How to Be a Changemaker

Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Hannah is the author of the book Fledgling and Nature Needs You. She’s also an award-winning nature campaigner named on the Ends Report Green Policymaking 2024 Power List. Hannah infamously let a wild bird nest in her hair for 84 days. She then walked through central London, unclothed and painted in feathers, to launch her national campaign to save swifts from extinction.

Ellen Bradley

Ellen is Co-Director of UK Youth for Nature, a network of 16–35 year olds calling on the government to act on the nature crisis. Alongside this role, she’s a freelance writer, and is currently writing her first book about British wildlife. Previously General Manager of Curlew Action, she’s Vice Chair of Trustees for Young Sea Changers Scotland. She also works as a part-time artist specialising in graphite drawings of pets and wildlife. 

Georgia Darby

Georgia joined the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2019. She worked in the team leading on the UK’s nature campaign for UNFCCC COP26. This was followed by a few more years of working on the UN climate and biodiversity conferences and pulling together an International Nature Strategy for government. She now works on England’s Environment Strategy, leading on how government works with business to help us deliver our ambitious environmental goals.

Robert Fish

Robert is a social scientist and human geographer by training, with research interests in natural resource management. He specialises in agricultural and rural systems. His work is distinguished by its participatory and collaborative nature, as well as by direct intervention in the policy process. In recent years, Robert has played a prominent role in the elaboration of interdisciplinary approaches to the valuation of nature within environmental policy and decision-making. He’s a founding lead editor of the British Ecological Society Journal People and Nature. His recent textbook, Valuing Nature, won the Taylor & Francis Outstanding STEM Book in 2021.

Charlie Gold

Charlie is a Policy Officer in the Policy Unit of London’s Natural History Museum. In this role, he draws on the Museum’s scientific expertise and public reach to increase engagement with people shaping policy about the natural world. Previously, he worked at a political communications agency on environmental and children’s rights campaigns and volunteered in the campaigns team of Save the Children UK. He also interned at the British Council in Australia. He has a Masters in Global Governance and Ethics and an undergraduate degree in English Literature.

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