Fly Over The Grass Miranda

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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