Svetlana Chigozie Onye

Biography

Svetlana Chigozie Onye is a writer, journalist, COP Youth Delegate and researcher leading The Eco-Anxiety Africa Project, which examines the mental health impact of climate change across Africa and necessary community adaptations.

Her journalism highlights climate change's effects in the Global South. Her published work concerning climate change and culture can be in Shado Mag, SCREENSHOT, (Re)imagining Peace + Justice, Atwood Magazine, and The Eco-Anxiety Africa Project.

Selected for the Writers on the Rise Program by the Black British Book Festival and Pan MacMillan, she is also a Director of the UK Youth Climate Coalition, a TuWezeshe Young Women’s Leadership Fellow, and founder of Not Actually Radical.

She holds an MSc in the Politics of Conflict, Rights, and Justice. Her first-class dissertation, A False Conscious Liberation: How Colonial Christianity Was Used as a Weapon to Break Down the Traditional Igbo Tribe, was published by Joys Journal.