Ambika Tenneti is an environmental scientist by training and has worked extensively with Indigenous and rural communities in the fields of environmental health and education in India. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto where her research is on connecting recent immigrants to nature in the city. She volunteers as a community engagement specialist with several non-profit nature-based organisations.
If people don’t see themselves in green spaces, they will not come. Nor will they come if they don’t feel safe, write researchers Ambika Tenneti and Jacqueline L. Scott.
