Mayumi is a PhD student and Gates Cambridge scholar at the University of Cambridge, and founder and director of SustainED. She has several years of experience working in Asia, North America, and Europe on issues of reforestation, global environmental justice, illegal logging, and gender equity. She has worked on Ministerial-level policy discussions on improving safeguards for unintended social consequences of climate change, and written on issues of reforestation, land reclamation, environmental decolonization, and climate solidarities. She is interested in co-creating participatory research within and beyond the academy which prioritizes social and ecological justice. She is a National Geographic Explorer and a UN Women 30 for 2030 member co-leading the Sports for Generation Equality campaign in Asia and the Pacific.