Columbia Climate School
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2026
Program
Processional
Greetings and Dean Remarks
Alexis Abramson, PhD, Dean
Directors’ Remarks
Lisa Dale, PhD, Director MA in Climate and Society
Lisa Sachs, JD, Director of MS in Climate Finance
Student Awards
Jeff Shaman, PhD, Senior Vice Dean
Student Leadership Remarks
Evan Moretti, President, Columbia Climate Graduate Council (CCGC)
Student Speaker
Annika Bellot, MA in Climate and Society candidate
Keynote Speaker
Melanie Nakagawa, Corporate Vice President and Chief
Sustainability Officer at Microsoft
Presentation of the Graduates
Closing Remarks
Alexis Abramson, PhD, Dean
Recessional
Reception
Awards
The Campbell Award
Marina Saguar Urquiola, MA in Climate and Society candidate
Climate School Community Engagement Award
Laura Huepenbecker, MS in Climate Finance candidate
Climate School Academic Leadership Award
Aynsley Kretschmar, MA in Climate & Society candidate
Graduates
Master of Arts in Climate and Society
Nathan Aberg
Salman Al Fathan
Luha Ali Naseer
Regana Alicka
Jogi Amin
Talita Andre
Cristina Marie Banahan Ferrer
Julia Barcelo Figueras
Kishan Batra
Jeff Becko
Annika Kamilla Bellot
Jacob Benoist
Julia Berak
Yuluo Cai
Stella Hoffman Câmara
Jing Chen
Jasmin Cheng
Wenting Cheng
Elaine Chow
Grace Cogley
Anna Comstock
Bridget Darrah
Saka Davaajav
Nikko Deligiannis
Yuhang Dong
Sravanthi Dornadula
Evelyn Fahlen
Zeheng Fei
Alexander Foley
Erin Frank
Columbia Climate School Class Day 2026
Master of Arts in Climate and Society
Olivia Frykman
Jiyang Gao
Zhi Geng
Belen Gonzalez
Mali Gruber
Weihao Guo
Delilah Harvey
Xiyu He
Yaashree Himatsingka
Yuanli Hong
Alex Huang
Weitao Huang
Yuxuan Huang
Stephanie Hunt
Alexandra Jacobs
Dorothy Janick
Timothe Jekel
Sarah Ling Ji
Andrew Jiang
Jenni Wanjun Jiang
Ziyue Jiao
Kavya Kowtha
Aynsley Kretschmar
Emma Kyzivat
Hanson Lai
Gabriela Lebron
Brian Leung
Natalie Kay Lewis
Jingjing Li
Yue Li
Graduates
Master of Arts in Climate and Society
Qiaoyu Li
Shuaiying Li
Weizhuo Li
Yixuan Li
Laura Zsófia Lock
Wenwen Lu
Yulin (Malcolm) Ma
Ines Mauduit
Amir Moghaddam
Amber Moore
Jaime Ng
Eva Papanikolaki
Yiming Qiu
Marissa Quintanilla
Ayesha Rehmat
Daria Richman Price
Marina Saguar Urquiola
Cianna Salvatora
Xiaoyi Shi
Harriet Shopland-Reed
Gildon Smith
Christopher Swain
David Tang
Haibo Tang
Gareth Teixeira
Wamuyu Thoithi
Jingjun Tian
Dasha Timasheva
Dara Towriss
Jonathan Ung
Columbia Climate School Class Day
Master of Arts in Climate and Society
Hongjie Wang
Anran Weng
Diana White
Shanqing Xu
Hao Xue
Shiyi Xue
Bora Yagiz
Leo Yan
Mark Yeo
Jiwon Yun
Songqi (Mikaela)Zhang
Primrose Zhang
Siqi Zhang
Wenbo Zhang
Yifu Zhang
Jasmin Zheng
Lyuchong Zheng
Yuan Yuan Zhou
Ziyue Zhou
Licheng Zhu
Graduates
Master of Science in Climate Finance
Amalia Adhasara
Monica Alonso Soria
Yijia Bai
Pulkit Bajpai
Lukas Shaw
Reva Bhardwaj
Nikki Carenza
Mariana Carvalho de Freitas
Luca Clavarino
Claudia de Vecchi
Dillon Delaney
Linfeng Deng
Qiheng Ding
Chimi Dorji
Yaojun Du
Louis Durance
Piper Edwards
Isaac Eskind
Yani Fabre
Danielle Fujimoto
Xinming Guo
Alan Havelka
Allen He
Yiheng Huang
Laura Huepenbecker
Luke Jobe
Elisabeth Kalomeris
Kailey Kimsa
Yu Jeong Lee
Hanrui Li
Columbia Climate School Class Day 2026
Master of Science in Climate Finance
Boyang Liu
Chenyu Liu
Hanchi Long
Jiaqi Ma
Sophie Maher
Peter Makey
Paul Malefyt
Gunjidmaa Manlaikhuu
Ananya Mathur
Lily McRae
Irma Melikishvili
Evan Moretti
Esther Namulondo
Priyal Patel
Vincent Sandow-Straesser
Mariana Sullivan
Sara Swenson
Grace Taylor
Katherine Treanor
Rahul Verma
Guorun Wang
Tianhua Wang
Kuan Wei
Alexandra Westfall
Junkai Yu
Ardes Martua Yudito Sitanggang
Jinming Zhang
Ronghao Zhao
Salome Zurabishvili
The Columbia Climate School’s mission is to develop and inspire knowledge-based solutions and educate future leaders for just and prosperous societies on a healthy planet.
Map to Reception: Ancell Plaza
Miller Theatre
Ancell Plaza