Jini Reddy is the author of the critically-acclaimed Wanderland, shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Book of the Year and for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing.

She has contributed to anthologies, including the landmark Woman on Nature, and has written an award-winning guidebook, Wild Times. As a journalist and travel writer she has written widely for national newspapers and magazines, and in 2019 was named a National Geographic Woman of Impact. In her work, she now occupies a cross-genre space where place, spirituality, nature and culture meet.

Jini was born in the UK to parents of Indian descent from South Africa and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She lives in south west London.

“Young people need to see people who look like them doing interesting, rewarding work that reflects our collective need to connect perspectives on landscape and environment, with the arts and social justice. It’s how new narratives that benefit all of us are seeded, so in that respect, it was an honour to be a part of the project.”

Passionate about social inclusion and challenging systemic inequalities, Rhiane is an award winning community organiser and outdoor advocate.

She is the founder of Black Girls Hike UK CIC which provides a safe space for Black women to connect with nature and adventure, whilst challenging the lack of representation and inclusion in the outdoors.

Nadia is an ornithologist, conservationist and a land justice activist.

Working in the second least diverse sector has led Nadia to explore the link between land justice, the UK’s continuing decline of biodiversity and habitat loss and racism. She works with Righttoroam.org, campaigning for the rights of people in England to access rivers, woodland and meadows.

She lives on the Isle of Bute where she spends time swimming, kayaking and making art as a way of healing and connecting to nature.

“The Colour of Transformation for me is a series of learnings and noticings and almost like awakening moments of going, “These things have happened to me that have taken me to this place and I can't go back to that place now because I'm awake.” It’s recognising that it can be really painful to change and let go of a bit of you but that it's way more colourful in so many different ways in terms of the people you meet, the things you do, the stories that you hear, the way that you absorb the world.”

Soraya Abdel-Hadi is an award-winning writer, artist, and advocate for women and diversity in the UK outdoors.

She believes in taking a holistic approach to making the world a better place, and her work focuses on sustainability, nature and adventure travel. Soraya is Lonely Planet Sustainable Storyteller 2021 and founder of the All The Elements CIC – a non-profit network for those working on increasing diversity in the UK outdoors.

Chantelle is Great North Wood Project Officer at London Wildlife Trust, working on a woodland restoration and community engagement project in south London. She is also co-host of CBeebies’ ‘Chantelle and Rory’s Teeny Tiny Creatures’, teaching children about the U.K. 's smallest animals and inspiring them to look after our planet.

She features on various television programmes such as Blue Peter and Springwatch; starred in the 2022 CBeebies’ BBC Prom: Ocean Adventure; writes blogs and articles such as ‘Breaking down Barriers to Nature for Young Black People’; gets talkative on Podcasts like ‘Into the Wild’, and advocates for nature, equality, diversity and inclusion, and the empowerment of Young People.

Miranda Lowe is a Principal Curator and museum scientist at the Natural History Museum, London. With over two decades worth of collections management and curatorial skills she cares for a plethora of historically important specimens from both the Challenger and discovery oceanic expeditions.

In 2018, Miranda co-authored "Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections", described by the Linnean Society's head of collections as "eye-opening". She is a founding member of Museum Detox, an organisation bringing together people of colour who work in the UK heritage sector.

Dr Jade Adams-White set up The Jadeite Project in 2020, in response to the mental health crisis of recent times. Working as a mental health practitioner in a secondary school, Jade has witnessed first hand the devastating impact on mental health as well as the barriers that young people are facing gaining access to mental health service.

Jade has successfully implemented a gardening club pilot in her current school which has demonstrated a positive impact on the young people that attend. It is envisaged that the success of this will be widened to more young people in Liverpool who need support with their mental health and wellbeing.