Meet the DEAL Community

Oxford

I am tired of doing business as usual when we have known for decades that it is wrong… I want to be part of the action and do my bit.   

London

Scotland

I am a socially-engaged artist, creative producer, speaker and workshop facilitator who's work is focused on Creative Placemaking - an approach to using creative action to catalyse community-led change and imagine new futures for the places we live.  I work at regional, national and international levels to build collaborative working relationships and develop frameworks that support creative grassroots approaches to have long-term impact for communities. I have been working as part of the core team at The Stove Network in Dumfries, southwest Scotland, since 2015 and am now Director of the What We Do Now creative placemaking network for Dumfries and Galloway. The Stove is an arts and community organisation. We are a successful social enterprise, the first artist-led development trust in the UK and SURF award winner for Creative Regeneration in 2016. We use arts practice to facilitate community-led development, projects and decision-making grown from a foundation in community engagement.  Originally focused on High Street regeneration in Dumfries The Stove is now working regionally across places in Dumfries and Galloway through the What We Do Now creative placemaking network. What We Do Now supports the use of arts practice and creativity to instigate public action and grow community-led initiatives as a catalyst for development and influence local, regional and national policies.

Christchurch, New Zealand

Born and bred in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Samuel is an agribusiness professional, a public sector consultant and an agri-food systems researcher.  As an agribusiness professional, was engaged in multiple research and business projects at levels of the agri-food sector in Ethiopia.  The most impactful among these include AgricaJice Tibila, a passionfruit juice export company. He was responsible for leading projects developing the nucleus as well as the outgrower farms supplying the fruit. As a consultant, he contributed to multiple impactful social and public sector projects across Africa. Working in numerous production and distribution companies in Christchurch, he acquainted himself with New Zealand's food and beverage sector. He is currently completing his PhD in agribusiness, focused on improving the performances of Agricultural value chains using the system dynamics methodology. His demonstrated ability to thrive on multiple pioneering challenges avails his analytical, modelling, consulting and managerial skills to challenges ahead. Regarded as a value-driven professional, he is a leader with deep, dynamic, and systems thinking. He is in line with DEAL's advocacy for reforming economics and orienting it towards systems thinking. I envision learning from and collaborating with the LEAD community.     

Vashon (near Seattle), Washington

I am a data engineer, analyst, and project manager passionate about working as part of a compassionate team to create a regenerative, equitable future for all. I care deeply about being part of a team that values diversity in all forms, empowers everyone to be a leader, holds compassionate spaces that allow everyone to do their best work, and works to improve social and environmental well being. I have an expertise in using data to support informed decision making, from fisheries management to financial technology. Using tools including SQL, Python, R, and AWS, I develop and manage data pipelines, analyze data to find key results, and build visual data dashboards that enable others to make decisions on an ongoing basis.  

Lisbon, Portugal

I'm 29 years old, korean-american originally from seoul, south korea & atlanta, georgia, usa. I am passionate about workers rights, democratic decision making and governance (with a focus on the tech sector), and am currently pursuing a master's of science in Transition, Innovation, Sustainability Environments.

Camden, north London

I am a director of ThinkandDo, an environmental and social equality organisation based in Camden.  We devise and run projects in collaboration with Camden council and a range of businesses and charities.  We aim to promote a circular economy in our community which includes schools, tenants associations, businesses, and social enterprises. We are registered as a community interest company.

Cardiff, Wales, UK

Reader in Human Geography; Director of the MSc in Environment and Development, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University

Lebanon

Zoetermeer

I'm part of the international Plant Based Treaty campaign designed to put food systems at the forefront of combating the climate crisis. 

Southampton, UK

I am passionate about the potential of technology to help people to live good lives whilst regenerating nature. A versatile software engineer and data scientist with a strong academic background, I hold a PhD in environmental science and engineering, specialising in carbon accounting and life cycle assessment, bringing a wealth of domain expertise to my projects. Throughout my career, I have driven the development of innovative solutions to measure, model and optimise complex socio-environmental systems. As a data scientist, software engineer, and leader, I have worked on projects to optimise national infrastructure, model cities, simulate organic carbon dynamics in agricultural and urban settings, and calculate supply chain carbon footprints using IoT. I have also been fortunate enough to work with some fantastic teams developing innovative probabilistic modelling frameworks, simulation platforms, and SaaS products. Collaboration is central to my approach and my background enables me to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams combining technical excellence and academic rigour with a strong commitment to sustainability principles. My aim is to inspire confidence and passion for delivering projects with the potential to make a measurable and lasting impact.

