The world has reportedly seven years to halve global greenhouse gas emissions and Chante Harris is on a mission to help build and scale the climate technologies that will address the impacts of global warming. She is at the helm of building sustainable cities, advancing cross-sector collaboration, and tapping into community to launch better solutions and technologies in her Director of Climate Investment and Partnerships For ClimateTech role at SecondMuse - an impact and innovation company that ...
Aug 10, 2022•49 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Julia Collins, Founder and CEO of Planet FWD and Kayalin Akens-Irby, Head of Growth, Planet FWD talk to Karla about tackling climate change by decarbonising the consumer goods space. Julia Collins is the first black woman to found a “Unicorn” status tech company. She has more than a decade of experience leading food operations and food technology companies. A serial entrepreneur, Julia discovered food was her calling as a young girl in San Francisco where it was the epicentre of her community. J...
Aug 03, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Sonja Oliveira believes that we are architecture. We are entwined with each other, our designed environments, other species, infrastructures, technology, systems and buildings and that climate crisis, resource depletion, social segregation and other societal and environmental challenges - are increasingly threatening conditions of this entwined existence. For this reason, she set up the Radical Architecture Practice for Sustainability (RAPS) in 2018 through a desire to enable a wider discourse a...
Jul 27, 2022•48 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Food Justice Warrior Dee Woods explains the need for a fairer food system, the problem with food banks and why you can’t discuss household food insecurity without discussing human rights, economics and health. Dee describes herself as a “food actionist” and believes that just talking won’t create change. Dee co-founded the Granville Community Kitchen cooperative in Kilburn as a hub for serving her local community: from growing veg in the community garden, to teaching cookery skills – a role that...
Jul 20, 2022•50 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Antoinette Vermilye finds solutions to the planet’s most pressing ocean conservation issues through her work as co-founder of the Gallifrey Foundation and She Changes Climate . Her important work ranges from the impacts of overfishing on the ocean and migrants, empowering citizens to take civil legal action against unsustainable legal and illegal overfishing, awareness campaigns on the impacts of plastics on human and planetary health, social injustice and the environment and for gender parity a...
Jul 13, 2022•53 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Ashley Gill grew up on a cotton farm in Texas - her own story and background has shaped her role at Textile Exchange - an organisation driving positive impact on climate change across the fashion and textile industry right from the start of the supply chain. After spending time in various roles at the organisation, Ashley now works as the company's Chief Strategy Officer and guides a growing community of brands, manufacturers, farmers, organisations and other industry stakeholders in a collectiv...
Jul 06, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Yvonne Lawson’s son Godwin was stabbed in the street when he was just seventeen. Following his death Yvonne began searching gangs and knife crime and was shocked by its scale and impact. She set up the Godwin Lawson Foundation in her son’s memory and tells Karla about the incredible impact it’s had - including changing UK government policy to help keep young people safe. Learn more about the foundation (and volunteer) here: https://godwinlawsonfoundation.org/ Find out more about the Warrior Wome...
Nov 17, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Many of society’s inequalities are encoded in the internet - seen in the online abuse against women, lack of diversity in the tech sector and biased data collection which reinforces privileges. Dr Charlotte Webb is co-founder of feminist internet, a non-profit organisation that aims to disrupt these inequalities. She tells Karla about the change she’s achieved by bringing intersectional feminist values to a male-dominated sector. Learn more about Feminist Internet here: https://www.feministinter...
Nov 02, 2021•38 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Our political system is broken and dysfunctional: that’s the view of Indra Adnan, who’s working to transform it. Her platform The Alternative UK and new book The Politics of Waking Up present a new way for society to function - she tells Karla Morales-Lee why we need to put humanity at its heart. Learn more about Indra’s projects and book here: https://indraadnan.global/ Find out more about the Warrior Women Network at www.warriorwomennetwork.com This podcast is produced by Bird Lime Media....
Oct 20, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 4
How do we better support women caught up in the criminal justice system? A mother of five, Paula Harriott spent four years in jail and is now on a mission to help other women going through similar experiences. She tells Karla Morales-Lee how she’s turned her lived experience into a force for good. Read about the work of the Prison Reform Trust here: www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk Find out more about the Warrior Women Network at www.warriorwomennetwork.com Shining a light on the ‘ordinary’ intersec...
Oct 13, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 3
When Kresse Wesling and her husband learned London’s fire hoses were going into landfill they set up a company to save them. Elvis and Kresse is a social enterprise that rescues waste, transforms it into luxury lifestyle accessories and donates a significant portion of its income to charity. Kresse explained to Karla Morales-Lee how to put purpose before profit. See Elvis and Kresse’s amazing designs here: www.elvisandkresse.com Find out more about the Warrior Women Network at www.warriorwomenne...
Sep 29, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Caroline Casey didn’t know she was blind until she was 17. An award-winning social entrepreneur with over 2 million views of her TED talk, she’s putting disability on the global business agenda. She tells Karla Morales-Lee why we all need to focus on the margins and realise our own worth. Learn more about Caroline’s movement The Valuable 500 here: www.thevaluable500.com Find out more about the Warrior Women Network at www.warriorwomennetwork.com Shining a light on the ‘ordinary’ intersectional w...
Sep 29, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Shining a light on the ‘ordinary’ intersectional women doing extraordinary things to fix society and the planet. Hosted by Karla Morales-Lee, founder of The Warrior Women Network.
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