Sharlene Gandhi
Business & Entrepreneurs
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Journalists & Writers
Also working within:
Journalists & Writers
Based: London
Sharlene is a journalist working at the intersection of business, work, technology and environmental sustainability. Currently, she is based in Toronto, Canada, where she works as a technology and data reporter for Future of Good, covering social impact work across Canada and beyond. Her research and data journalism have spanned a number of topics, including Indigenous land rights, agricultural justice, climate technologies, behavioural change in the context of environmental sustainability, and new organizational ownership models. She has been published by the likes of the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, gal-dem, Courier Media and Dazed, and has worked with IKEA, Social Enterprise UK, Global Action Plan, Rich Mix, Sustainability First and Universities UK on communicating about the environment to the general public. She is also currently the host of shado’s Bookshelf, a monthly social justice book club, where reading themes have covered Indigenous water rights and garment workers’ rights, among other topics. She has also had an essay on placemaking published in Nature is a Human Right, an anthology dedicated to increasing access to green space.
“It is futile to talk about the climate crisis without recognising that firstly, capitalism, the colonial project, and structural inequality played a role in creating the crisis. It is then imperative to address the fact that those at the bottom - women and non-binary people, ethnic minorities, those of working-class background - are more likely to be acutely impacted by the climate crisis, while those higher on the social ladder will be able to pay their way out. As climate-induced gentrification and precarious employment begin to enter the UK, we must acknowledge that those of minority backgrounds will be most impacted. And while research might suggest this is because of a lack of education or political misinformation, it is perhaps more likely because our voices are not being heard.”