Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Karen Larbi

Environmentalism & Well-being
Also working within:
Community Organisers
Also working within:
Community Organisers
She/Her
Based: London
Karen Larbi is a diversity, equity and inclusion strategist, social change trainer, anti-oppression facilitator, lived experience advisor, Movement Chaplain and trauma-informed embodiment coach. She is a member of Purpose Union's Climate Counsel, and the Global Diversity Foundation's Global Environments Network. She was formerly a Trainer at Campaign Bootcamp where she led Rooted in Resistance, a 12-week campaigning training programme for environmental activists of colour, equipping them with the skills, confidence and community they need to take up leadership roles in the environmental movement. She is the Founder of POC in Nature, an online platform dedicated to helping people of colour explore the healing power of nature, environmental justice and land-honouring ancestral traditions. She previously sat on the England Advisory Committee at the RSPB, the UK’s largest nature conservation charity, and currently serves on their Communications & Engagement Committee. With a passion for blending her interests in social and climate justice, spirituality, trauma-informed mental health and ecology, she creates transformative spaces that facilitate deep reflection, analysis, and the sharing of experience in order to create frameworks for change on a personal, organisational and community level. She has provided consultancy and facilitated panel events, workshops and training programmes on race equity, power and privilege, climate justice, sustainable activism, organisational change, and more for organisations such as Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Collective Abundance, Decolonising Economics, RSPB, Legal Education Foundation, Global Diversity Foundation, Nesta, New Economics Foundation, and CPRE.
“We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. Recognising that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come.” Wangari Maathai