Fred Scarf graduated as his high school’s salutatorian with a 4.9 GPA, earning a full-ride scholarship to UC Berkeley, which gave him the tools to navigate Tahiti’s climate crisis, where environmental shifts are outrunning human response. He briefly transferred to Cornell before returning to Berkeley, where he built apps and founded a software startup while writing for The Wall Street Journal’s student edition. He graduated in 2014 with an interdisciplinary degree, combining political science and computer science. Today, he applies his technical background to help protect Tahiti.
