Aditi Varshneya is an Oakland-based organizer and immigrant primarily raised in China and India. She joined CEJA as Climate Justice Manager in 2025. Aditi brings over five years of alliance-based expertise from her time at the Global Alliance of Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA), where she provided capacity-building and coordination support to a network of grassroots organizations across the United States and Canada advancing the movement for a just transition to zero waste. Her prior professional experience spans grassroots community organizing and advocacy on topics spanning green building retrofits to extreme heat at WE ACT for Environmental Justice. She has staffed a community board in the Bronx and conducted research for a university institute on transit equity, as well as a think tank on urban ocean conservation. Aditi is an alumna of New York University, where she earned a BA in Metropolitan Studies with an honors thesis that contrasted frontline community and government responses to Hurricane Sandy. She also received an MPA in Public & Nonprofit Management from NYU, completing a capstone consultancy that improved partnership between a school and its alumni of color association seeking to implement racial justice reforms. In her spare time, Aditi enjoys spending time reading, cooking, listening to podcasts, and and organizing her community.
