Alex Lenferna

• Research fellow, University of Fort Hare

Dr Alex Lenferna is a Research Fellow at the Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Fort Hare. His research focuses on a transformative climate justice agenda, and aims to produce a range of publicly accessible scholarship to help deepen public understanding, education and mobilisation. The heart of Alex's work is scholar-activism, research that works to serve and be part of movements building a better, more just world. Alex is a first generation South African whose family hails from the small island nation of Mauritius. He has dedicated over sixteen years to research, writing, teaching, and activism on environmental and social justice, with a strong focus on energy and climate justice issues. His work, writing, and research is freely available at AlexLenferna

• 2025–present Research fellow, University of Fort Hare
• 2022–2024 Postdoctoral research fellow, Nelson Mandela University
• 2020–2024 General Secretary, Climate Justice Coalition
• 2019–2022 Climate justice campaigner, 350

• University of Washington, MA in Philosophy
• University of Kansas, Graduate Certificate in Environmental Studies
• University of Washington, Graduate Certificate in Climate Science
• 2018 University of Washington, PhD in Philosophy (climate ethics)
• 2012 Rhodes University, South Africa, MA in Philosophy

Fulbright, Endeavour, and Mandela Rhodes Scholar

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