Shreejita Basu

Washington State Department of Ecology, Senior Environmental Specialist, Toxics Cleanup Program

Shreejita Basu, PhD, recently joined the Washington State Department of Ecology as the Senior Environmental Specialist for their Toxics Cleanup Program. She was formerly a Water Scientist at Sustainable Northwest, a conservation nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon. Prior to joining Sustainable Northwest, she was a Fellow at the World Forest Institute, researching on innovative funding models for natural resources nonprofits in the Pacific Northwest . She was born and raised in India, where she completed her PhD in Water Resources from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi). She was awarded the VLIR-UOS scholarship at University of Antwerp and Ghent University, Belgium for a program on Integrated Water Management.