Ki’Amber Thompson

Ki’Amber Thompson is an abolitionist environmental justice educator, healing justice practitioner, multimedia artist, and PhD candidate at the University of California Santa Cruz. They are the Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Charles Roundtree Bloom Project (@crbloomproject), an outdoor healing justice program for youth impacted by criminalization, policing, and incarceration. Their work bridges abolition, decolonial, and environmental justice movements toward imagining and creating more socially and environmentally just and sustainable worlds. Ki'Amber has done social and environmental justice research, storytelling, and organizing across the globe, including in North and South America and Southeast Asia. Ki’Amber's work has been recognized locally and nationally, and she has received several awards, including Grist 50 Fixers and EE 30 Under 30.