Shilpi Chhotray (she/her) is an award-winning advocate, media strategist, and movement-builder dedicated to advancing climate and environmental justice. As the Co-Founder and President of Counterstream Media, she leads the organization’s strategy, fundraising, and storytelling initiatives that center frontline voices and strengthen movement organizing.

Shilpi is also the host of A People’s Climate for The Nation, where she interviews community organizers, legal strategists, and cultural workers shaping the future of the climate movement. Her commentary has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, BBC, ABC, NBC, Al Jazeera, with original reporting published in The Nation, The Guardian, and Prism. She also writes Narrative Edit, a newsletter exploring the intersection of power, media, and narrative change.

With nearly 15 years of experience, Shilpi’s work spans global campaigns on plastic pollution, narrative strategy across social movements, and the creation of media platforms that challenge extractive systems. Prior to founding Counterstream Media (formerly People over Plastic), she served as the Global Communications Lead for Break Free From Plastic, where she played a foundational role in movement-building — establishing and leading its communications hub, while campaigning on plastic reduction policy at local, federal, and international levels. She also worked at Mission Blue/Sylvia Earle Alliance where she guest-authored for National Geographic.

Shilpi is also the creator and host of the five-season People over Plastic podcast, which helped shape Counterstream’s storytelling work today.

She lives in Oakland, California, on Ohlone land with her family.