JUSTIN KENRICK

Justin Kenrick focuses on supporting the life-reclaiming work of communities, ecologies and democracies.

He co-founded Heartpolitics to help enable Grassroots to Global Assemblies, chairs Action Porty which undertook the first successful urban community right to buy in Scotland, writes in many contexts, is active in the Extinction Rebellion Scotland Political Strategy circle, and was on the Stewarding Group of the Scottish Government’s Climate Citizens Assembly which Extinction Rebellion Scotland campaigned for but ultimately had to leave.  

Justin is an anthropologist and Senior Policy Advisor at Forest Peoples Programme where he works for community land rights in Kenya and Congo, and where he seeks to help reshape conservation so it is based on supporting communities to deepen their relations with their lands, not on evicting them from their land. 

He has a PhD in anthropology, trained in Buddhist psychotherapy, is a Quaker and has been imprisoned several times for peaceful direct action. He works to enable people to safely risk taking the steps needed to restore trust in themselves, their community, society and the world.