Deepti Chatti is an Assistant Professor of Climate Justice at the University of California, San Diego, where she works in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the Critical Gender Studies Program. Using ethnographic research methods, Chatti critically analyzes sustainable development efforts aimed at expanding clean energy access and reducing exposure to air pollution in historically underserved communities in India and the United States. In India, her scholarship focuses on clean cooking energy transitions and household air pollution in low-income homes that are often the targets of development initiatives. She has conducted long-term fieldwork on these topics in collaboration with community-based organizations in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh. In the United States, her research examines wildfires, smoke, access to electricity, and clean energy transitions within the electrical grid. She has carried out this research in collaboration with Native tribes in California.