PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge

Joycelyn is environmental justice activist and academic. She is a second-year PhD student at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Computer Science in the AI for Environmental Risk Program (AI4ER), funded by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative and is an affiliated researcher on the ERC-funded Smart Forests Project. Her research centres on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana. She is also the founder of ClimateInColour, an online education platform and community for the climate curious. The platform is a launchpad for critical conversations but also a space of hope a space to make climate conversations more accessible and diverse and transform how people learn about, communicate and act on climate issues.