Céline Semaan
Céline Semaan is a Lebanese-Canadian researcher, designer, public speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and executive director of Slow Factory, an institute and lab that transforms socially and environmentally harmful systems by designing models that are good for the Earth and good for people. She currently sits on Progressive International’s Council alongside Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy and has published in Elle, the New York Magazine and Teen Vogue. Her inter-disciplinary work at the intersection of fashion, climate, and politics has been covered by numerous news and fashion outlets.
In Conversation:
- A Woman is Political
- On Art, Life & Activism: Nan Goldin, photographed by Mohamad Abdouni, interviewed by Céline Semaan
- Memo: Designing for our Freedoms
- From Exile to Empowerment: Rima Hassan on the Fight for Justice and Representation
- Interviewing the Interviewer: Prem Thakker on his Relentless Reporting on Gaza and U.S. Government Accountability
- Reclaiming Feminism and Collective Liberation: Mia Khalifa & Céline Semaan on Healing, Identity, and Political Awakening
- Exile to expression: how Lina Soualem’s film challenges colonial narratives
- Systemic Change is Difficult and Dangerous
- On Palestine: An Open Conversation with Noura Erakat