Congratulations to OreOluwa Badaki whose project Amplifying Climate Change Education and Communication in Brazil was awarded a grant from the Columbia Global Center! Read more about her project below. 

Project: Amplifying Climate Change Education and Communication in Brazil

OreOluwa Badaki is a postdoctoral fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University. Bridging research in critical literacy studies, multimodal scholarship, and environmental justice, she examines how power moves through bodies and spaces within food and land systems. As a writer, movement practitioner, and educator, Badaki works with youth and communities to explore environmental justice through the creative and performing arts. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, where her dissertation on the creative literacy practices of youth of color working in urban agriculture received the Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice. Prior to her doctoral work, Badaki was a middle school language arts teacher and an education researcher with the United Nations, focusing on education for sustainable development and the cultural and creative industries. Badaki’s current projects focus on embodied understandings of place and center African diasporic experiences with food and land.

 

"I'm grateful for this opportunity to build on existing collaborations with Brazilian scholars, artists, activists and educators who are telling more robust and incisive stories about climate change. I look forward to deepening my work in creative climate education and communications by spending more time with collectives in Brazil that are asking similar questions as I am about the the intersections between African diasporic dance and agricultural traditions, and the implications of these intersections for climate justice movements."