Black Feminism + Climate Justice
The Black EcoFeminist Summit is a half day of programing in London to celebrate the intersection of Black Feminism and Climate Justice. This experimental + interactive activation produced in partnership with Intersectional Environmentalist 501(c)(3) and Black Feminist Bookshop - will be an intimate, but global, convening of Black Ecofeminists to share space, learn and find joy. Kicking off during U.K. Black History Month, this experience will highlight the vast contributions of Black women to the environmental movement and serve as a hub for joy.
Due to limited venue capacity, tickets are prioritized for Black women and Black non-men only.
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📍 Location: Second Home: Spitalfields Auditorium
68 Hanbury St, London E1 5JL, United Kingdom
Time: Doors open at 11:30 - programming begins at 12:00 pm
Speakers
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An intersectional ecofeminist, author + founder of climate justice collective Intersectional Environmentalist. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, US and currently residing in Los Angeles, CA.
Leah is passionate about exploring the intersection of climate + culture and providing accessible educational resources about environmental justice.
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Dee is a working-class queer neurodiverse Black woman. She is the founder, organiser and creative force behind the Black Feminist Bookshop. Her work centres the healing and liberation of Black women, femmes, girls and non binary people, and empowering communities to create change.
Pronouns: she/her
Title: Founder, Creative and Organiser
Organization: Black Feminist Bookshop
Social: @blackfeministbookshop
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Arielle V. King (she/her) is a 24-year-old environmental educator, facilitator, writer, and content creator passionate about making environmentalism inclusive and accessible to all. She is the Tik Tok and Podcast Host for Intersectional Environmentalist. Arielle has earned a BA in Environmental and Sustainability Studies, a Master’s in Environmental Law and Policy, and a JD focused on environmental justice and civil rights law. She sits on the Board of Directors for Our Climate and Positive Tracks and is a member of the CDC Climate Action Plan Advisory Panel.
Social media: @ariellevking on all platforms (IG, Twitter, Tik Tok)
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Tatu (she/her) is part of the BIPoC Black Earth Climate Justice Collective and is based in Berlin. With decolonial, queer feminist and ecological perspectives Black Earth advocates for an intersectional climate movement and narratives. Together with Imeh Ituen, she published a paper which highlights the lack of awareness around environmental racism in Germany.Next to her work with the collective Tatu enjoys cycling, caring for the plants on her balcony and recharging at one of the many lakes around Berlin.
Social Media Handles https://linktr.ee/blackearthclimatejustice, @BlackEarthBer
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Mikaela Loach, climate justice activist, U.K.
Name: Mikaela Loach
Pronouns: she/they
Title: Climate Justice Activist, Writer and Co-host of The YIKES Podcast
Organization:
Social Media Handles: @mikaelaloach everywhere
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Dominique Palmer FRSA is a Climate Justice Activist, Storyteller, Writer and Speaker based in the U.K. She became an environmentalist after discovering how air pollution was impacting her community. She is an organiser in Fridays for Future, a global youth movement for Climate Justice, and was involved in September 2019 climate strikes which brought 300,000 people on the streets in the U.K. She was named in Forbes 2020 Top U.K Environmentalists List.
Social Media Handles: @domipalmer on Instagram, Twitter and Tiktok. Linkedin: Dominique Palmer FRSA
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Daze Aghaji (she/they) is a London based Youth Climate Justice Activist who centres on Regenerative Cultures, Intersectionality, Radical Social Justice and Youth Political Engagement in her work. Described by The Guardian as “a ball of energy, conviction and warmth”, Daze's advocacy for racial systemic change has led her to work with many leading charities, institutions, governments and grassroots change-makers globally. In 2019, she became the youngest candidate to stand in a European Parliamentary election and ran under the banner of a Climate and Ecological Emergency Independent to bring awareness to the need for political will in addressing the climate crisis. She has strong ties with the climate movement Extinction Rebellion since its early days and she was a founding member of the movement’s youth branch. Daze is currently a Creative Director at Earthrise Studio, a creative agency dedicated to communicating the climate crisis as well as an Artist in Residence at Phytology, the Bethnal Green Nature Reserve. Daze's work is rooted in deep love, duty and care for all life; she continues to passionately organises with many grassroots campaigns and organisations.
Social Media Handles @Dazeaghaji
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Wanjiku “Wawa” Gatheru is a Kenyan-American climate justice storyteller and the founder of Black Girl Environmentalist, an intergenerational community for Black girls, women and non-binary environmentalists. Wawa is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, Fellow at the All We Can Save Project and climate advisor to the musical artist Kehlani. She is also the 1st ever Activist Board Chair at the Environmental Media Association and the youngest council member at EarthJustice. Wawa has been recognized as a Young Futurist by The Root, a Grist 50 FIXER, a Glamour College Woman of the Year, a VS PINK Purpose Project Winner, and has spoken on her work across the country.
