Sudeep Motupalli Rao, Ph.D.
Founder
deep-solutions.com

beautifulCommunities.org

Sudeep is an artist, designer, engineer, and a social entrepreneur.  He can be described as a global community engineer engaged in the design and gelation of elegant and potentially disruptive solutions for challenges to our social, economic and environmental sustainability.  These solutions percolate across sectors and industries including energy, healthcare, food, education, and management.  Most often, this work involves the repair of complex systems and engage core competencies of failure analysis, resource inventory, strategy development, holistic design, partnership building, and solutions delivery.  The solutions are designed with the ultimate objective of building whole beautiful communities.  Some early designs include: a sugarcane-based biofuel plant in India, an in-situ remediation strategy for radioactive particles in groundwater, a biomimetic coating to protect surfaces from acid rain in a unique collaboration with the Getty Conservation Institute in LA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY; a measurement technique for micromotors used in nanotechnology and a community-owned grocery cooperative in a high-crime food desert.  Currents projects include water and energy conservation, healthy food access, enhancing the public health system, and cross-sector partnership development.  In June 2008, after a year of planning and visioning with community members and colleagues within the movement, he helped lead and launch the first annual Big ONE Convergence in San Francisco, to ensure the tectonic shift in our thinking about our sustainability.

An immigrant from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh in India, he is a second generation engineer specializing in the chemical and environmental field and has a combined experience of 20 years working in the academic, nonprofit, government and private semiconductor industry environments.  At age 9, he became aware of the toxic hazards from mercury and chlorine that his father faced as an engineer in a chemical plant in rural India.  Later in 1984, the Bhopal toxic gas accident involving thousands of immediate deaths and chronic illnesses for decades after it, was etched as a seminal call to arms for better engineering, management and environmental justice.  While learning firsthand about the health impacts of coal and uranium mining on workers and nearby villagers in Bihar, in northeastern India, he resolved to become a part of the solution.

He worked to remediate the groundwater in Los Alamos, New Mexico to prevent the radioactive contamination of the Rio Grande River that supports numerous Indian tribes and our neighbor Mexico downstream.  He has strived for the last five years to rectify the environmental injustices in the southeast community of San Francisco, California especially as it relates to air pollution and has also served as Executive Director of the nonprofit, Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ) based in Bayview Hunters Point, San Francisco, where he resides.

He is an elected member of the Restoration Advisory Board to cleanup the Superfund site at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco and also serves on the advisory board of the Urban Alliance for Sustainability.  He is a Community Fellow of the Full Circle Fund, an engaged philanthropy organization nurturing the next generation of community leaders to drive lasting social change in the SF Bay area.  He is a member of the Mayor’s Open Space Task Force to help design the city's open spaces for the next 100 years and UCSF’s University Community Partnerships Council in the effort to help reduce health inequities.  He is a Voice for Whole Communities, a nucleating group of select alumni from the Center for Whole Communities in Vermont.  He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers-Northern California chapter.  He served as President of the United Nations Association in New Mexico and is a member of the World Affairs Council, the Commonwealth Club, the United Nations Association of USA and Californians for a Healthy and New Green Economy (CHANGE).  He practices yoga daily and rows every week on a whaleboat in the San Francisco bay.
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