Milan Shrestha is a Teaching Professor and Deputy Director of Student Success in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. He provides leadership in sustainability curriculum design and instructional innovation across immersive in‑person and digitally enhanced learning environments. His teaching prepares students—both within sustainability and across all disciplines—to examine sustainability challenges through the lens of complex socio‑ecological‑technological systems, ethical reasoning, and future‑oriented strategic action.

Trained as an environmental anthropologist, he integrates active research into his sustainability courses and mentors students on collaborative research teams. His research investigates how shared cultural knowledge and institutions shape smallholder agricultural decision‑making, land‑use change, and community responses to glacier retreat and climate risks, with a particular focus on the Himalayan region.