Founding Executive Director
Nairobi, Kenya
Lauren is a researcher, advocate, and educator committed to advancing environmental and climate mobility justice. Grounded in decolonial, feminist, and rights-based approaches, her work interrogates how climate-related loss, displacement, and immobility are produced through racial capitalist and colonial political economies, and seeks to disrupt the systemic, genocidal, and epistemic forms of violence embedded within them. Lauren is the Founding Executive Director of Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC), and the Founder, Academic Director of Curriculum & Critical Pedagogy, and Lead Instructor of the International School on Climate Mobilities (ISCM). She is Climate Mobility Advisor to the Africa Centre for Sustainable and Inclusive Development (Africa CSID) and sits on advisory committees for the UN Platform on Disaster Displacement and Earth Refuge. She has contributed research, advocacy, curriculum development, programming and leadership to a range of organizations, including the Global Centre for Climate Mobility, SLYCAN Trust, Minority Rights Group, Scholars at Risk Network, Diar Foundation, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Háttér Society, Takamul Centre for Studies and Research, Amnesty International Canada, Voz Worker's Rights Education Project, and the Guatemala Human Rights Commission. Lauren holds an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS University of London and MA in Human Rights from Central European University. She completed a BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies through studies at the University of British Columbia, Lancaster University, and Oregon State University, and holds an International Human Rights Defender Certificate. Lauren is a TEDx speaker: Why care about climate migrants in an era of loss and damage.
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"
- Alice Walker
