ABOUT

 
Charitie Ropati (Yup'ik & Samoan) is an education & climate justice advocate, Scientist and Water engineer. She has worked on building pipe infrastructure and water infrastructure for rural Alaska Native communities. She is originally from the Native Village of Kongiganak Alaska, a small coastal community in the Southwest region of Alaska and Anchorage, Alaska.
Charitie is a recent graduate from the School of  Engineering at Columbia University and holds a bachelors of science in Civil Engineering on the Water Resources track, and concentrations in  Earth and Environmental Engineering & Anthropology. She was awarded Champion for Change by the Center for Native American Youth for her work in education & climate and has been recognized by the World Wildlife Fund as a Conservation Leadership Awardee and has keynoted at the UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum at the United Nations Headquarters, on behalf of her Arctic community.

She also implemented a culturally relevant curriculum in her school district in Alaska and passed a policy that allowed for students to wear their cultural regalia during high school graduation, this work has impacted over hundreds of thousands of students and more to this day.

 
She current works as a Water Engineer, serves on the Board of Intersectional Environmentalist, an incredible environmental justice organization, and is the North America Regional Facilitator for the Youth Climate Justice Fund. She is also apart of the United Nations Women's Leader Initiative. And most recently was featured on the 2025 Forbes 30 Under 30 List, under Education.
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