Dr. Kritee is a senior scientist in the Climate Program at Environmental Defense Fund. Between 2011-2016, she directed a multi-partner research team working on “Climate smart agriculture” at six labs across five states in rural India and examined the effectiveness of different farming practices for rice and other regional crops in increasing yields, improving farm economics and soil quality as well as decreasing greenhouse gas emissions. She has close to twenty years of cross-disciplinary research experience. She was trained as a microbiologist and isotope biogeochemist at Rutgers and Princeton Universities. She is a co-founder of Boundless in Motion and Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center.