Yash Gharat

Alumni Update:

Yash now works as Deputy Country Director at One Acre Fund’s Malawi program. He spends most of his time fiddling with their back-end systems (logistics, client services) and operations strategy to ensure improved client experience. He lives in (and continues to love!) Zomba, Malawi.

Fellow Bio:

Yash is originally from Mumbai, India. For some crazy reason, he decided to leave the warm coastal locales of Mumbai and ended up in frigid Ithaca, studying Natural Resources at Cornell University. While at Cornell, he was part of the Big Red Raas team (a western Indian dance form) and a founding member of Cornell Tarana, a South Asian a capella group. Yash studied abroad in Kenya and Tanzania in fall 2011, where he wrestled (read as “observed from a safe distance”) with elephants, hunted (with cameras) lions and conducted (backbreaking) research on land use change on the northern slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro. As an avid birdwatcher, Yash hopes to add a couple hundred more central and southern African bird species to his bird list while in Zambia, in addition to learning the local language, listening to psychedelic Zambian rock from the 70s, driving a safari vehicle at least once (I don’t speed, no worries) and engaging with the world of corporate responsibility and sustainability.