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Sheena Anderson (she/her) is a political scientist, Black feminist and intersectional environmentalist. She has been working for the Berlin-based Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy (CFFP) starting in 2020, since Fall 2021 as a project manager responsible for antiracism, climate justice and the Netzwerk F, an intersectional feminist political network for young women and non-binary people. During her MA in peace research and international politics she specialised in feminist foreign policy, race and gender in IR, sexual and gender-based violence during and after conflict and peace mediation. She wrote her master's thesis on intersectional feminist perspectives for the climate movement. With years of experience in political education, she is an expert on antiracism and the prevention of right-wing extremism and a qualified anti-bias trainer. Sheena is an activist with the Black Earth Collective.
Instagram: sheena_a; Twitter: aanderson_sh
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Calah (she/her) has worked in publishing for almost three years. Before becoming an editor, she co-founded Mendü, a start-up focussed on improving mental health and wellbeing provision for women of colour. In her free time, she writes fiction, goes birdwatching, plays fiddle in a folk band, and volunteers with the creative writing charity Ministry of Stories. Originally from the United States, she’s lived in the UK for 8 years.
Social Media Handles: Twitter @calah
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Joycelyn Longdon is a Cambridge University PhD student and environmental activist-academic. Her research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining machine learning, ecoacoustics, forest ecology & local ecological knowledge to investigate the role of technology in forest conservation.
She is also the founder of climateincolour, an online education platform and community for the climate curious.
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Einass Bakhiet is a British-Sudanese who graduated with an MSc in Environmental Governance from the University of Oxford. She was awarded a Distinction for her thesis, which looked at how financial investments could incorporate racial and environmental equity, interviewing a range of CEOs, Directors and Analysts in finance. Before her master’s, she worked in sustainability risk management for a global reinsurer. At Oxford, she was the lead organizer on the Rhodes Must Fall campaign and dedicated member of the Media Society, which consolidated her interest in catalysing media for environmental and social change.
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Marion Atieno Osieyo is a leader and writer creating pioneering solutions for people and nature. She believes healthy natural ecosystems are the foundation for social justice, resilience and planetary wellbeing. She is currently the Global Strategist on Nature's Contributions to People at WWF, where she drives coordination to ensure WWF's accountability for human rights and social equity in conservation. Of Luo heritage, Marion was born and raised in Kenya and currently lives in London, UK.
Activities
Education - A curated selection of free books by Dee at Black Feminist Bookshop for all attendees and inspiring keynotes + workshop conversations.
Arts + Music - A curated selection of art + music brought to you by Climate Live infused throughout the program. Artists TBA
Panel Discussions - Dynamic panel discussions on Black identity, feminism and climate justice from activists + educators from around the world.
Run of Show
Event Partners
Climate Live is a global youth-led movement who organise concerts to harness the power of music to engage a new audience in climate justice, educate them about the challenges faced by those on the frontlines and empower them to take action. They have teams in over 40 countries all around the world and organised concerts in 25 countries in 2021. This year the UK team launched their solar-powered pink opentop bus stage which they took to major festivals to spread the message!
Black Girl Environmentalist's main goal is to is to create an intergenerational, supportive community of Black girls, women, and non-binary environmentalists. By empowering our community, Black Girl Environmentalist seeks to address the pathway and retention problem in the environmental movement through curated content, programming and mentorship curated for and by Black non-men.
Black Earth Collective
Black Earth is an environmental and climate justice collective founded in 2019 in Berlin, Germany. We are a mix of students, activists, academics, professionals and advocates for a more equitable future. The majority of our members identify as Black and/or FLINT
Intersectional Environmentalist a climate justice collective radically imagining a more equitable + diverse future of environmentalism. We hope to empower + instill joy in people of color and historically excluded communities by amplifying the incredible legacies of diverse people in the environmental space throughout history and in the present - because we believe with representation, and an understanding that they have always been part of environmental history, we’ll empower a new generation of environmentalists and reshape the future of environmentalism to one that is rooted in equity and inclusion.
Black Feminist Bookshop
The Black Feminist Bookshop is a queer-Black-woman-owned project inspired by resistance, imagination, and care. We are a popup bookshop, a book club, and an events space selling books by Black feminists, queer/LGBTQIA+ people of colour, women of colour, and other historically marginalised voices. The Black Feminist Bookshop is a new approach to Black women and gender-expansive people’s wellbeing. We give people a place to engage with the works and legacies of Black feminist and queer writers to gain the knowledge and confidence to create personal transformation and radical social change. Our vision is to live in a world where Black women, girls, and gender-expansive people flourish and are free to be joyful, whole, and at peace. We are taking up space to get us there.a climate justice collective radically imagining a more equitable + diverse future of environmentalism.
