NICK BROOKS

Nick is Garama’s Director and founder. Nick leads on the design and delivery of our training courses, drawing on his extensive experience working with and delivering training for governments, international organisations, research bodies, civil society, and implementers of development and climate programmes. Nick has a background in climate science and over 25 years of experience working on climate change adaptation, resilience and related topics. Nick has been a regular contributor the University of East Anglia’s Climate Change and Development short course, and to training events run by other organisations including UNDP and IIED. He has organised or participated in training events for DFID/FCDO, the African Development Bank, the governments of Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, Norway and Switzerland, and a variety of other clients in the public and private sector. https://nickbrooks.wordpress.com/

BRIDGET MCKENZIE

Bridget is a researcher, trainer and artist working to engage people with the Earth crisis. Her career includes being Tate’s Education manager and the British Library’s Head of Learning. In 2006 she founded Flow Associates, a research consultancy in cultural learning. In the past eight years, she has focused entirely on culture and environment, and has developed resources, training, collectives and campaigns that push at the radical edges of this field. This includes founding Climate Museum UK, a creative collective helping people make sense of environmental issues. She also co-founded Culture Declares, an international movement of cultural workers declaring a climate and ecological emergency. She experiments with creative activism in her local city of Norwich, in Norfolk. https://bridgetmckenzie.uk/

JOANNE CLARKE

Jo is an archaeologist and heritage specialist specialising in inter-disciplinary research, impact and policy at the intersection of archaeology, heritage and climate change past and present. Jo publishes individually and collaboratively on climate change losses and damages, impacts and adaptation responses for heritage and for society, past and present. She has produced 13 research outputs and has been part of author teams for six policy reports on climate change and heritage since 2022, including as contributing author to the Africa chapter of the IPCC’s 6^th and 7th Assessment Reports. Jo was also a lead author on the States and Trends chapter of the United Nations Environment Programme’s, Global Environment Outlook 7. She is co-lead on a British Academy ODA challenge grant on heritage and climate change literacy and on a CLARE-funded project exploring the role of heritage for catalysing climate change resilience amongst coastal communities in Bénin. Jo is playing a key role in developing and delivering Garama’s training on climate change and heritage.