Ibrahim Bahati

Ibrahim Bahati is a PhD student in the Department of Geography & the Environment at the
University of Texas at Austin and a wellbeing/mental health life coach. His research
centers on everyday youth adaptive strategies to climate change shocks in rural Uganda and on Sugar Agroextractivism in East Africa. For more than 8 years, Ibrahim has made significant contributions across diverse fields, including food security, agrarian change, land-use politics in the Global South, climate adaptation and sustainability, global education, and, more recently, African youth livelihoods. He holds an MSc in Rural Community Development from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), an MA in Gender Studies from Makerere University (Uganda), and completed graduate training in Gender Equality in the Nordic Countries at the University of Oslo (Norway). Ibrahim is a passionate advocate for mental health and for the decolonization of African knowledge systems to reflect everyday lived realities, centering African experiences of life-making practices that shape human-environment relations in diverse ways.
In his free time, Ibrahim loves swimming, cooking, traveling, going to the gym, writing poetry, and fine dining.