ABOUT BEN VELANI, ECHO360 ESG IMPACT MANAGER

Ben Velani is from Minneapolis and graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University ’22, majoring in Religious Studies and Government. Through the Humanities Scholar Program, he spent two years researching how to minimize light pollution’s disruption of the rhythms and ecology of the natural world and human experiences with a dark night sky.

After graduating from Cornell, Ben was invited to join a national cohort of Lead for America fellows. In 2023, he spent over 1700 hours serving West Central Initiative (WCI), a regional development organization and community foundation in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, as a Climate Fellow. Primary among a number of projects, he traveled around the nine counties that WCI serves to interview the people whose daily work it is to make the region more sustainable and resilient. Each month, he published their stories in WCI’s monthly Climate Action Newsletter. 

At Echo360, Ben works with senior management to evaluate and communicate the company’s community and environmental impacts, as well as seek out, create, or act on new opportunities to grow Echo360’s already robust responsible business practices.