Samira Siddique is director of strategic initiatives at the Center for Earth Ethics. Her research is on global climate change justice, which she has studied through her work on the politics of aid and development in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, post-colonial environmental history in the Global South and climate migration to Asian megacities.

Prior to joining CEE, she was a Mellon Foundation Fellow in Climate and Inequality at the Climate Museum, where she developed public programming on climate change justice that supports people in understanding how personal experiences of power and inequality shape broader relationships with society and the environment. She has degrees from Wesleyan University and UC Berkeley, and 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 work, she was 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 has presented her work to members of the US Congress, the State Department, the UN Refugee Agency, the International Organization for Migration and the Bangladesh government. She collaborates with activists, artists, practitioners, and scientists around the world on climate change justice for displaced communities.

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