Ritu Primlani is the founder and executive director of Thimmakka's Resources for Environmental Education, where she has implemented a program of environmental education for ethnic restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. Greening South Asian Restaurants (GSAR) conducts outreach to Afghani, Burmese, Persian, Indian, Pakistani, Vietnamese, Thai and Ethiopian restaurants in 20 languages. GSAR has created a cost-effective strategy for communicating about environmental issues with non-English speaking minorities, while partnering with various city, county and regional environmental stakeholders. Ritu has held various positions including tech consultant, cartographer, GIS specialist, and teacher, and has written and spoken extensively on the environment and culture.