Maya Bhardwaj (she/they) is a queer South Indian American scholar-activist, community organizer, consultant to social movements, writer, musician and artist, currently based in London.
Maya’s consulting supports organising projects that seek to dismantle racial capitalism, caste apartheid, and cisheteropatriarchy through strengthening movement resources around structure, strategy, and narrative change. Their research explores queer of color politics and culture in diaspora, with specific focus on South Asian diasporic leftism and the possibility of Black and Brown solidarities. This draws on fifteen years of lived experience within social movements across the US, Europe, Latin America, South Asia, and Southern Africa.
Maya is also a practicing violinist and visual artist with various collectives. Maya holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Pretoria, a MSc from SOAS, University of London, and a BA from Northwestern University. Maya has been working with us here at PIRC since 2020, with narrative research, facilitation, strategic guidance and mentorship.
Selina is an award winning writer, researcher and strategic advisor, who has worked extensively across the civic sector.
She is the founder and director of Echi, a strategic change consultancy that helps groups, organisations and movements evolve amid complex change. She has also been a voice for climate justice for over 10 years, working with a number of grassroots, charity and arts organisations to strengthen narratives around the gaps between race, justice and the climate crisis.
Her latest book Black Climates is an exploration of Blackness and climate breakdown within the bigger context of polycrisis.
Tamara-Jade is a PIRC associate, freelance trainer and facilitator with a decade of experience working with social change-focused groups.
She specialises in developing bespoke programmes and workshops that challenge groups to reflect on strategy, structural power, group culture and relationships. Her background also includes working in and organising around gendered violence prevention from a Black feminist, abolitionist perspective.
She is an associate trainer with the training collective, Resist + Renew, and on the board of directors for Good Night Out Campaign. She is also a visual notetaker and illustrator in movement spaces.
