Saachi Kuwayama

Saachi Das Kuwayama is a graduate of University of Michigan’s School for Environment and Sustainability and Ford School of Public Policy.  As a 2019 University of Michigan Environmental Fellow, she worked at a Virginia non-profit Organization - Appalachian Voices - to advance state level environmental justice and energy reform policy.  Later, as a legislative intern at the House Committee on Natural Resources, she helped develop H.R. 5986, the Environmental Justice for All Act.  Saachi currently works in the Policy & Lobbying department at the League of Conservation Voters (LCV), where she coordinates the federal electoral program and helps develop LCV’s National Environmental Scorecard.  Saachi is the proud daughter of Indian and Japanese immigrants, was born and raised in Chicago, and currently lives in Washington, D.C.