Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Farah Ahmed

Cultural Creatives
Also working within:
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
Also working within:
Decolonising Movements & Diasporas
She/They
Based: London
Farah Ahmed is the Climate Justice Lead at Julie’s Bicycle. She manages 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 leads on the development of the Creative Climate Justice Hub, a library of climate justice resources for the arts and culture sector; and The Colour Green Lab, a free environmental training programme for POC in the arts. Their interests lie in how art and culture can centre stories and solutions from the frontlines of climate impacts, and how we can imagine and enact anti-colonial and anti-capitalist ways of being. Farah believes in the power of building a cultural movement for climate justice which is accessible, radical, well informed, and grounded in deep care for the human and non-human world. Farah is also on a number of advisory boards, focusing on grassroots-led creative and civic 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.”