INNER LIGHT
Founder & CEO
Bodhi Patil
Climate solutionist | Speaker | Ocean Advocate
Bodhi is a UN-recognized, award-winning GenZ ocean-climate “Solutionist” and student-leader. He founded InnerLight in grade eight, empowering a generation to build climate resilience from the inside out. He has been featured on CNN, TEDx, United Nations Web TV, Forbes, Apple, and many international media outlets for improving ocean & human health.
As an ocean advisor and Earth Elders ambassador, he accelerates Intergenerational Collaboration for bio cultural stewardship with Indigenous leaders as a Wisdom Keeper. He is a 4th-year student leader in the BA + Masters of Management program at the University of British Columbia, majoring in Environment and Sustainability with a Climate Action Speciality.
He co-created Ocean Uprise and has built bridges between hundreds of communities, businesses, NGOs, and funders for ocean justice and planetary wellbeing. Bodhi has helped to advance global marine protection, influence large planet-positive investment portfolios, and educate millions to safeguard mother nature as a bridge-builder.
He advises multi-million dollar climate philanthropies, nature-based solution businesses, and ocean action networks with extensive experience in content creation, movement building, and winning high-stakes campaigns.
