Bridging Climate Justice, AI Governance, and Feminist Tech
Policy Communications
Human rights law
ETHICAL PUBLIC RELATIONS
I help companies, executives, philanthropic funders, and organizations navigate the intersection of AI governance, climate justice, feminist technology, and human rights policy, and understand who current frameworks are failing to protect
30+ ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTED
The frameworks exist. The gaps are by design.
Climate finance that flows North while climate breakdown lands South
Corporate accountability standards that apply in Brussels and nowhere else
National security exceptions that erase rights exactly where they're most needed
Philanthropic resources that miss the frontline organisations doing the hardest work
the work
10 years of movement communications. 1 rigorous, public argument about who power keeps leaving behind, how, and why.
125+
Countries of grassroots climate work
The communities AI governance keeps forgetting are the ones I work with.
Leading communications across 125+ countries through Global Greengrants Fund's community-led advisory network means I do not theorise about who AI frameworks fail to protect. I work with them. That proximity is what makes the governance analysis specific rather than abstract.
Scale teaches you what frameworks miss at the margins.
Coordinating narrative strategy across 460+ organisations in Global Alliance for Green and Gender Action (GAGGA) showed me exactly where corporate accountability standards, bilateral donor frameworks, and governance processes break down, long before I started applying the same analysis to AI. The pattern is the same. The communities bearing the cost are the same.
460+
Orgs in feminist climate alliance
My Argument
MY APPROACH
From primary source to public argument.
01
Read everything
The actual text. The footnotes. The appendices. EU AI Act Article 2(3). Paragraph 37 of A/HRC/62/48. The session transcripts.
02
Find the gap
What is named and then not acted on. What is absent by design rather than by accident. What the framework cannot say without dismantling itself.
03
Make the argument
Precisely, publicly, with citations. In language that reaches both policy audiences and the communities the analysis is actually about.
04
Start again
Every answer opens three more questions. The argument grows by following what the evidence reveals, not by deciding in advance where it ends.
ABOUT
The person behind the work
Dalit, queer, non-binary, and neurodivergent. LLM in International Human Rights Law. A decade in feminist movement communications across 125+ countries. Currently Director of Communications and Influencing at Global Greengrants Fund.
Multimedia and Publications
Insights & Ideas
FAQ
What is the state-as-violator problem in AI governance?
International AI governance frameworks position states as the primary duty-bearers responsible for protecting populations from AI-enabled harm. But when the state is itself deploying AI surveillance against activists, defenders, and criminalized communities, that entire protection architecture fails structurally. The problem is not implementation — it is architectural.
What communities does your AI governance research focus on?
Women human rights defenders, LGBTQI+ activists in criminalising jurisdictions, and environmental defenders whose states deploy AI surveillance against them. These three populations share a common structural problem: the governance frameworks that claim to protect them are built around an assumption of state good faith that does not hold for their specific situations.
Where can I read your published work?
Alliance Magazine, Repro Uncensored, and LinkedIn. The most comprehensive pieces are the investigative research on Meta's surveillance architecture (Repro Uncensored, July 2026) and the full analysis of the UN's first Global Dialogue on AI Governance (LinkedIn, July 2026).
Are you available for speaking, consulting, or collaboration?
Yes. I am open to conversations about AI governance research, policy communications, feminist technology, and climate justice. Reach me at suman@commsforacause.org
