How can art and science inform each other to communicate compelling information about the climate crisis? This series of talks brings together climate scientists and artists to discuss their practices, communities, and narratives around climate change.

Tiana Malina Te Rongopatahi Mo’iha is a Kanaka Maoli and Tongan cultural practitioner of multi-ethnic ancestry, originally from Hāna, Maui. She currently divides her time between Hawai‘i and Aotearoa, where she lives with her wife and keiki. She is the 2025 Artist in Residence, Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, as well as the CEO of 'Indi-geniUS mind(s)'; a Cultural Educator with 'Purple Maia'; and an Indigenous Engineer and Architect trained through 'Halau Hale Kuhikuhi', under renowned hale builder Kumu Francis Sinenci. Her practice weaves together ancestral technologies and creative expression – from hale building, aho braiding, and lei making, to ukulele, mele, and mo‘olelo (storytelling). Tiana is guided by a commitment to relational knowledge-sharing, healing, and Indigenous innovation. Her work builds connection – to each other, to place, and to the futures we are collectively shaping.

Hetxw’ms Gyetxw (Brett) is a proud member of the Gitxsan Nation from the Northwest Interior of British Columbia, Canada and a multi-award-winning author. He is the Founder and President of Aluu’taa, an Indigenous research and research support hub, and a member of the AF2025 Scientific Steering Committee.  

Chandni Singh is an international climate scholar working at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements on issues of climate change adaptation, differential vulnerability and wellbeing, disaster risk and recovery, livelihood transitions, and rural-urban migration. She was a Lead Author of the IPCC’s Assessment Report 6 in 2022 on ‘Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability’ and has led and collaborated on diverse programmes with Reading University (UK), Bio-Diversity International (Italy), Pragya, and WWF India across South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.