Rajul Pandya
Professor, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers CollegeExecutive Director, Global Futures Education Lab, Arizona State University

Raj Pandya is a professor of practice in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and the executive director of the Global Futures Education Lab at Arizona State University. Before that, he served as vice president of Community Science and founding director of Thriving Earth Exchange at AGU. Pandya invites everyone—especially people from communities who have been historically excluded—to help build shared sustainable futures where people and nature thrive together. His work focuses on making the sciences more participatory, exploring how community participation contributes to scientific innovation and societal relevance, and helping sciences and universities be good community partners.