Social Innovation Film Fellow
Adil Trehan is a climate storyteller creating narratives on the urgency of climate justice. He experienced the power of stories to drive social change while developing PSAs and a short documentary around climate disasters, clean energy, and community power at CNN and the Sierra Club. He volunteers for Climate Emergency Fund, a philanthropy funding youth climate activism. Adil studied Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and grew up in New York City to parents from India and Turkey.
Now a graduate student at Columbia University’s Climate School, Adil is making a short documentary about sustainable mining practices, exploring how a “minerals as a service” model can promote both development efforts in the Global South and global economic sustainability. He hopes the project will shed light on this revolutionary approach to resource management while uncovering ways to facilitate its implementation.