Nawale was born in the 1980s in Hyderabad, India. She loves nature, because she went to the Himalayas many times with her parents. At 16 or 17, she became a vegan. Nawale loved watching “underwater shows” when she was a kid, which led to her learning about the dangers of climate change on oceans. She grew up middle-class and went to BITS-Pilani university.