Hadia is a manager in RMI’s Climate-Aligned Industries (CAI) Program, co-leading community engagement and equity-centered work across the highest emitting industrial sectors in the Clean Industrial Hubs (CIH) team. Her portfolio includes Clean Hydrogen, Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), Shipping, Steel, and Waste-Methane sectors. She advises project developers on how to operationalize the “Justice40 Initiative” framework via capacity-building workshops and webinars on best practices for equitable, inclusive and meaningful two-way engagement to derisk projects, designing and implementing well-rounded and responsive community benefit plans (CBPs), and remediating the impacts of historic underinvestment, environmental injustice, and decades of legacy pollution in low-income, BIPOC frontline communities.
Hadia is the first global winner of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s King Hamad Youth Empowerment Award to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for contributions to Goals 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, and 17, and was recognized as one of the “50 Rising Stars in ESG‘‘ by Women of the Future, Tesco, Burberry, PwC, Aviva, Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and The Financial Times. Hadia is a contributing author on the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), which helps inform the city’s multi-hazard adaptation and resilience strategies to protect vulnerable and low-income communities from growing climate risks.