London

I run a community and stakeholder consultancy called BUILD Networks for Good. I help organisations build global networks for systems change. I would like embed the work of DEAL into my consultancy and ensure that my organisation is aligned with my mission of creating real social and political change through relationship building.  Feel free to drop me a message if you would like to talk about community building and DE, always love connecting and talking about this!

Southampton

Head of Sustainability for conservation charity Marwell Wildlife. Passionate about sustainability and supporting business community to adopt sustainable and circular business models. Organise regular events in Southampton and Hampshire and online under the banners of Sustainable Business Network, IEMA, People Planet Pint and Green Drinks for local business to meet up, share experience and learn from each other. #sustainablebusiness   

Forest Gate, London

I have been working in schools for over 15 years as a teacher and whole school leader of curriculum development. I am interested in expansive curriculum design, especially concept-based learning that enables young people to understand complexity. Recently, I have worked as a project manager delivering transformative experiences disadvantaged for young people; a learning designer delivering a hybrid curriculum  based on the concepts of change-systems-sustainability and circularity and the skills of collaboration-communication-creativity-criticality; as a curriculum consultant supporting schools to be imaginative in the design of both whole school Curriculum and smaller scale curriculum.  My expertise in modern curriculum design that encourages deeper and liberated learning through; collaborative group learning, collaborative problem solving; project based learning; design thinking; academic rigour; mastery learning; flipped learning and use of technology to enhance learning; community and authentic challenges; memory and long term retention of knowledge & skills; authentic assessment; pragmatic rehearsal of exam skills; metacognition; wider attributes and character; innovation in learning spaces.

Seattle, Washington USA

I am a semi-retired energy economist having worked for over 40 years in the practical implementation of projects and policy for energy efficiency and renewable energy including wind, solar (PV and thermal), biofuels, etc. from residential to utility scale.  Was engaged working with Danish RE experts for over 30 years, developed and installed residential and commercial wind and solar projects. I led the development of the first utility scale green pricing wind project in 1996, in Traverse City, Michigan.  In 2020 I published a short concept plan paper "Emerald City 100% Renewable Energy Plan" (using Doughnut Economics concepts) and recently "Accelerating 100% Renewable Energy Plans" with the American Solar Energy Society for this 2023 summer conference, "Transforming the Energy Landscape for All."   I recently moved to Seattle, Washington, from Michigan, where I continue to write and be active in fighting to abate the climate crisis.

Germany, Bavaria

I am the founder of Bisonaide gGmbH, a non-profit organization dedicated to education for the disadvantaged, development cooperation, and fostering inclusion. Our primary focus is currently centered around the establishment of an IT-focused academy called "whakaako Academy". With a strong commitment to creating positive change, we aim to provide opportunities for marginalized individuals to access education and skills that will empower them in an increasingly digital world. Through collaborative partnerships and innovative initiatives, we strive to make a lasting impact on underserved communities.    

Brighton

Building an activist business school. 

Pensacola, Florida

I am currently working on a local initiative to foster a prosperous economy, thriving society and healthy environment by facilitating conversations, doing experimental projects and learning faster together what works in the greater Pensacola area.

Hove, Sussex

I want to make more of a positive difference and be a messenger for good!  

parma

I am an independent consultant: I lead companies in developing a culture of sustainability that they can translate into a real competitive advantage and then in designing an effective communication strategy. Without any risk of greenwashing. I develop the strategic story design of sustainability to accelerate a positive transformation of production, use (enough talking about consumption!) and socialization strategies, strategies that lead to the regeneration of environmental, economic and social systems. My method is design thinking as a meeting point between research, stakeholder engagement, storytelling and digital. For increasingly "human-centric", empathic and relevant brands. I live in Parma, so nothing is close but not too far either. I love to move and then come back. I connect the dots, facilitate teamwork, train talents. I consider myself a pollinator.

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Hello! I'm a codirector of Outlandish in London. We make websites and tools, and are a worker-owned tech ! 😁 I specialise in product & development, and run lots of product development . I also run Open UX Design: UX-ing in the open on problems that matter. 😊 I want to be part of the DEAL community because we are always looking at ways to improve our business to be more just and equitable. Also I want to highlight the benefits of worker-owned businesses, and to empower people to start their own. 

Washington and Rome

Marian Douglas-Ungaro is a Black American (meaning U.S. slavery descendant ethnicity) woman, born and raised in the U.S., i.e., in the AMERICAS. A multilingual speaker, writer, and researcher, interested in contributions of women, globally, and the Slavery Descendants- the Afrodescendants- of the Americas, to spread and realise doughnut economics and doughnut economies. She is married to retired Italian diplomat, Carlo Ungaro, and carefully divides her time between Washington, DC and Europe. 

Noosa, QLD

Studied planetary boundaries and doughnut economics in South Africa, and looking to apply the conceptual framework locally.