Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Ashish Ghadiali

Academics & Education
Also working within:
Community Organisers
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
Also working within:
Community Organisers
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
He/Him
Based: Devon
Ashish is a filmmaker and activist who works for racial justice and environmental justice in diverse contexts. He is Strategic Advisor on Climate Justice at the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute, co-chair of the Black Atlantic Innovation Network at UCL for the Study of Racism and Racialisation and advisor to the Decolonisation and Representation Process at The Box in Plymouth. Ghadiali is the Co-Founder/Co-Director of Radical Ecology, a new CIC that works across culture, research and policy to build community and advance climate justice. He was also publisher of the 2019 Open Letter to XR and regularly contributes to The Guardian and Observer. Formerly, he was a member of the co-ordination committee of the COP26 civil society coalition and part of the team that set up the Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp in 2006. More recent projects include the public gatherings Sensing the Planet (2021) and Equilibrium (2022), delivered in association with Serpentine, that have brought together notable and new decolonial thinkers, artists and activists.
“It takes many people to effect a complete change in any system.” John Coltrane