Rekhi graduated in June 2025 with a major in Environmental Science and minors in Psychology and Environment and Behaviour. The turning point was living at Harkaway Cottage with eight other students during a summer Research Excursions Program at the Koffler Scientific Reserve; she later joined FREED, an access-based program for BIPOC researchers at the Algonquin Wildlife Research Station, where she is now a student ambassador.
As Sustainability Commissioner for the UC Literary and Athletics Society and a work-study student on the President's Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainability, she organized the first inter-college sustainability conference on the St. George campus and led a waste audit at UC's Whitney Hall Residence, presented to the March 2025 College Council — work that fed into U of T's back-to-back #1 Global Sustainability Ranking. She was also active in the Hart House Debate Club, judging novice finals at the 2025 North American debating championships in Kingston.
She's now a master's student in environmental studies at York University, focusing on Indigenous sovereignty and community consultation — building, in a new field, on the sense of connection that turned her college years around.
Reported from Finding community set Hargun Rekhi on a path to become a sustainability changemaker, by Georgia Laidlaw (U of T Alumni News, January 9, 2026).
More from the original reporting: alumni.utoronto.ca/news/Hargun-Rekhi-path-to-sustainability-changemaker