Manisha Priyadarshini is an Indigenous technologist from Taino and Santali communities. As a co-founder of ProgramEarth, her work focuses on building community capacity for Indigenous communities to monitor land and water health and translate that evidence that informs environmental policy and cost benefit calculations for climate risk planning.
Her career spans public policy and technology. She started as a campaigns manager for U.S. Representative Julie Brownley, later transitioning to tech at orgs like GitHub where she supported digital transformation initiatives with agencies including NASA, NOAA, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.