Arpit Sharma is an alumnus of BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus India. After a brief stint in the corporate sector as an analyst, he joined Teach for India to teach in an underprivileged school in Hyderabad. It's during the conversations with his students on climate change, he realized the role of citizen activism in demanding climate justice. Since then, he has been working as a coordinator of Fridays for Future Hyderabad, which is a collective movement of thousands of youth and children from Hyderabad to demand climate justice.