Deyah El-Azhari is an Associate at Climate Rights International, based in San Carlos. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she led climate justice workshops, co-created a student micro-credential program, and organized service projects with Indigenous groups.
At CU Boulder, Deyah served on the Environmental Board, chaired the Sustainable Development Committee, and supported fossil fuel divestment and local grassroots campaigns. She later helped plan the Climate Summit for San Mateo County and worked at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability on a DOE-funded energy resilience project.
She is passionate about environmental writing and poetry, and once recited her poem about trees at the UN Right Here, Right Now protests.
