Farah Ahmed
Farah is an organiser, facilitator, creative producer and curator, working with arts and community groups to build powerful movements for climate justice. They co-founded Our Diaspora Futures, a space for POC environmentalists to dream, connect, and nourish ourselves in community. As the Climate Justice Lead at Julie’s Bicycle she has led on the Creative Climate Justice programme; developing resources, training and advocacy for the cultural sector; and connecting environmental, racial and social justice with creative activism. She developed the Creative Climate Justice Hub, an online library of climate justice resources for the arts and culture sector; and The Colour Green Lab, a free environmental training programme for POC cultural workers. They are interested in how we can imagine and practice decolonial, ancestral, and anti-capitalist ways of being. She believes in building a cultural movement for climate justice which is accessible, radical, well informed, and grounded in deep care for the human and more-than-human world. Farah is also on multiple advisory boards and projects focusing on grassroots-led creative and collective action for climate justice.
“Standing up for climate justice is not a choice, especially for POC around the world who are feeling the impacts of the crisis first hand. We need to respond with creativity, with courage, and with the knowledge that we are part of a deep and intricate collective ecology. We must fight, and we must win.”