Isabel is a communicator, educator and large-scale project organiser. Her experience in the London art world (where her work included writing as an art critic for The Times and curating exhibitions at the Royal Academy) led her to set up and direct the Festival of Muslim Cultures that took place across Britain throughout 2006. Over 120 events in almost every conceivable art form brought audiences into contact with the Muslim world in order to build bridges of understanding between cultures. Isabel moved to South Devon in 2010 and created and led learning programmes for children and young adults with Transition Network. Since 2012 she has trained in Regenerative Development and Design with Regenesis.

As a creative director, Jane has led and inspired inter-disciplinary teams for global design and architecture firms in London, Boston and San Francisco, creating comprehensive communication solutions for retail and corporate clients. She specializes in strategic overview, visioning, concept creation, design and branding, maintaining her own design practice in support of clients such as California Trout. As BLC co-founder, Jane brings design into the heart of BLC’s practices as a way to try things out, get stuff done, give form to ideas, spark conversation and inspire action. In combination with systems thinking and regenerative approaches there are no limits to its potential for good.

Dr Nick Paling specialises in the analysis, visualisation and communication of strategic information to engage stakeholders and ensure that environmental actions are co-designed, targeted and co-created in locations that give the greatest magnitude and diversity of social, cultural, economic and environmental outcomes. For ~15 years, Nick has been working as a ‘knowledge-broker’ and co-creation-facilitator on local collaborative governance, participatory environmental planning, community-based climate resilience/adaptation and Nature Based Solutions projects. Since 2017, Nick has been working as a European Commission (Horizon 2020 and Joint Research Centre) Technical Expert.

As someone born and bred in South Devon, Tracy has always appreciated the natural world and the incredible environment in which we live. After being a part of the conservation and charitable sectors, working for the Wildlife Trusts movement for 13 years, Tracy set up her own business development consultancy and then spent 4 years within the adoption sector.  In order to better support the emerging Climate Change emergency, Tracy then took a position as Consultant Operations Manager for Yealm Community Energy. After delivering 3 local solar farms into community ownership and creating the first carbon neutral electric ferry on the River Yealm, Tracy now joins BLC as Consultant Operations Manager.  Tracy specialises in grant funding bids, education, and project management.

Emilio Mula is a filmmaker, visual artist and animator. For over 20 years Emilio has communicated stories about the environment through social engagement and art projects using films, animations and visual installations. Emilio is currently experimenting with sensors in nature to create real time, interactive experiences, and working with climate data to convert it into more visceral audiovisual information in order to develop new ways of understanding the changes that are happening in and around us.

Bridie joined BLC as Climate Adaptation Project Manager, bringing her experience working within the fields of community, sustainability, climate, conservation and science communication. She has delivered numerous community-focused environmental projects and communications within the South Devon bioregion; for Sustainable South Hams, as Communities co-lead for the Devon Local Nature Recovery Strategy and Wild About Devon, and as Communications Officer for Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Bridie’s work centres on connecting with people through education and outreach, having been a reporter, writer and podcast contributor, magazine sub editor and contributor and researcher. She is interested in the intersection of arts and ecology, particularly through performance, having worked in educational theatre with young people and now being part of local community theatre and music groups. She holds an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, a BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology and a diploma in Community Arts Management.

Kate is an interdisciplinary researcher, facilitator and writer working at the intersection of new economics, social innovation and inner development. She holds an MA in Regenerative Economics and has a decade’s experience consulting on strategy, innovation and communication and facilitating design and co-creation processes for pioneering organisations engaged in life-affirming work. She recently spent five months in Latin America conducting research on regenerative business models to prevent deforestation. Outside of work, she loves camping, climbing and the outdoors. Kate is working with BLC to support its evolution and the development of its new bioregioning action-learning initiative.

Samson is a food grower, land-tender, writer, researcher and earth-based facilitator/educator, currently living and tending land in South Devon. His work explores the intersections of land, ecology, justice, culture & spirituality. Samson holds an MA in Regenerative Economics from Schumacher College, has worked as a collaborative associate at gentle/radical, and is co-founder of Miknaf Ha’aretz, a CIC working towards land justice and building earth-based, radical-diasporist jewish community in the UK. Samson also loves cooking, baking bread, wild swimming and reading/writing poetry. Samson is currently working with the BLC on a project exploring South Devon’s food, farming & land-based culture.

Glenn works across the boundaries of science/policy/practice with 30 years of experience building bioregional and ecosystem stewardship. Founder of SustainaMetrix in Portland, Maine, projects have taken him across the country and around the world working with government agencies, NGOs and universities. As the first Director of Conservation for the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, Glenn was awarded the title of “Environmental Hero” by U.S. Vice President Al Gore in 2001. Glenn is a constant source of inspiration to BLC, and is particularly gifted at activating people’s potential for change.

“To do things differently, we need to see things differently.” John is a writer, curator, event producer–and visiting professor at Tongji University–with a focus on social, ecological and relational design and urban-rural reconnection. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years and was commissioner of the 2019 China exhibition Urban-Rural. John has curated biennials and place-based xskool workshops in 20 countries. He is and his most recent book, How To Thrive In the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today, was published in China in 2019.

“The world is complex. We need to stop dumbing it down. The current state of our world requires us to work hard to fully understand the complexity of living systems and to design elegant approaches that honor and appreciate that complexity.” Pamela works with project development teams and community groups to build critical systems thinking skills and holistic planning processes and designs that can address complex systems problems and opportunities. She also works as a faculty member for The Regenerative Practitioner series.

Angie’s entrepreneurial background in the cultural, creative and publishing industries has led her to management roles with small, creative and impactful organisations. Angie thrives working in small can-do teams where the primary focus is growing environmental, social and economic participation in communities. As a Citizen Journalist and Producer on the side, Angie researches civic value, social justice, community led participation and is passionate about keeping the work relevant to stakeholders and audiences. Her work is guided by the belief that living more cooperatively is not only possible but, rather, how people and planet can survive and thrive.