In 1995, during a semester leave from college, I served as an internship with the Mayor of Lalitpur. Later, when I was a doctoral student,
MIT gave me the opportunity to be a
Martin Fellow for Sustainability, participating in collaborative discourses with senior leaders, faculty and students from MIT,
ETHZ,
EPFL,
Chalmers University of Technology and
the University of Tokyo in the US, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Thailand.