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Emily Wanja
- Location:
- Kenya
- Languages:
- English, Swahili
- Issues:
- Climate Change, Economic Injustice
- Expertise:
- Impact Strategist/Advisor
- Cultural/racial identity:
- African
- Self identification:
- Woman
Bio
Emily Wanja - Impact Producer | Global Community Manager (Doc Society Climate Story Unit) Emily Wanja uses storytelling to drive social change. She works in collaboration with organisations, people and communities that imagine a more just world is possible. She is an award-winning Impact producer for the campaign ‘We Can Fight Climate Change’ for the international feature documentary, ‘Thank you for the Rain’. In conjunction with Docubox, she has worked with policymakers across national and county governments, private stakeholders, funders, civil society, and communities, using film as a tool for advocacy. She’s on the Climate Justice Resilience Fund Advisory Council and on the Global Impact Producers Alliance Transitional Committee. She is the Climate Story Lab Africa Lead. Emily Wanja works at Doc Society as the global community manager at the Climate Story Unit.