Bio

Aliya Jasmine “AJ” is an award-winning filmmaker, environmental journalist, and public climate storyteller whose work sits at the intersection of climate solutions, wildlife, and belonging. Her stories have appeared on CBC, NBC News, MTV News, Discovery Channel, and Smithsonian Channel, and she has built a large trusted online community through years of broadcast journalism, digital-first reporting, and environmental storytelling.

AJ is Founder and CEO of Earth Tones, a purpose-driven media company amplifying underrepresented voices in environmental storytelling. Through Earth Tones, she develops film, television, social-first, and impact storytelling projects that make complex ecological issues accessible, emotional, and useful to public audiences.

AJ directed, wrote, and produced Bird Names, a CBC Short Docs documentary with an impact campaign spanning private, public, academic, and conservation-facing screenings. She is also directing Lion Bridge, an independent feature documentary about Los Angeles’ urban mountain lions and the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, and developing Hot Flashes, Cold Oceans for CBC’s flagship science/nature series The Nature of Things. She is a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal for journalism in service of Canada, a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and serves on the board of Nature United. She holds a Master’s in Environmental Journalism from USC and a bilingual BA in Communications from the University of Ottawa.