Community Affiliate
Christian Favreau is a poet, storyteller, and climate justice organizer currently living in Tiohtiá:ke. He is a long-time member of Climate Justice Montreal (CJM), a non-hierarchical, consensus-based grassroots group that organizes in solidarity with frontline communities most directly affected by the climate crisis. Within CJM, he works primarily on its Beyond Fares campaign for free, expanded, and accessible public transit. As the Learning & Storytelling Lead at the SHIFT Centre for Social Transformation, he convenes community members and researchers through events that reflect on and explore community-building and social justice. Christian also supports SHIFT’s network of over 50 community organizations by collaborating on multimedia storytelling that communicates and mobilizes the organizations’ knowledges of and approaches to systems-change. He is the author of two poetry chapbooks: kireji: partial portraits and biofictions (JackPine Press, 2021) and le (petit) filet d’indra (Cactus Press, 2022). Foundational to his overlapping political and artistic work are critical-thinking, decolonization, community weaving, and radical imagination. He is also very fond of birds.
