2021 Cohort

Together with OpenAQ, Community Ambassadors commit to advocating for data transparency and contribute to the collective action against air pollution. Meet the 2021 cohort below.

Azjargal (Aza) Tsogtsaikhan

Mongolia

Aza is the Founder and Director of Breathe Mongolia - Clean Air Coalition, a grassroots nonprofit registered in the US and in Mongolia. A peaceful demonstration against air pollution at Times Square in New York City turned into a dedicated team of diverse backgrounds from ten countries to arm people...

Farah Kazi

India

Farah Kazi is a Biotechnologist and a former Data Visualiser. After graduating from Dr. D.Y. Patil University, Navi Mumbai, she pursued her post-graduate diploma in Social Communications Media at SCM Sophia College, University of Mumbai. Her interest in air pollution stems from when she began...

Josephine Mbandi †

Kenya

Josephine was an embedded system engineer and a co-founder of AfriSTEM Connection, a company working to increase Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and sustainability awareness for underserved communities in Africa using emerging technologies. She worked on designs to develop,...

Melusi Molefe

South Africa

Melusi works as an air quality specialist in the city of Durban eThekwini Municipality’s Health Unit’s Pollution Control and Risk Management Department where he currently leads the implementation of the Air Quality Management Plan, including atmospheric information such emission inventories,...

Ray Koçi

Albania

Ray is the program director at the Relationship Centre (@Qendra_M) in Tirana, Albania, an organization that examines neighborhood planning through the lens of building safe and healthy spaces for children and their caregivers, with a particular focus improving quality of life through better air...

Representing 5 countries