At Michigan State University, Tri Sulistyo Saputro is a community sustainability doctoral student focusing on gender, justice, and environmental change to bridge climate actions and gender-transformative measures to protect and benefit local people equally.

Tri is an environment officer at the ASEAN Secretariat in Jakarta. He earned his bachelor’s degree in forestry from Institut Pertanian Bogor and a master’s in environment and society from the University of Waikato, New Zealand.