Sheila Tahir

Born and raised in Bulbancha, Sheila holds an intense love for her home that is complicated by the systemic conditions that exist here. She has an intimate understanding of how racial and environmental injustices throughout Louisiana's history have shaped uneven geographies across the state, and how extractive economies such as chattel slavery and the oil and gas industry have helped perpetuate these divisions that have led to such stark disparities in terms of health, wealth, and opportunity. Sheila has a M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology and works for a local environmental justice organization, the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.