Sina Trölenberg is a human geographer with emphasis on political ecology, international environmental conflicts, and environmental peacebuilding. She holds a Master’s degree in Human-Environment Interactions (JLU Giessen) and a double Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Spanish Studies. Her regional focus is on Latin America, specifically Colombia, as well as on European climate politics and local protest movements. Currently, she is part of the NGO “Romero Initiative” and working closely with central American human rights activists in the context of a climate justice project carried out in Europe.

Country/Region of Interest/Focus of Research: Latin America, Europe

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Dr. Liv Yoon’s research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequity, and health, with a focus on community engagement work. As a social scientist, she approaches climate change as a sociopolitical crisis. Her research is focused on taking climate change as an opportunity to challenge the status quo and promote structural changes that alleviate social inequities that both led to, and are exacerbated by, the climate crisis.

Dr. Yoon obtained her Ph.D. at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in Sociocultural Kinesiology. Her training in socio-cultural studies informs her to think about bodies in sociopolitical context. Applied to climate change, this means thinking about how some bodies are considered more ‘dispensable’, and in turn, rendered more vulnerable to climate-related risks and pollution.

She is a Fellow with the New York City Panel on Climate Change – Health Working Group, a member of the Community Engagement Core at the Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan, and member of Columbia University’s Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities (EJCJC).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: North America (but not limited to it)

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Afifa Khalid is part of the Coordination Team of the EnJust Network at CAU – Kiel. She supports international collaboration and knowledge exchange on environmental and climate justice, connecting researchers, practitioners, artists, and civil society actors across disciplines and regions.

With a background in agribusiness and sustainable supply chains in Pakistan, her work has focused on reducing food loss, improving post-harvest management, and developing value-added agricultural products. She is also actively engaged in social entrepreneurship initiatives that support women-led businesses, skills development, and community empowerment.

Her current work explores circular economy approaches and the repurposing of materials through collaborative and community-based projects. She is particularly interested in participatory and transdisciplinary approaches that connect environmental justice, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and local knowledge. Through her work with EnJust, she contributes to conferences, workshops, public engagement activities, and collaborative projects that promote dialogue on environmental conflicts, democratic participation, and just sustainability transformations.

Anna-Lena Mieke is a PhD student in Environmental Science with a focus on social ecological system research at the University of Vienna, Austria. As a member of the Justice and Conservation Research Group, she contributes to interdisciplinary work on conservation and justice within complex social ecological systems. Her main research interests include political ecology, environmental justice, and the analysis of human environment relations, with particular attention to conservation conflicts and governance. Her work engages critically with the historical and contemporary role of colonial structures in nature conservation and examines how these continue to shape present day dynamics.

Anna-Lena Mieke PhD research investigates how power dynamics are embedded in conservation initiatives and how reflexive practice can help to deconstruct power asymmetries. Her work aims to contribute to more just and context sensitive conservation practices.

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Africa

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Thomas Bobo is a Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (United Kingdom). His research focuses on the intersection of internal violent conflicts and the environment from a political and discursive perspective. Before starting his doctoral research, he worked in international biodiversity governance at the French Agency for International Technical Cooperation. Thomas is particularly interested in the construction of competing ecological visions and how they become vehicles of power struggles between actors in conflict. He explores how those ecological discourses emerge, evolve and are utilised in the context of the rise of environmental issues in the international, national and local political agendas. Thomas‘s current research focuses on the Zapatista conflict in the State of Chiapas (Mexico).

Country/Region of interest/research focus: Environmental discourse in Chiapas, Mexico, and more broadly in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East

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