THE AI THREAD — Passions

AI has become a thread that runs through my interest, my workplace, and my personal projects, and I’m increasingly interested in where climate and AI intersect. HOW IT STARTED - My husband works as an AI workflow architect at a creative agency. Watching him build complex automation systems up close, shipping fast with this can-do attitude that anything is possible if you just start. That changed how I saw what was within reach. I didn’t need to be a traditional developer to build real things. - My love for building started at Traveloka, where I owned the full product cycle end-to-end. That growth mindset stuck: I stopped seeing problems as things to complain about and started seeing them as things to build for. WHAT I’VE BUILT - Conceptualized, designed, and shipped this website, sparking.chat, a wedding invitation, a skincare personality quiz, and a climate policy observatory, all using AI-assisted development - I treat each project like a product: what’s the user need, what’s the simplest version that works, how do I make it feel intentional? AT THE OFFICE - Co-leads NewClimate Institute’s internal AI working group: establishing org-wide guidelines for responsible AI use - Supported testing and refinement of the ChatNetZero AI model under the Net Zero Tracker project - Co-authoring CCRM 2025 assessing technology companies’ climate commitments, including the environmental implications of the AI boom THE CLASSROOM SIDE - Selected for the Mila – Climate Change AI Summer School 2024 in Montréal (fully funded, competitive admission) - Group project: analyzed crop dynamics in Kenya using satellite imagery and machine learning