Sanjana Sekhar is a South Indian-American

author, filmmaker, and climate activist.

 

With an eye to strategic communication and systems-thinking storytelling, her work crafts "thrutopian" stories aimed at making climate action the hottest place to be. Lensed with climate justice, radical imagination, and adrienne maree brown's "pleasure activism," Sanjana's focus is on reclaiming and healing extractive narratives to instead build a healthy human future on Earth. She’s been featured in the Hollywood Climate Summit, Tedx Climate AcrosstheAmericas, and the Webby Honorees, and she’s worked with organizations such as the Center for Cultural Power, Visit California, and The Washington Post. Sanjana’s first feature documentary Expedition Reclamation follows twelve everyday Black, Indigenous, and women of color redefining “outdoorsy” and reclaiming belonging in outdoor recreation. It was awarded Best in Festival at the 2022 No Man's Land Film Festival. The film has screened in 15+ festivals, along the way also winning Best Climate Documentary and Best Environmental Film, and in over 40 community screenings around the country. As the founder of creative studio GARMI, Sanjana is currently bringing her climate communication into auto-ethnographic newsletters, speculative fiction, music, and more. Her latest short story “Cabbage Koora: A Prognostic Autobiography” was a winner of Grist’s Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction Contest, in partnership with the NRDC, and is published in the cli-fi anthology Metamorphosis. 

 

Sanjana is based in Los Angeles on Tongva land.