Ashish Ghadiali
Ashish Ghadiali is Radical Ecology’s Founder/Director. He explores the intersections of racial justice, art and ecology through text, film, activism and performance. Moving image works include the film installations Can you tell the time of a running river? (2024), Invasion Ecology (2024), Planetary Imagination (2023) and the feature documentary, The Confession (2016). Performance works include Where do we go when we realise that we can’t go back to nature? (2024) and A Silent Walk (2023). Curatorial credits include the exhibition Against Apartheid (2023) at KARST and public programmes including Migrant Futurism (2023) at the Southbank Centre, Equilibrium (2022) at Serpentine and Sensing the Planet (2021) at Dartington Hall. He was a co-author of the paper, Quantifying the Human Cost of Global Warming (2023) for Nature Sustainability and is a frequent contributor on art, literature and the environment for the Guardian and The Observer. In 2021, he led on political strategy for the COP26 civil society coalition and was activist-in-residence at UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the study of racism and racialisation. He is currently working on a book, Dart River, for Hutchinson Heinemann. Through it, he explores the psychogeographies of empire in the corner of rural South-West England where he lives.
Debs Ashfield
Debs Ashfield is our Development Researcher. She is currently undertaking an AHRC-SWWDTP-funded PhD in Environmental Humanities, a collaborative project between the University of Exeter and the University of Southampton. Her interdisciplinary research spans critical technology studies, poetry, sound studies and environmental sciences, informed by a strong commitment to anti-colonial practice, environmental justice and community organising. At Radical Ecology, Debs leads on development research with a particular focus on capacity building—supporting the organisation’s growth through strategic partnerships, funding opportunities and infrastructure for long-term sustainability. She brings a relational approach to her work, centring inclusive practices and co-creative methodologies that foster resilience and autonomy within Radical Ecology’s environmental and cultural networks.
Iman Datoo
Iman Datoo is Head of Research and Community at Radical Ecology, where she brings a longstanding commitment to ecological justice and interdisciplinary practice. She has been part of Radical Ecology’s journey from the beginning—co-facilitating Equilibrium at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, contributing as an artist to Against Apartheid and Invasion Ecology, and crafting our low-carbon website. Most recently, she led the 100 Year Care Plan (2025), commissioned by Natural England. Her work spans art, systems, and speculative ecologies, using botany and cartography to explore the relationships between plants, soils and people. Imagination is central to her approach, guiding investigations into more-than-human agency and futures beyond extractivism. Recent projects include Movement is Natural (2024), Kinnomic Botany (2020-22) and Soil-Brain, Gut-Brain (2023). In this role, Iman is overseeing the evolution of Radical Ecology’s research questions and networks, while also pursuing a funded PhD across UCL Slade, UCL Bartlett and the Eden Project.
Megan Roberts
Megan Roberts is our Media Producer. Meg is a filmmaker and artist whose practice is rooted in collaboration and co-design. Through participatory filmmaking, she amplifies marginalised voices and explores urgent social and environmental issues in partnership with communities, researchers, and advocacy organisations. She has worked with groups including Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support, Say No to Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), The Routes to Wellness Project, Cornwall Climate Care, and 99p Films. Her recent three-screen film, In Conversation with Plymouth Hoe, created for The Box’s Re-Imagining the Film Archives programme, exemplifies her approach. Developed in response to the anti-immigration unrest of 2024, the piece layers archival footage with contemporary interviews to explore how public space in Plymouth is shaped and reclaimed through power, class, civic joy, and shared memory. Megan’s practice centres civic joy as a tool for resilience, exploring spaces where collective care and resistance thrive. Her current commission for Plymouth Culture’s Sea for Yourself programme marks a shift into installation-based, co-created works that place communities at the heart of both process and outcome. She joins Radical Ecology to develop a film unit, furthering community exploration of the intersections between art, ecology, and social change - using film to challenge divisive narratives and support more inclusive, hopeful futures.
Laila Shah
Laila Shah is our Communications and Research Producer. A recent graduate from the University of Oxford’s Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology (MSc) programme, she brings a deep engagement with storytelling, dreaming and alternative modes of expanding imagination as central to knowledge production. Her research interests span from engaging with the intersections of decoloniality and surrealism, DIY cinema as a spatially-located practice to ecologically informed and “pluriversal” approaches to making in museum contexts. She also explores digital ecologies and multi-modal methods, including photography and participatory artmaking, for experimenting with the unbounded nature of space and cityscapes. She has previously worked with the Fowler Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum, as well as community led organisations including the Bristol Palestine Museum and Cultural Centre and the Cube Microplex.
Megan Wilson-De La Mare
Megan Wilson-De La Mare is our Studio and Operations Manager. Her photographic background and education, as well as engagement with participatory practices, informs her approach to developing a community-centred programme. Her previous experience spans operations and arts administration, education, photography, and community engagement. Her exploration into participatory practice began during her residency with Knowle West Media Centre and project Salt of the Earth in 2018, which led her to form deep local relationships and explore the history through personal stories and archival material. Her writing similarly has explored themes of collaborative practice, play therapy, and performance photography, and from 2020-2023 she contributed to Loupe magazine as Online Editor.