Francisca Rockey
Community Organisers
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Activists & Campaigners
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
She/Her
Based: London
Francisca is an award-winning geographer and campaigner who is regularly involved in social campaigns, and charity fundraising. She is also a writer and public speaker featured in mainstream and online media. In April 2020, Francisca founded Black Geographers, an online network supporting the next generation of black geographers and geoscientists. The network has grown to a community of 13k+ individuals and has collaborated with a wide range of organisations from Earth Minutes, Delta Simons, Esri UK, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and Hudl Youth Development Agency, Natural Environment Research Council to Birmingham University, and The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
“Living in a utopia within your mind is good because you’re not just imagining what we live in now and the systems we live in now, the inequality we live with now - you’re actually thinking, ‘This is not the best it can be, it can be better’.”