Annual Report 2023: Unearthodox Learning Festival

Feedback from participants described the event as inspiring and expressed a strong interest in engaging in future Unearthodox events. This first Learning Festival showed us that it is an effective approach to share learnings and insights beyond key project actors; our audiences are keen for even more engagement; and this is a tool we can use again.

Quotes from participants:

“What a wonderful event, very rich conversations, amazingly smooth and highly professional.”

“It’s very helpful for me to know that there are so many out there with similar concerns, focus and mission.”

“...most of the topics were quite new to me... very simply, it exceeded my expectations because I learned things I didn’t know.”

1. Challenging the
conservation status-quo

Mara Angelidou | Kyklos

Lauren Evans | Human Nature

Anna Haw | Herding 4 Health

Samirah Siddiqui & Tasnim Elboute |
Project In/Visibility

2. Implementing diversity, equity and inclusivity

Jasmine Isa Qureshi | Founder of Soil To Sky, Researcher at The Mindfulness Initiative and member of the Advisory
Committee for RSPB England

Carolina Soto V | Leader of the Participatory Science and Traditional Knowledge research group, Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt

Fiona Wanjiku Moejes | Chief Executive Officer at The Mawazo Institute and Women for the Environment (WE) Africa Fellow

3. Leveraging new digital technologies for conservation impact

Jorn Dallinga | Programme Manager, WWF Netherlands

Jeremy Epstein | Head of Growth, Open Forest Protocol

Fiona Korwin-Pawlowski | Chief Strategy Officer, Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative)

4. Practical digital strategies for conservationists

Jorn Dallinga | Programme Manager, WWF Netherlands

Alice Kershaw | Head of Digital Transformation, The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts

Uta Muktamarianti | Research and Event Support (Consultant), Unearthodox

Sasha Sebright | Project Manager (Consultant), Unearthodox

Gal Zanir | Digital Innovation (Consultant), Unearthodox, Land Conservation Manager for TiME

5. Shaping the future of giving

Nonette Royo | Executive Director, The Tenure Facility

Shelley Shreffler | Programme Officer Environment at Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies

Jessica Sweidan | Co-founder, Synchronicity Earth