Meet Our Practitioner Network
Jaya Gajparia - Researcher
Jaya is an interdisciplinary environmental social scientist whose work focuses on social justice, environmental inequalities, and supporting efforts to build a fairer, more sustainable world. Drawing on over two decades of experience between Higher Education and the Third Sector, she uses a decolonial feminist ethnographic approach to co‑create knowledge with communities, challenging extractive research practices and centring lived experience, voice, and justice.
Michael Lomotey - Researcher
Michael Lomotey (he/him) is a doctoral researcher currently in the final part of his PhD at the School of Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Southampton. Lomotey is interested in the Black Radical Tradition and especially antiblackness as theoretical, ontological and conceptual frameworks through which to interrogate and seek to uncover truths in climate change discourse. Michael is currently researching the impacts of flooding on Black communities in Hull. He is of Ghanaian and English heritage and was raised on the sink estates of East and West Hull, learning resistance and activism there.
Damie Oladebo - Researcher
Damie Oladebo is a Racial Equity Consultant, with experience in both the public and private sector. She holds a general law degree and a master’s in Health, Law & Society. Damie explores several facets of racial equity, though her prime speciality is in health inequalities, where she has worked with healthcare regulators, professional bodies and universities on the subject.
Simmone Ahiaku - Youth Engagement Consultant
Simmone is a campaigner, facilitator and organiser who has contributed to environmental and social justice work in Bristol, London and across the UK. Simmone has worked on air pollution, divestment and climate justice campaigns. She currently facilitates workshops to explore climate colonialism, and climate resistance from the past and present day.
Mary Ann Clements - Facilitator
Mary Ann Clements is a Writer, Facilitator, Consultant & Coach with over 20 years of experience in 'international development' spaces. She is also a Co-Director of Healing Solidarity, a project in the practice of re-imagining the global development sector. She is committed to helping re-think the way we work towards a solidarity that heals, rather than perpetuates injustice in all of the spaces she inhabits.
Joan Okitoi - Communication Strategist
Joan Okitoi is a freelance communicator and writer dedicated to sharing the stories of women of colour in global development. Joan also leads workshops on promoting equity and dignity in international development communications. She currently works part-time as a communications officer at the Geneva Trade Platform.