Savitha is Deputy Director of Climate Solutions. She is responsible for organizational effectiveness and oversees the organization's development, cultivation and fundraising efforts, managing the team that raises funds from individuals, foundations and corporate supporters. While at Climate Solutions, Savitha was on the fundraising teams for the No on 2117 and Yes on 1631 ballot initiative campaigns. She is on the Steering Committee for the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict. To her, climate change is the biggest justice issue of our lifetime and she has been working on the issue she interned at the US Environmental Protection Agency's Policy office during the Kyoto Protocol negotiations.

She is a graduate of the Center for Diversity & the Environment’s Environment 2042 Leadership Program, and served on the boards of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and Mize Family Foundation, and the inaugural Advisory Council of the University of Washington’s EarthLab. Before joining Climate Solutions, Savitha worked at Seattle Foundation; the Collins Group, now Campbell & Company; the Women's Funding Alliance, the US EPA, and Environmental Media Services, now Resource Media).

Savitha received a BA with Honors in Government and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College. She has been recognized with the 40 Under 40 award from the Puget Sound Business Journal and the Eco Women Making a Difference award from Women of Color Empowered and the Northwest Asian Weekly, and was awarded a Brainerd Foundation Fellowship to Social Venture Partners. She has lived in Seattle since 2000, and is a proud auntie.