Discussions on building a climate-just future from our past knowledges with Tunisian climate activist Islam Zrelli
Lillie Aissa-Jeanrenaud & Illustration: Javie Huxley
JoinedJune 10, 2024
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Lillie Aissa-Jeanrenaud is an ecological storyteller and biocultural creative. Through filmmaking, writing and events, she attempts to reunite nature and culture. She has Amazigh roots, a community whose lifeways are nearing extinction in Tunisia. This gives Lillie a passion for preserving, storytelling and finding new ways to engage people with place. Lillie has worked with WWF-UK, The Eden Project and Slow Ways as well as grassroots environmental groups. This work reimagines nature movements, food systems and inner-city communities, putting urban, diaspora groups at the centre of climate justice. Lillie conducted independent research on biocultural diversity in New York City’s community gardens, specialising in migrant plant histories and their coevolution with diasporic communities in urban ecosystems. She also founded Love Letters To Landscapes and MENA for Environment: initiatives to increase diversity within environmentalism and showcase nature-culture linkages. She is a climate speaker and storyteller with the Environmental Funders Network. Lillie enjoys co-creation and dialogue, hosting a session about Reimaging Urban Nature at the Garden Museum. This reconnected us with our urban more-than-human community through conversation, vision boarding and meditation.