (MS) technology to verify peptides and the existence of their chemical compounds
• Studying and experimenting with FDP/MP lysine modifications in the lab

• Educated student delegates via club curriculum and filled in as president when absent.
• Promoted club at fair through Instagram posts and merchandise design, aiming to increase funds from $8k to $15k.
• Engaged in Model UN conferences, targeting growth of Lawrenceville MUN events from 3 to 5 annually.
• Facilitated mock MUN sessions, authored background guides, and organized assembly and crisis committees.

• Written and edited 20+ articles on breakthrough scientific innovations of CRISPR, theories of the Dark Big Bang, competing technologies of Apple’s Globalstar vs SpaceX’s Starlink, and more
• Edited articles for students within the publication’s inter-school network of 25 chapters around the world, with 50,000+ website views
• Providing grammatical and content suggestions before selecting articles to be published on the website

• Hosted and taught 2 sessions of a virtual paid camp to students K-8 on the essentials of public speaking and the art of MUN, where students applied their skills to a final MUN conference at the end of the camp (~first year of the camp, will expand to more locations coming summer)
• First session—students from New Jersey
• Second session—students from India

• Part of LSR’s executive board, editing articles every term for Science Features writers.
• Written articles on AI’s usage in medicine, the dangers of microplastics in water to marine life and human health, and other science features.