Fly Over the Grass aims to shed light on creative routes into a career in social impact. In each episode, Miranda talks to an inspiring individual working to solve social inequality to find out about the change they want to see in the world, what they do, and how they got there.
Fly Over the Grass #007 Marika van Santvoort on improving cocoa supply chains as a social entrepreneur
Marika van Santvoort is a consultant and social entrepreneur from the Netherlands specialising in cocoa, the raw ingredient of chocolate. Whilst working in conflict resolution in post conflict communities, Marika found herself working with cocoa farmers in Cameroon (West Africa). She noticed how the complexity and opaqueness of cocoa supply chains leaves cocoa farmers unfairly treated. This experience began her career and life’s mission to shorten and improve supply chains between cocoa...
20 Dec 2020
Fly Over the Grass #006 Anneke van Woerden on the importance of combining fun, learning and purpose in your job
Anneke Van Woerden is a creative facilitator living and working in Amsterdam. After exploring a number of career routes from Musicology and academia she found fell into the world of creative facilitation. From this she started a business called Unfold which supports people and organisations to collaborate more effectively and designed a programme that supports newcomers in the Netherlands into creative jobs. Now Anneke continues to disrupt the world of education and work at the University of ...
20 Dec 2020
Fly Over the Grass #005 Lisa Mandemaker on the role of design in developing the ethics of new technologies
Lisa Mandemaker is a social designer from the Netherlands. After completing a BA in Product Design and an MA at Londons Royal College of Art in Design Products, she has she continued her career in Amsterdam doing design projects centered around the effects, both intended and unintended, of emerging technology. She is interested in design as a tool for debate and makes impactful, topical work that starts conversations on the political, ethical and scientific aspects of emerging technology. Her...
31 Aug 2019
Fly Over the Grass #004: David Smith and Sarah Holliday on fighting air pollution & environmental injustice
Miranda chats to two individuals who, through contrasting career paths, have both turned their attention to fighting environmental injustice in their local area. David Smith, a former marketing executive is a campaigner and air pollution activist raising awareness of the devastating affects of air pollution on children’s health. Sarah Holliday started her career developing solar technology, now she creates programmes that enable citizens to learn and take part in scientific research about env...
7 Jun 2019
Fly Over the Grass #003: Gul Rasool & Karisma Desai on shifting approaches to policy making
Karisma Desai and Gul Rasool chat to Miranda about their journeys into working for the UK Government; Karisma in the Ministry of Justice and Gul as a user researcher in the Home Office. They discuss finding their feet in such a big organisation, what they want to achieve in their work, and how they are contributing to changing the way that government designs and delivers outcomes for citizens.
27 May 2019
Fly Over the Grass #002: Yasmin Ibison, founder of the Critics Club
Yasmin is social entrepreneur at the beginning of her journey running The Critics Club, a cultural programme empowering young people to engage with theatre and art. In this episode, Miranda chats to Yasmin about the inaccessibility of the arts and why she set up the Critics Club. Follow the critics club on twitter @critics_club, and check out their website here - www.thecriticsclub.co.uk
26 May 2019
Fly over the Grass #000: Miranda introduces the podcast
A couple of minutes with our podcast host, Miranda on why she started the show and what its all about
11 May 2019
Fly Over the Grass #001: Anna Braybrooke, youth worker at The Winch
This week Miranda talks to Anna Braybrooke about her 10 year career running creative youth projects in North London. They talk about what resilience means for Anna and the sector she works in, where the education system is failing the young people she works with, as well as the importance of self care. Follow Anna on twitter @AnnaBellaBray Follow Winch on twitter @the_winch or check out their website www.thewinch.org Follow Year Here on twitter @yearhere or check out their website www.yearh...
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