Samira Siddique

BIOGRAPHY:

Samira Siddique is Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Center for Earth Ethics and an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Climate School. She has extensive experience in global climate change justice, spanning the politics of aid and development, climate displacement, and movement building around the spiritual, ethical, and cultural dimensions of the climate crisis. 

Previously, she was a Mellon Foundation Fellow in Climate and Inequality at the Climate Museum, where she supported public programming, education, and development for the museum’s first Manhattan pop-up. She has been a visiting scholar at the New School’s Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility and the International Centre for Climate Change and Development in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

For her research and advocacy, she has been awarded a Public Voices Fellowship with the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the Op-Ed Project, and a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship. Samira is a frequent speaker, moderator, and guest lecturer and has presented her work to several United Nations agencies and members of the US Congress, the State Department, and the Bangladesh government. 

She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and enjoys meandering walks, camping by the ocean and sitting in nature.