Enna Uwaifo
She/Her
Based: London, UK
Organisation:
Red Hot
Enna is a people-centered sustainability professional. She has worked in both Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability for 4 years. Before her professional career, she volunteered in the Young Historians Project, Groundwork Youth UK and FORWARD UK. Last year, for her Masters in Global Development and Environment, she travelled to Ghana to investigate socio-economic conditions second-hand fashion traders in Kantamanto market and the environmental impacts of the trade. She strongly believes that poverty alleviation should be at the heart of environmental efforts, to do this, she uses design thinking and interdisciplinary methods to produce insights that aim to tackle both issues at the same time.
From my Substack article titled Playing in the impossible: the significance of the radical imagination. “Therefore the limits of the realist is that the realist can only build solutions within in a knowable world, often mediated through existence of data to “know the world”. There are many sacrifice zones that are probably still unknown. Those invested in the radical imagination, the idealists, are invested in revealing what is unknown and contributing and building a world that is currently unknown. It is up to each practitioner to decide who they will be at any given moment“