Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Shanon Shah

Academics & Education
He/Him
Based: London

Shanon Shah balances interests in social and environmental justice as an academic scholar, activist and writer. He is the director of Faith for the Climate, a national charity focusing on collaborative action by faith groups to address the climate crisis, with a focus on supporting and involving minority faiths and other traditionally excluded groups within the environmental movement. He also conducts research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform), a research charity based at King's College London (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/trs/our-connections/outreach), and is currently a Tutor in Islam at the University of London worldwide's Divinity programme (https://www.london.ac.uk/our-tutors-divinity/dr-shanon-shah). Back in his native Malaysia, Shanon was a multiple award-winning musician and playwright, and a social justice activist.

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others." bell hooks