Neha Misra नेहा मिश्रा (she/her) is an award-winning climate justice advocate, contemporary eco-folk artist and poet. Neha’s interdisciplinary studio embodies the transformative power of art to build bridges between our private, collective, planetary healing and justice. Neha's creative leadership is rooted in her Global Majority lineage as a first-generation, multi-lingual immigrant woman from New Delhi, India, and as a lifelong solar equity champion who has lived on three continents and now calls a solar-powered community in Washington, DC metro her beloved adopted home. She inspires contemplation, dialogue, and action we need to foster the shared health of people and planet. Neha is a 2023-2025 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow. She is a recipient of Nootana Washington DC’s 2024 “Preronadayini/Inspiration Giver” Distinguished Creative Leadership Award, and the North Carolina Climate Justice Collectives’ introductory 2024 Arts Residency. She has been honored as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and as a Regenerative Artivist by the Design Science Studio—a partnership of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual for leading planet conscious artists. Neha is a 2022 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis — an initiative of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the OpEd Project to change who writes history. Neha serves as the inaugural Global Ambassador for nonprofit Remote Energy dedicated to making solar jobs and training accessible for BIPOC communities, especially women of color. As Co-Founder of award-winning social enterprise Solar Sister that she co-led across four country offices as the Chief Collaboration Officer for a decade, Neha's climate leadership has delivered local women-led sustainable energy solutions to over four million people across Africa. She has been the Solar Suitcase Ambassador for We Care Solar's global maternal health care innovations.Neha is an honorary advisory board member of Silver Spring Town Center Inc, a local arts non-profit that activates public spaces with cultural events that embrace the capital region's diversity. She is a member of Sandy Spring Museum Regional Folklife Center's Strategic Advisory Committee. Neha’s visionary leadership has been featured by Forbes, National Geographic Magazine, Next Billion, Ms. Magazine, Mothers of Invention, Miami Art Week Regenaissance, The Revelator, The UN Chronicle, Grist, Voice of America and Humanity Rising. She seeks to live in solidarity with those committed to creating a just and sustainable shared world through renewed ways of being and belonging.