Rajani Maharjan is a PhD student under the Religion and Nature fields of study at the University of Florida. She has a dual master’s degree in Anthropology
from Tribhuvan University, Nepal and Environmental Sciences and Policy from Northern Arizona University, USA. She was one of the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows for the year 2010/11. She has an extensive work experience as an environmental anthropologist for environmental non-profit organizations of Nepal. Her research interests include but limited to climate change, climate smart agriculture, Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), natural resource management, river restoration, river ecology, rainwater harvesting, waste water treatment, disaster risk reduction, and resilient rebuilding. She has published a few articles on traditional rituals on polluted rivers in a local newspaper and has co-authored many publications on climate change, disaster risk reduction and resilient rebuilding.