Award-winning Environmental Justice Technologist, Author, Speaker, Designer and Educator.

(+ occasional DJ)

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Joycelyn Longdon is a leading scholar, author, designer and educator working at the intersection of environmental justice and nature technology.

Joycelyn was 2022’s winner of the Emerging Designer London Design Medal, and was featured in British Vogue’s December 2023 ‘Forces for Change’ Issue. Most recently, she has been listed as one of Pique Action and Harvard Chan C-CHANGE's 2024 Climate Creators to Watch and as one of Country and Town House’s Future Icons Power People 2024.

Technology Design

Joycelyn is a PhD Candidate at Cambridge University.

Her research centres on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana (her place of heritage), specialising in biodiversity monitoring through machine-learning powered bioacoustics – essentially Shazam for nature.

Uncovering the inherent connection between ecology, sociology and technology, her research has disrupted a stagnant and often colonial and extractive field of study and made clear the need for a justice-centred approach to the application of technology in conservation.

Her work is deeply interdisciplinary, grounded in methods and theory from participatory and interaction design, data science and machine learning, data and design justice and qualitative social studies.

Storytelling and Speaking

Through her accessible, creative, engaging and deeply researched storytelling style, Joycelyn connects a wide-ranging audience to the intersections of environmental justice, climate action, and technology development.

She has driven positive social and environmental with leading organisations, including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Blue Marine Foundation, Samsung, and Nokia and has resulted in consistent appearances on and in mainstream media outlets, including Channel 4, SkyNews, BBC, ITV, The Economist, Meta, VICE and Vogue.

Her expertise in storytelling, design and justice has been employed for consulting and advisory for major institutions The UN, The National Lottery, Atlassian, The Design Council, The Wellcome Collection, The Design Museum, and Oxford University.

Joycelyn is a proud Trustee of Action for Conservation and advisor for Generation Earth Minutes.

ClimateInColour (2020-2024)

Joycelyn’s journey in public communication and education began in 2020 when she created the handle @climateincolour and began posting accessible and diverse resources on climate justice. Between 2020 and early 2024, her work took many forms. From bold and visually arresting infographics, online and in-person courses, a monthly reading group, a bi-weekly newsletter, an online community, events, workshops, advisory and consulting.

While public communication and education remain at the forefront of Joycelyn’s work, she is currently focusing on thought leadership at the intersection of environmental justice and nature technology through her ongoing communications, consulting and applied and creative research.

Resources created between 2020 and 2024 can be found in The Archive (TBC). Updated versions of the online courses will be available to purchase at the end of 2025.

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Natural Connection

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Natural Connection

A truly original journey to the root of our collective problems that offers new hope for how to solve them. Reading it is a balm. -- Afua Hirsch

Urgent, profound and compassionate... Natural Connection brings us to imagine our relations with nature otherwise. Wisely, patiently, it opens and holds space in which radically rooted change might flourish. -- Robert Macfarlane

Fascinating and thought-provoking. Natural Connection challenge us to look at climate change anew, and come back to the fight reenergised -- Cal Flyn

Joycelyn Longdon is an urgent and desperately needed new voice. This is a wonderful book. -- Katherine May

Media, Press & Thought Leadership

  • Future Icons Power People 2025 - Country & Townhouse

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  • Meet The Judges: In Conversation with Joycelyn Longdon - The Wainwright Prize

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  • Artificial intelligence, community and climate justice with Joycelyn Longdon - Economist Impact

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  • 9 Environmentalists From Around The World Share Their Hopes This Earth Day - Vogue

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  • The Future of Conservation Lies in Justice-led Technology

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  • These are the women of colour activists to turn to for a fresh perspective on the climate crisis - Stylist

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  • Environmental data justice -- The Lancet Planetary Health

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  • Climate Researchers on the Most Hopeful Things They’ve Seen Yet - VICE

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  • Inside The UK’s First Black Ecofeminist Summit - Vogue

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General Enquiries

hello@climateincolour.com

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Bookings and Speaking Enquiries

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Literary Agent

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Natural Connection Press Enquiries

MQuibell-Smith@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk