FARAH AHMED

Farah Ahmed is the Climate Justice Lead at Julie’s Bicycle. She supports the dcuration of events and the Creative Climate Justice programme, developing resources, training and advocacy, connecting environmental, racial and social justice, and creative activism.

Her interest lies in how art can centre stories and solutions from the frontlines of climate impacts, and how we can imagine and enact decolonial and anti-capitalist ways of being.

Farah is also co-founder and facilitator of Diaspora Futures, a reflective space for people of colour to centre collective care in the face of the climate crisis. She is a trustee for Platform London, an art, activism, education and research organisation campaigning for social and ecological justice. She was on the sounding board for Arvae, a site-specific experiment in collaborative work between artists, scientists and regional environmental experts in Arosa, Switzerland, and was also on the oversight board for Art For The People, a citizen’s assembly on arts and culture in Coventry. She an alumni of the peer-led accelerator programme Huddlecraft and is also an Arts Emergency mentor, supporting young people into careers in the arts.