MacVicar Award

Shiladitya DasSarma received the MacVicar Leadership Award at the MIT Alumni Leadership Conference on September 17, 2022 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

From the MIT Alumni Association website:

DasSarma is the founder and leader of MIT Alumni for Climate Action (MACA). As described in a recent Virtual Tech Reunions video, MACA grew out of an initiative in his home state of Maryland in October 2018, when a group of alumni in Maryland sent an open letter on climate change to all candidates running for public office in the state. MACA has now grown to several hundred active members in dozens of US states and foreign countries, with active working groups on climate advocacy, technology, education, and climate justice. MACA advocates for science-based solutions to the serious challenges posed by the climate crisis. DasSarma’s motivations in founding and leading MACA include a genuine concern for our planet and future generations of Earth’s inhabitants―among whom are our current students and future alumni/ae. He believes strongly that most in the MIT community have similar concerns, and that MIT alumni/ae can lead by example in their own lives and together supply a credible and important voice that should be used to advocate for appropriate responses to the climate crisis.