Ariana Akbari

Ariana Akbari is a female founder, climate activist, and artist-architect inspired by ritual, materiality, and storytelling. She is passionate about developing accessible, scalable strategies for new ventures - especially in social entrepreneurship, sustainability, the built environment, and the arts. She also enjoys creating high quality, engaging designs for outreach programs; leading from a place of inclusivity; and helping to make systems and spaces more effective, lively, and kind.

She founded and directs Climate Justice Texas, the only youth-focused environmental organization based on the petrochemical frontlines of Southeast Texas; moonlights as a bilingual project manager on construction sites for her family's residential and commercial building services, Aricon Construction & Maintenance, LLC ; and has been a freelance fine arts and architectural writer for various publications for over 10 years.

 Miss Akbari graduated from Harvard University, where she wrote an honors thesis on the creation of exploratory spaces of religious coexistence rooted in Islamic Art & Architecture and was a visiting scholar at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Currently based between Houston and Beaumont, Texas, she has also lived, studied, and worked abroad in cities like Rome, Italy; Mexico City, Mexico; Málaga, Spain; and Tokyo, Japan and generally delights in being a multilingual cultural chameleon.

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