About Boundless Workshop
Our Philosophy
At Boundless Workshop, our core philosophy is collaborative problem-solving. We prioritize the power of workshopping solutions directly with our clients and partners over delivering off-the-shelf answers. This iterative and deeply engaged process allows us to fully explore possibilities that lie within an organization's challenges and aspirations.
Our mission is to co-create a future that is not only abundant but equitable. Specifically, our goal is to develop strategies and systems that directly contribute to making a future that is:
Healthier: Implementing practices and solutions that enhance well-being, safety, and resilience for people, communities, and internal teams.
Safer: Building sound governance, risk management, and operational frameworks to protect assets, data, and personnel.
More Sustainable: Designing long-term strategies that minimize environmental impact, eliminate human harm, optimize resource use, and ensure enduring value creation.
Through deep partnership, complex challenges become pathways for meaningful, lasting transformation.
Meet Surili
You know when you look at your health and think, "I should be exercising more," but your neighborhood doesn't feel safe to walk in because there isn't a sidewalk in sight? Then, you end up blaming yourself for not doing better?
Surili helps people see how the places we live, work, and play shape our health, so we stop treating public health challenges, like incomplete sidewalks and roads we use, the air we breathe and the water we drink, as personal failures and start understanding the systems behind them.
Surili is a trusted voice in the field of public health who champions diversity and works to advance public health, shared wellbeing, and social justice. With a rich public health and biomedical research background, she has led efforts to bridge the gap between public health practices and policies. Surili has played an integral role in the development and passage of policies that remove toxins from where people work, live, and play; designed innovative approaches to monitor and reduce environmental health risks; championed lead-free conditions to improve children’s health; and created short-term policy and advocacy strategies for organizations to address the quality of healthy housing and water systems.
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She approaches health and the environment through the lens of thoughtful coalition building and values-based communications strategies. Her areas of expertise include:
Crafting effective environmental health messaging
Designing advocacy and policy strategy
Building partnerships among public agencies and communities
Leading multi-partner research initiatives
Developing strategy on intersectional issues such as health, climate change, structural racism, and social justice
In addition to her environmental health experience, Surili has led teams in conducting message research and crafting non-polarizing communication strategies on broader public health topics. Her achievements in this niche include creating a message guide to advance policies that support healthy babies, children and families in achieving their optimal health; developing a communications toolkit to increase vaccination rates across hard-to-reach communities; and translating a scientific consensus report on menopause in the workplace into an actionable employer guide.
Surili also held a visionary leadership position at the American Public Health Association, where she inspired action by public health professionals and advanced policy agendas that address health at the nexus of climate and equity. During her tenure as the director of the Center for Climate, Health and Equity, she led strategies to advance equitable solutions by educating the public about and advocating for just climate policies and practices while supporting a dynamic environmental public health workforce. As Deputy Director for the Center for Public Health Policy, she elevated the Association’s environmental health program to the national stage.
She is a sought-after lecturer on topics including environmental health, climate and health, and energy justice. Surili received the Climate Resilience and Health Equity Award in the HHS Green Champion category for her contributions on conceptualizing and developing the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Climate Adaptation Planning project.
Surili holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a Master’s of Science in Biomedical Science Policy and Advocacy from Georgetown University.
In her spare time, Surili finds passion in supporting efforts to advance health for all and environmental policies that help communities thrive. The organizations she currently serves with include:
Health in Climate – Founding Board of Directors
Children’s Environmental Health Network – Board of Directors
Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (Maryland LCVEF) – The Board of Directors
Aawaz4Climate – Co-founder
Yale Center on Climate Change and Health – Advisory Board
She enjoys painting, hiking, and cooking international cuisines. As a former semi-professional Bharatanatyam dancer, she seeks opportunities to learn about arts and cultures from around the world.
Meet Our Collaborators
Our team brings a wide range of skills and perspectives to meet your needs. We drive purposeful work through thoughtful design and real connection.
Serene brings a full spectrum of experience to strategic communication initiatives, from design and research to facilitation and relationship management. For 20 years, she has collaborated with clients, colleagues, and community members to co-create intentional, human-centered messaging, materials, and processes that elevate community health, access, and engagement.
SERENE ARENA
Associate & Designer
Seema Wadhwa is a nationally lauded leader at the intersection of climate and health, recognized as a Time100 100 most influential climate leaders in business. She founded Health in Climate Voices and organized the first-ever Health in Climate Hackathon.
SEEMA WADHWA
Founder of Health in Climate
Mitchell Collins is a researcher and editor who works at the intersection of human rights, international development, and public communication. He brings years of experience translating complex research and policy findings into accessible, purposeful writing that supports advocacy, storytelling, and informed public conversation across government, philanthropy, and civil society.
MITCHELL COLLINS
Researcher & Editor