serayna keya solanki
climate and environmental justice advocate
workshops - consultation - creative
leicester & london, UK
OFFERS
I work with environmental/social community projects and sustainability organisations wanting to support local community resilience or/and design for regenerative system change.
Here's an idea of the things I could help your project or organisation with:
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Facilitating you to better understand the importance and application of intersectional, internationalist and anti-oppression approaches.
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Facilitating a collective (personal) inquiry on the intersection of race and environmentalism throughout history to today, exploring realities of colonialism and communities of colour in the UK.
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Co-designing and embedding principles and practices to improve the quality of participation and access experiences (resources, direction and decision making power, enabling requirements for support).
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Co-designing and embedding principles and practices to defer to climate just demands in your long-term design process.
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Supporting you with framing frontline community-led climate justice and marginalised community realities in research, reports and blogs.
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Supporting you to design and embed climate justice-centred or/and PoC-centred frameworks, tools and approaches in education and training.
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Supporting you with participation, platforming/amplifying/centreing and engagement for events, activities and panels
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Supporting your organisation to support the causes and initiatives of diverse organisations
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Supporting your organisation to have the right structures in place when engaged with diverse participation
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Participating in workshops or in your organisation to stregthen the presence of a critical climate justice perspective in sustainability transition design spaces.
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Designing strategies for intl and local sustainability systems and projects for transition that are directly informed by frontline community climate justice principles + centre underserved communities in the UK.
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Using and showcasing art and creative practices (I'm a poet and embroidery artist!)
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(PoC communities and organisations) Being a helping hand for what you're already doing.
Skills: systems thinking / design thinking / process + project design / culture change / inclusive workshop design / workshop facilitation / strategist / lived experiences / community engagement / people and networks
ARTICLES
"Seeds, Sun and Birdsong"
Bhandani print on calico using turmeric dye + hand embroidery
"Nani"