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Angela Findlay

Angela Findlay is a professional artist, writer and freelance lecturer with a long career of teaching art in prisons. Her time ‘behind bars’ and later as Arts Coordinator to the London-based Koestler Trust, gave her many insights into the huge potential the arts have to bring about change on personal as well as societal levels. In the past decade, Angela has been researching her Anglo-German roots and Germany’s little-known process of coming to terms with its Nazi past. This has led her into dark and uncomfortable places. But it also highlighted the intensely healing nature of talking about difficult histories and introduced her to fascinating and revealing art forms of national remembrance. Angela has a BA(Hons) in Fine Art, a Diploma in Artistic Therapy (specialising in colour) and her paintings have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. Her first book will be published by Penguin Transworld in early 2022.

Ann Finlayson

Ann Finlayson is the Executive Director and Founder of SEEd (Sustainability and Environmental Education). She was the only Commissioner for Education for the UK Sustainable Development Commission (2005-2011). Prior to this Ann was the Head of Education/Social Change at WWF-UK for 7 years. SEEd works with organisations, educators and policy makers to catalyse, deepen and broaden education for sustainability approaches in schools and other institutions. We are a Key Global Partner with UNESCO for working on whole institution approaches to sustainability. Ann has worked in academic research, education, schools, in management and as a consultant. After a stint as a countryside ranger in Scotland, she began travelling the world - Papua New Guinea, Australia and Canada. She has won awards in North America for training and evaluation tools. Ann’s particular interests are in the role of learning in sustainability, and the transformative and inclusive methodologies needed for sustainable living.

Dr Zareen Ahmed

Dr Zareen Roohi Ahmed holds a PhD in Multiculturalism and over a career spanning 25 years, she has held several senior roles. She is Chair of The Halimah Trust, a charity established in memory of her daughter; but is probably best known as the Founder & CEO of Gift Wellness, a social enterprise, championing an award-winning range of natural toiletries including vegan shampoo bars and sanitary pads. Gift sanitary products are sold across the Europe, and as part of their campaign to tackle period poverty, over 5.5 million pads have been donated to homeless and refugee women, foodbanks and schools. Dr Ahmed aims to empower women and girls of all backgrounds through a global movement to create an environment where they are respected and supported throughout their menstrual journey. Where periods are no longer dreaded or taboo, but instead are welcomed and celebrated as the superpower that all women posess.

Inez Aponte

Inez Aponte is a facilitator, educator and consultant in the Human Scale Development Approach, working with individuals and communities seeking to improve their quality of life in balance with the Earth’s ecology. With a background in art and performance, she focuses on the interplay between language, storytelling and behaviour change to help groups cultivate their ‘radical collective imagination’ - a capacity she believes is vital for the creation of a socially and ecologically just world. She has worked with a wide range of international audiences, including refugees, business leaders, community organisers and students from institutions such as Schumacher College, the Centre for Alternative Technology, London School of Economics and Lille Institute of Political Studies. She is founder of Growing Good Lives, Creative Director of Culture Garden and a fellow of The Schumacher Institute.

Jojo Mehta

With degrees from Oxford and London Universities and a background in communication, entrepreneurship and on-the-ground environmental activism, Jojo has a unique reputation for “getting things done” and likes nothing better than working to unusual parameters. She is a natural leader as well as a compelling public speaker and advocate. Alongside barrister and legal pioneer the late Polly Higgins, Jojo co-founded the Stop Ecocide campaign in 2017 to support the establishment of ecocide as a crime at the International Criminal Court. She now co-ordinates the growing international team engaged in this highly focused mission and is its key spokesperson. Jojo has contributed to law conferences, environmental summits, festivals and climate rallies as well as podcasts, interviews and articles for publications and broadcasters ranging from Extinction Rebellion to the BBC World Service and from the Ecologist to the New York Times.

Lucy Chan

Lucy Chan teaches mindfulness, self-compassion and Buddhism internationally. Over a decade ago she discovered mindfulness and self-compassion practices as a way to cope with burnout while working as a doctor in the NHS. Something clicked and she took time out to live in mindfulness centres where she learnt to move through life in a more balanced and loving way. Finding courage to stay true to her values, she is now an engaged activist; an inner activist practising and teaching radical self-acceptance worldwide, and an outer activist involved in peaceful protests in the spirit of creating a more compassionate and environmentally-sustainable world. Her passions include supporting fellow caregivers, and sustaining those who are working towards a more just and equal society. She is a director of the Stroud-based non-profit Mindful Living Retreats which is committed to nurturing safe and inclusive mindfulness communities that welcome people from all walks of life.

Nishita Dewan Shea

Nishita Dewan is the founder of CollaboratEQ. She designs bespoke Learning Journeys for organisations and indivdiduals to work in alignment and builds unlikely alliances across disciplines. She advises Leadership teams on how to harness diversity as a source of competitive advantage and uses co-design to build inclusive and safe environments to allow diversity to flourish. Prior to CollaboratEQ, Nishita dedicated the first decade of her career as a Management Consultant, before joining INSEAD. Post-MBA she joined Uber and resigned in 2016, after a period of blitz-scaling as the team grew from 20 to 200. Upon leaving, she committed to pursuing a career path in alignment with her values. She has worked across the US, UK, Asia, and the Nordics. Clients include The British Academy, The Wellcome Trust, Virgin, The RSA, and Nesta. She is also a Board Trustee for Cockpit Arts, a business incubator and studio for 170 craftspeople in London. Nishita works in a networked way, curating connections across diverse networks. She is a member of The Weaving Lab and the Point People, a collective of systems change practitioners.

Shalize Nicholas

Shalize is the designer & director of Madia & Matilda, a luxury sustainable and ethical lifestyle brand dedicated to designing effortlessly minimal and elegant clothing with retro referencing. She has an honours degree in Fashion Design & Technology from Manchester Metropolitan University with a placement year at Littlewoods & Very as an Assistant Ladieswear Designer. In 2013 she launched Madia & Matilda and began her journey pioneering Sustainable and Ethical clothing. Since launching in 2013 Madia & Matilda has been applauded and awarded accreditation, winning awards for sustainable initiative. Shalize has built the brand from a 15 piece up-cycled collection to a 60 piece, ready to wear collection. The biggest achievement to date was a showcase at Saint Martin’s in Fields and the opening of her first store in the Cotswolds.