Ms. Aarti Arora

Aarti is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware. Her work focuses on how human migration and labor affect the sustainability of food systems under climate change. She is a Breaking Barriers Fellow at the University of Delaware’s College of Earth Ocean and Environment and an ORISE Fellow in the SciNET Scientific Computing office in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service.

Prior to beginning her PhD, Aarti was an ORISE Fellow in the USDA’s Office of the Chief Scientist. There she worked on measuring and communicating the impact of the department’s scientific work in the budgetary process and she led implementation of the USDA Science and Research Strategy. Prior to joining USDA, Aarti worked at NASA on their International Water Strategy, and on a NASA DEVELOP project measuring soil organic carbon using the Soil Moisture Active Passive satellite. She received her M.A. in Climate and Society from Columbia University’s Climate School and her B.A. in Archaeology from Boston University.