Nalini Nadkarni

Nalini Nadkarni, also known as the “Queen of the Forest Canopy”, is a celebrated ecologist who pioneered the use of mountain-climbing equipment to study the rainforest canopies of Costa Rica in the 1980s. In 2019, Mattel introduced a Barbie doll based on Nadkarni! Nadkarni frequently goes into prisons to teach the inmates about trees.