LaSalle, Ontario, Canada
Iman Berry is the co-founder of Green Ummah (GU), a federally registered non-profit focused on providing education related to religious connections to the environment and environmental justice to young people all over Canada. GU works with educators, nature guides, Indigenous communities, and scientists to develop school curriculums about environmental justice and Islam and the Environment. In each classroom, the curriculum is taught, and students are brought on field trips to local nature areas to build relationships with the land. To date, GU has provided 1000s of students with this experience. In addition to GU, Iman has also worked to provide education about the relationship between climate and politics through lobbying, organizing political debates and education campaigns. For her work with Green Ummah and other organizations Iman has been honoured as a top 25 under 25 environmentalist and Young Nature leader for the year in Canada.
Reducing inequality in the environmental space
Financing Renewable Energy Projects
Completed research with two professors during my study abroad semester in Istanbul, Türkiye: Project 1: Researching support for NAGs in the Middle East and LATAM Project 2: Researching China's role in Climate Change Politics/ Renewable Energy Politics
Transportation/Defence/Public Sector