Ashka Naik
Second Nature
Ashka Naik is the Director of ACUPCC Initiatives at Second Nature, where she leads various programs with a mission to advance leadership and institutional capacity of higher education institutions to champion climate action and campus sustainability.
Before joining Second Nature, she worked at the Harvard University's Office for Sustainability. Ashka received her Master's degree in Product Design, with a focus on Sustainable Design, from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (U.K.) and Bachelor's degree in Interior Architecture from the Center for Environmental Planning and Technology (India).
During the last 10 years, she has worked extensively in India and the U.K. on various sustainability projects. Following her passion for sustainability in the developing countries, she co-founded a sustainable design company Artha Studio in India in 2007, which leverages the field of architectural design to bridge the issues of environmental justice and the built environment.