Shreya Ramineni is a fourth-year student majoring in Human Biology and Society and minoring in Global Health. She works on a research project under Dr. Bharat Venkat on how the enduring legacy of colonial rule, specifically on how we understand certain bodies through different physiological and social contexts, has: 1) shaped the contemporary distribution of human vulnerability to rapid climatic change and its effects, including extreme heat, and increased rates of infectious disease, and 2) continued to resonate in local understandings and responses to climate change. Shreya focuses this on two geographic locations—the United States and India—in order to highlight and contrast how vulnerabilities take different forms on the basis of historical differences. Furthermore, her project contributes to Dr. Bharat Venkat’s “Heat Lab,” an interdisciplinary collaboration project focused on understanding heat and responses to heat through the use of ethnographic, historical, and cartographic methods. Her goal is to add to the growing perspectives within environmental justice interventions that focus on the impacts of climate change on human bodies, alongside the mitigation of environmental degradation.