Samiha Hoque is a Bangladeshi-American environmentalist and co-founder of the independent publishing house Shaherazad Shelves. She was a Climate Justice Fellow at the University of Maryland in 2024 and holds a B.S. in the Earth and Environmental Sciences with an English minor. Her debut novel, Slums of Paradise, was selected as a winner of the She Writes Press STEP contest and is forthcoming in Summer 2026. She is a Master’s candidate at NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, studying the intersection of environmental conservation in medieval religious poetry. Samiha’s essays have won the Dean Myrtle Saxon-Jacobson Award in Expository Prose and were nominated for the 2021 Brooklyn Non Fiction Prize. She resides in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born and raised.
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Since 2011, CEEJH INC has partnered with front-line and fence-line communities to address environmental, climate, and energy injustices through grassroots action and policy co-creation. We center those most impacted by harm to lead action and social change.
