Kai Reimer-Watts

Kai Reimer-Watts is a Laurier PhD student in Community Psychology; social change filmmaker; and local climate justice advocate, including an active member of the student-led advocacy group Climate Justice Laurier. Kai's research and creative work explores the rich intersection of climate storytelling, the visual arts, movement-building and grassroots activism, centering on the powerful role of ‘signposts’ in both unifying and mobilizing a collective response to the climate crisis. At a local level, Kai led the "Climate is Life" mural project on Laurier's Waterloo campus, engaging several hundred people from across Laurier in its creation in Fall 2019. Kai’s work as a research fellow at VERiS includes contributing as a researcher / interviewer to the evolv1 building story project; and co-instructor and co-developer of the Just Recovery(ies) workshop series to encourage students to develop core advocacy skills held over summer 2020, among other projects.