Samir Doshi

Samir Doshi is the director of Just Transitions at the CS Fund, working on supporting community power-building and self-determination through an intersectional approach to food and land sovereignty, worker justice, climate justice, grassroots democracy, and more for a future built on joy, justice, belonging, and liberation. Previously, Samir worked as an organizer and facilitator for movement organizations and communities pushing for transformational change and a Just Transition through a foundation of racial, gender, and intersectional justice. He worked for Obama Administration as a senior scientist and deputy division chief for USAID, where he led the Agency’s programming on agile development, responsible data, and disaster/emergency feedback systems so programming could be more responsive and adaptive to community needs on the ground. Prior to another career in academia, Samir worked as an environmental engineer and humanitarian responder for local organizations and Indigenous communities around the world in dozens of countries on six continents.