Looking for a powerful voice to inspire change? Book one of these inspiring activist social justice speakers for your next event or conference. Most social justice speakers are available for in person events as well as virtual engagements. These speakers have made a significant impact in their own countries, addressing key issues and supporting movements that shape their nation’s social justice landscape.
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Turned a famine appeal into a decades-long campaign on debt relief and aid policy, drawing on experience of public campaigning, policy advocacy and coalition-building around poverty, debt and international aid.
Social justice and corporate values through a conversational format, informed by a cross-generational pairing on justice and values-led business, drawing on a company known for taking positions that cost it money.
Builds low-cost technology for people that commercial markets have no reason to serve, including prosthetics delivered into a conflict zone, examining project-led technology designed for underserved communities.
Eye surgeon who built a way to deliver eye examinations by phone in places with no clinics, examining access to healthcare and the design of services for communities that are difficult to reach.
Invention, environmental science and a younger-generation perspective on plastic pollution, informed by an environmental scientist who developed a method for extracting microplastics from water while still at school.
Nobel Peace laureate who built a global coalition that produced an international treaty banning landmines, examining coalition-building, grassroots organisation and the process by which campaigners influence governments and international treaties.
A disability advocate, corporate learning executive, and columnist, analysing institutional ableism, accessibility rights, and inclusive culture frameworks to help global enterprises dismantle workplace barriers and build equitable environments for neurodivergent and disabled professionals.
Entrepreneurship, manufacturing and the challenge of scaling environmental alternatives in a price-sensitive market, drawing on experience building India's largest sustainable packaging business from agricultural waste.
Climate engagement, generational pressure and research on eco-anxiety and disengagement, informed by a climate activist and strategist who takes the generational argument directly into boardrooms.
Grassroots organising, women's leadership and collective action by people outside formal political authority, informed by a Nobel Peace laureate who organised a women's movement that helped bring an end to a civil war.
Public attention, ocean protection and direct engagement with government in environmental campaigning, from an endurance swimmer who has used attention around extreme swims to support ocean protection and negotiations with governments.
Polar exploration, preservation and using first-hand experience to build public support for environmental action, from a first person to walk to both poles, with extensive campaigning on Antarctic preservation.
The speakers on this page come to activism and social justice through different forms of experience, including campaigning, human rights, public policy, community organising, environmental action, journalism and institution-building.
A human-rights conference, leadership event, sustainability programme and discussion about social movements may all require different voices. Speaker Ideas can look closely at the speaker’s direct experience and the context in which they have worked, rather than assuming every activist or advocate fits every social-justice brief.
