Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Fehinti Balogun

Cultural Creatives
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
Based: London
Fehinti is an actor, theatre maker and activist. As an actor he has worked in theatre, film and television, with recent performances in Blue Door at Bath Theatre Royal, BBC Radio 4’s retelling of Oliver Twist and the upcoming BBC HBO drama ‘January 22nd’. Alongside his acting career, he delivers talks on climate change aimed at a more rounded inclusion in the conversation on behalf of Extinction Rebellion. As a result of these talks he has toured London and southern England, discussing climate change and taking part in international climate discussions.
“I’m a normal person, and I have to do normal things - so often I forget that we are living in a climate emergency and I go into a mixture of shock and sadness. Judging others does not get us anywhere, but I equally don’t believe accepting where we are works either. We have to keep pushing, innovating and making activism in all its forms accessible and available to the whole of society - including those on the fringes. Which is why I am writing and developing work from the perspective of my diaspora because representation is just one of the many things that will take us forward.”