Warrior Women Podcast

Climate Tech Warrior: Chante Harris

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 supports entrepreneurs and the ecosystems around them. 

In this episode, we ask, can scaling climate tech save the world?

 

More about the Warrior Women Network can be found here: www.warriorwomennetwork.com

This podcast is made in partnership with Zinc VC and produced by Bird Lime Media.

Consumer Goods Warriors: Julia Collins and Kayalin Akens-Irby

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. Julia leads Planet FWD, the leading carbon management platform for consumer companies, that’s making it easier to bring climate-friendly products to market. Empowering the next generation of sustainable brands through its proprietary software, Planet FWD’s platform reduces the cost and complexity of creating sustainable and carbon neutral products. The platform provides food, fashion and beauty brands with the tools to understand, reduce and neutralise their carbon footprint, and get on a path to net zero emissions. The platform is inspired by Planet FWD’s own snack brand, Moonshot, which launched in 2020 as the first climate-friendly snack brand. 

 

Kayalin Akens-Irby is an impact-oriented strategist who has spent her career working with investors and companies to improve business operations and capitalise on new opportunities within an evolving market which increasingly values transparency, sustainability, and business ethics. Kayalin is currently Head of Growth at Planet FWD, the leading carbon management platform for consumer companies to tackle climate change. She also serves as a Board Member for the Upcycled Food Association and a Climate Fellow for Amasia VC.

 

Follow Julia: Instagram - @JuliaECollins | Twitter - @JuliaCollins

Follow Kayalin: Instagram - @kayasoleia | Twitter - @KayalinSoleia

 

More about the Warrior Women Network can be found here: www.warriorwomennetwork.com

 

This podcast is made in partnership with Zinc VC and produced by Bird Lime Media.

 

Radical Architecture Warrior: Prof. Sonja Oliveira

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 and debate on how sustainability is practised in architecture. Her recent work carried out for accelerating design innovation capability and capacity for socially responsible net-zero housing delivery was  selected for the UK House of Lords Science and Technology Select Committee’s report and presented as a keynote at the Westminster Social Forum.

More about the Warrior Women Network can be found here: www.warriorwomennetwork.com

 

This podcast is made in partnership with Zinc VC and produced by Bird Lime Media.

 

Food Justice Warrior: Deirdre ’Dee’ Woods

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 led to her being named BBC Food and Farming Cook of the Year in 2016. Dee also sits on the London Food Board and Food Ethics Council, is a visiting research associate at Coventry University, and is the co-editor of A People’s Food Policy and is a member of Community Food Growers Network (CFGN).

 

More about the Warrior Women Network can be found here: www.warriorwomennetwork.com

This podcast is made in partnership with Zinc VC and produced by Bird Lime Media.

 

 

Fishing Warrior: Antoinette Vermilye

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 as an International Gender champion.

A true Warrior who either seeks coalitions to find action-oriented solutions that will have far reaching impacts downstream or takes action on identified gaps where little or no attention is being paid.

 

You can find out more about the organisations Antoinette discusses on the following links:

https://www.wheres-the-fish.org/

https://flywithoutfins.org/

 

More about the Warrior Women Network can be found here: www.warriorwomennetwork.com

This podcast is made in partnership with Zinc VC and produced by Bird Lime Media.

 

Textiles Warrior: Ashley Gill

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 collective climate strategy, focusing on how fibres are farmed, sourced and extracted.  

Watch this video to learn about the amazing work they are doing as an organisation: https://lnkd.in/eY_X-9Ku

Find out more about the Warrior Women Network at www.warriorwomennetwork.com

 

This podcast is made in partnership with Zinc VC and produced by Bird Lime Media.

Knife Crime Warrior: Yvonne Lawson MBE

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 Women Network at www.warriorwomennetwork.com

Internet Warrior: Dr Charlotte Webb

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.feministinternet.com/

Find out more about the Warrior Women Network at www.warriorwomennetwork.com

 

This podcast is produced by Bird Lime Media.

Politics Warrior: Indra Adnan

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.

Prison Warrior: Paula Harriott

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’ intersectional women doing extraordinary things to fix society and the planet. Hosted by Karla Morales-Lee, founder of The Warrior Women Network.  This podcast is produced by Bird Lime Media.