Amogh Chaubey

Senior Sustainability Intern

Office of Sustainability

Amogh is a senior studying computer science and mathematics. This is his third year as a sustainability intern, and like many of his peers, has grown up naturally interested in the environment and sustainability. He can trace his interest in the environment back to catching fireflies in his backyard when he was younger, he believes that his climate journey started out in high school where he helped organize climate strikes in Indianapolis and worked with the U.S. Youth Climate Strike movement. He also spent time working in labs that were conducting local environmental research at Purdue. Amogh knew that he wanted to make a bigger contribution to the push for sustainability and zero emissions, which is why he applied to work at the Office of Sustainability. Nowadays, his greatest areas of interest in sustainability are green technology, climate data analysis, environmental policy, and environmental justice. He is interested in the nuanced world of sustainability — what emissions data actually looks like, the various sources of those emissions, how our energy is generated, and how to find the gaps where the university can reduce its footprint.

The whole world has a very large duty to bear in the next decade. It is necessary to come together and prevent future damage to the environment, revitalize communities that are currently being devastated by climate change, unify and fight as one team front, and create lasting structural change. This year, Amogh hopes to continue to empower the Office of Sustainability initiatives to create lasting and structural change to promote sustainable practices and address the climate crisis change. His goal for this year is to understand the bigger picture and help the university get there.