Am Johal has previously been Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative and host of the podcast, Below the Radar. He is the author of 'Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene' (2015), co-author with Matt Hern of ‘Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale’ (2018) and 'O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology' (2024). He is currently Chair of the Vancouver International Film Festival, Vice Chair of Greenpeace Canada and a board member with the BC Alliance for Arts and Culture. He has presented his work internationally, including the Oxford Literature Festival.