Climate Reframe: Amplifying BAME Voices in the UK Environmental Movement

Joycelyn Longdon

Academics & Education
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Activists & Campaigners
Environmentalism & Well-being
Journalists & Writers
Also working within:
Activists & Campaigners
Environmentalism & Well-being
Journalists & Writers
Based: Cambridge

Joycelyn is an award-winning environmental justice researcher and educator. Her PhD research at the University of Cambridge centres on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana. Her work makes more accessible topics of climate justice, climate colonialism, activism, creativity and systems change across a variety of forums on and offline and for platforms including Meta, The United Nations Geneva Dialogues, Channel 4, Cheltenham Science Festival, Oxford University, The National Lottery, The Design Council and The Wellcome Collection. Joycelyn was 2022’s winner of the Emerging Designer London Design Medal, was featured in British Vogue’s December 2023 ‘Forces for Change’ Issue and is a and is a TEDx Alumni. Most recently, she has been listed as one of Pique Action and Harvard Chan C-CHANGE's 2024 Climate Creators to Watch and as one of Country and Town House’s Future Icons Power People 2024.Her debut book, Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom and Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action was published in 2025.

 

“There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.” Donella Meadows