Advocate in Residence

Lauren Grant

Lauren is a researcher, advocate and educator specialized in environmental and climate-related mobility justice. Employing decolonial, feminist and rights-respecting approaches to intersecting environmental injustices, her work seeks to disrupt systemic, genocidal and epistemic forms of violence within the political economy of racial capitalist coloniality in climate-related loss and displacement. Lauren is the Founding Executive Director of Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC) and Founder, Academic Director of Curriculum & Critical Pedagogy, and Lead Instructor of the International School on Climate Mobilities (ISCM). She is Climate Mobility Advisor to Africa CSID, and serves on advisory committees for the Platform on Disaster Displacement and Earth Refuge. She has held research roles with SLYCAN Trust and the Global Centre for Climate Mobility. Lauren holds an MSc in Violence, Conflict and Development from SOAS University of London, an MA in Human Rights from Central European University, and a postgraduate International Human Rights Defender Certificate from the Foundations of Human Rights Protection and Constitutional and International Law Postgraduate Specialisation Programme. She is a TEDx speaker: Why care about climate migrants in an era of loss and damage.

lauren@beyondclimatecollaborative.org

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Advocate in residence project: Beyond Climate Collaborative

Lauren is the Founding Executive Director of Beyond Climate Collaborative (BCC). The BCC build bridges to support emerging leaders in their processes of (un)learning and (re)imagining how we think about and address climate-related (im)mobilities through the lenses of social, migrant, racial, feminist, economic and environmental justice.