Shimul supports philanthropic, nonprofit, and impact investor clients to further community and nature-based climate solutions by supporting strategy development, due diligence and grantmaking, and impact measurement. Her expertise brings together skills in investment analysis, environmental and public policy, and conservation research. At CEA, she has worked closely with clients that include the Coca-Cola Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Conservation International, and the ClimateWorks Foundation.
Prior to joining CEA, Shimul was a fellow at the VertueLab Climate Impact Fund, where she led due diligence for venture capital investments in early-stage climate technologies. Previous independent clients have included multiple impact investors and nonprofits, such as Hatch Blue, Aquarev (Meloy Fund), Natural Resources Defense Council, and Wilderness Markets. She has also led field-based ethnographic research on marine protected area governance and ecotourism in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands with Dakshin Foundation, where she authored and published several technical reports, peer-reviewed articles, and popular communication pieces.
Shimul earned a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University and a BA in Public Policy and Environmental Science. She also sits on the board of Backcountry Squatters, a Montana-based nonprofit that provides outdoor leadership scholarships to women and non-binary college students across the U.S.