Community Campfire: Global Majority Leadership for Nature

Join us for a welcoming and honest afternoon of community‑led storytelling, connection and inspiration. Community Campfires are designed to encourage real, relatable actions for community and nature by sharing first‑hand experiences of connection with nature.

Hear from Global Majority community leaders, with personal reflections on grassroots community action, Nature Rising, grassroots organising, life coaching, and everyday practices. These amazing speakers will explore and share their experience of taking action for nature in the community.

Come and support, and join the conversation about how community leadership is already shaping what nature connection looks and feels like. Share your own experiences.

At its core, this event highlights a simple truth: without community action for nature, we cannot build a thriving future for ourselves or for wildlife. Access to nature is our right and the actions we take, however small or imperfect, matter.

Hosted by Team Wilder at Avon Wildlife Trust, this Campfire is part of a growing movement of people who notice and care for nature in their everyday lives. Taking action for nature should be something we can all love.

2pm Welcome
2.10pm Local speakers (10 minutes each)
2.45pm Q&A
3.15pm Snacks & chat

We will take photographs at the event - please let us know if you do not wish to be photographed.

Speaker bios:
Lynn Ooi
Lynn is a research assistant working in sustainability, and also works at a university library. Her research intersects climate, sociology, and politics - topics that underpin our everyday lives. Lynn seeks to embrace culture and diversity, learning as she goes. Lynn wrote a report about the strength and resilience in Global Majority grassroots activism, and the sustainable, affordable good practices that help environmental movements become more inclusive.

Lynn will be sharing her personal journey in environmentalism, working with Nature Rising and how she partakes in environmentalism now, highlighting changes she has noticed.

More information: LinkedIn and Blog

Nicolle Hanselmann
Nicolle is a purpose-driven engineer and community advocate who brings care, curiosity, and lived experience into her work. Passionate about inclusion, wellbeing, and people-first innovation, she explores how technology and everyday community action can improve access, connection, and quality of life.

Nicolle will reflect on community action, her personal journey and relationships with nature, exploring how nature-based conversations can feel more inclusive and relevant to global majority communities through simple, grassroots practices like reuse, swapping, and collective care.

More information: LinkedIn

Chantal Alemai
Chantal is a final-year Economics student with a strong interest in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) and financial sustainability. She is passionate about exploring how sustainable finance can better serve Global Majority communities and why their leadership and lived experience are essential to building equitable and effective environmental solutions.

Chantal will speak about the importance of centering Global Majority communities in environmentalism, particularly within ESG frameworks and sustainable finance, and why representation and equity are critical to long-term environmental impact.

More information: LinkedIn