About me

Hi! I’m Gautam Surya, and I am running for the Glen Rock Board of Education! I grew up in upstate New York and then New Jersey (near Princeton), before my family moved back to India when I was in fifth grade. I finished middle and high school there, before returning to the US for college. I have been here ever since.

I majored in math and biology at Tufts University, and then completed my doctorate at the University of Texas (Austin). I am a scientist by profession, working as a conservation biologist for a global non-profit organization on issues at the intersection of climate change, endangered species and human well-being.

I have two young boys (one in second grade, the other a year away from kindergarten), and have been their volunteer soccer coach through Glen Rock United. On the rare occasions that I am being neither a dad nor a scientist, I enjoy birdwatching, playing soccer and chess (but not at the same time), watching sports, and reading (I am an enormous Tolkien nerd).