Serayna is a freelancer who cares about movement-made research-based action and implementation of climate justice practices. She is currently supporting the internal team of ANGRY (Alliance of Non—Governmental Radical Youth) to build it’s network and working group infrastructure for grassroots groups in policy spaces like the UNFCCC. 

Serayna has been the international coordinator (2020-23) for the Hands Off Mother Earth (HOME) Alliance, led by an alliance of civil society organisations, such as ETC Group, Indigenous Environmental Network, Heinrich Boell Foundation, Centre for Intl Enviornmental Law, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Friends of the Earth Into and many more! Here she was supporting policy advocacy and capacity building through popular education toolkits and trainings. She even got to observe the IPCC negotiations! She worked close with big into networks like DCJ to monitor and participate in different into policy spaces.

Serayna has also pursued research to enable agency and access for the diaspora, such as the Equniox Report that analysed the European Green New Deal through a racial justice lens; the Spotlight report which survey 1008 PoC to understand their experiences and relationships to climate change; the NEF and CPRE report on Access to countryside. Serayna has also pursued projects like Grandmothers’ Garden, a community knowledge sharing exchange with 8 PoC facilitators on climate justice, environmentalism, heritage and culture. She is a co-founder Diaspora Futures, with Samia and Farah, to bring together PoC climate activists in spaces of joy, imagination and rest. After training as a beekeeper at Hackney City Farm for 3 years, Serayna has founded BeePoC, a collective of aspiring PoC beekeepers who want to practice beekeeping with cultural and creative knowledge with deep respect for the more than human and ecological systems. She is the author of the zine “A community organisers pocket guide to the ways of honeybees”.