Marena Lin applies her training in data and climate science and understanding of food security systems in India to the operations of Project Restore Us. She completed her postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego researching climate change and human migration, with past work focused on climate change and food security. She was a 2013-2017 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and she completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.

Prior to this, Lin completed a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she completed a thesis on perceptions of climate change, cropping decisions, and India’s Public Distribution System in the Uttarakhand Himalayas. She completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard College, and she is highly proficient in Urdu-Hindi and proficient in Spanish. Lin was previously a staff organizer with the Harvard Graduate Students Union - UAW.