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Changemaker Media is a community for everyone who is passionate about protecting the planet, people, wildlife and biodiversity. We share inspiring stories for eco living, news and features on green innovations, climate change, campaigns, podcasts and events.
WE WANT YOU TO JOIN US – as a writer, a photographer, videographer or eco-artist. Please click on BE A CHANGEMAKER below and complete the short form.
Changemaker Media is a social impact website and social media platform, run by volunteers and designed to support the work of those who care about our amazing Planet Earth. Our first two part-time interns – Ali (photographer) and Olivia (writer) secured their sustainability-focussed roles following two months with Changemaker Media.
Changemaker(R) is a UK registered trademark.
Please also follow us on Instagram @changemaker_media, and @changemaker.marketplace. You can email the team: hello@changemaker.media
Emily is the Presenter, Producer and Founder of Green Britain TV. She inspired Changemaker. A member of the Post-Growth Institute, she wrote her Masters dissertation (Global Development, Copenhagen University) on the PGI’s Offers and Needs Market. Her Masters is in International Development (University of Copenhagen) and her degree is in Anthropology (University of Kent). A windsurfing teacher, Spanish student and singer, Emily inspired Changemaker and contributes written stories, videography and research to our website.
Emily has volunteered and worked with charities and organisations including GoDharmic and Child.org. Her passion for societal change includes promoting the issues of food poverty, debt, over-consumption, climate change and sustainable travel. Find her on green innovations at: www.greenbritain.com
Olivia landed a dream internship with the Carbon Capture and Storage Association in London and credits her work experience on Changemaker Media as playing a supporting role in her success. She graduated from Nottingham University (2022), having studied Liberal Arts with a major in Politics. Olivia believes it is imperative to address the interwoven relationship between capitalism and the expropriation of nature and is particularly interested in tackling issues of food waste, especially after having seen the excessive amounts of food thrown away when working at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships. She adores her goldendoodle named Kobe and spends a tad too much time shopping for second-hand clothes.
Molly is a poet, freelance writer/editor, and ESL Teacher with a devotion to protecting the environment and helping the vulnerable.
She graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University in 2021, during which she worked as an NHS volunteer. She completed a TEFL soon after and taught English to children in Vietnam.
Molly believes that one of the fundamental issues surrounding the environment is the perception of our separateness from the natural world and therefore, our inability to empathise with it. Her MA dissertation allowed for a poetic exploration of the human/non-human relationship through a full-length collection of poems.
An avid yogi, vegan, traveller and French student, Molly has had poems appear in print and online, while she publishes original poems and readings online weekly.
Lucy has come from a media and communications background, having previously worked in luxury fashion and beauty PR and corporate communications for clients such as Yoox net-a-porter, Forbes and The Independent.
She has a deep passion for social change and sustainability previously working for Byline Times, where she was a coordinator for the Byline Festival, an annual gathering aiming to drive social change and to hold the modern media to account. More recently she has co-founded Calou, a luxury fashion e-commerce and rental and sustainable styling service.
Ali secured a position as a photographer and stylist with a childrenswear company – and reports that her work on Changemaker Media was a big help to her. She is a photographer based in the South East. At university she studied Commercial Photography where she specialised in fashion.
Ali is passionate about travelling and loves the excitement of discovering natural landscapes and creating videos.
For Changemaker, Ali enjoys sourcing the work of other photographers and showcasing the countries she has been to. Sustainability is important to her – she is vegan and always travels light. She has just started a fabulous new job with a childrenswear company and reports that her work on the Changemaker website helped her through the interview process. Go Ali!
Ottilie graduated from the University of Nottingham (2022) with a degree in English. She covers political stories for Changemaker and is particularly interested in the link between feminism and the environment, exploring the sexual politics of not eating meat for her university projects. Ottilie organised and co-hosted a podcast series called “The Science Show” to engage students and specialists in discussions about environmental politics. She is an avid reader and a fan of green tea.
Instagram @ottilieowen
Madi studied Social Anthropology and graduated from the University of Manchester in 2020. She went on to study a journalism MA, combining her interest in people and their passions with her love for writing.
As a life-long jewellery lover, she now enjoys writing and researching vintage and modern jewellery and her fatal flaw is spending all her money on rings and pendants. Her final project in her MA was on sustainable jewellery, showcasing the ways jewellery can be repurposed and exposing the not-so-sustainable practices that exist to this day.
She currently works as a copywriter for a charity in London and spends her free time writing about anything that interests her.
Dan McDowell designed the beautiful Changemaker logo. During the pandemic he thought deeply about his career (Dan is a head chef) and his purpose. He has always loved animals and is increasingly concerned for their welfare, especially as the climate crisis worsens. During research into animal welfare he was amazed to discover the extent to which human intervention is adversely affecting wildlife, such as howler monkeys being killed by power lines and infant turtles influenced by manmade light. Inspired by the ingenuity and compassion of humans to solve these problems, he is now pursuing a career in conservation.
Kirsty has been designing websites for over 20 years, hard to believe the internet has even been around that long. Her business is called SOSWEB which she runs alone, offering a very personal, friendly service. She has a great eye for design and is a kind and patient teacher. Kirsty has two teenage children and spends most of her spare time riding her horses.
www.sosweb.co.uk
John changed his life when he gave up a highly-successful career as a Treasurer to international banks and became a dealer in 20th century design. He set up The Design Gallery with his wife, Chrissie, in Kent in 2002 and has specialised in Arts & Crafts Movement and Art Deco for 20 years. John thinks “big picture” and his strategic planning will play an important part in the social impacts that Changemaker plans to achieve. www.thedesigngallery.com
