Although 71 percent of our planet is made of it, water isn’t the most obvious career path for business-school graduates. Jyotika Chandhoke G24 WG24 wasn’t familiar with the sector before she interned at the Burnt Island Ventures water fund this past summer. She says the School’s Wharton Energy & Climate club helped her form the friendships and network she needed to dive deeper into her newfound interest, and it was the recommendation of a classmate in business economics and public policy professor Arthur van Benthem’s class that led to her current role at the climate-change advisory firm Ad Hoc Group. “That community has allowed me to be in spaces to position me better in the field,” she says.
