Faiza Darkhani

Standing out from the crowd is a courageous decision. You must follow your dreams and turn them into realities, and my dream is having a clean and safe environment, free of war and all types of pollution. — Faiza Darkhani In 2021, she was part of the 100 Women BBC list, which includes the most inspiring and influential women in the world. Darkhani is one of the few scholars of climate change within Afghanistan.

From 2022 to 2024, she was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship holder and worked at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V. in Germany. She conducted and published research on the role of women in alternative food networks. Her work was also cited in the fourth German Gender Equality Report, published in 2025 by the Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth.

In 2024, Darkhani moved to Vancouver, Canada and started working as a doctoral student at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship. Her advisor is Sarah E. Gergel.