JOYCELYN LONGDON
CLIMATE EDUCATOR | SPEAKER
ABOUT JOYCELYN LONGDON AKA CLIMATE IN COLOUR (she/her)
Joycelyn is an award-winning environmental justice technologist, communicator and PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research centres on the design of justice-led conservation technologies for monitoring biodiversity with local forest communities in Ghana, specialising in biodiversity monitoring through bioacoustics – essentially Shazam for nature.
Joycelyn has collaborated with a wide range of organisations including Meta, Samsung, The Design Museum, and Greenpeace. Joycelyn has been invited to speak on topics of climate justice, climate colonialism, activism, creativity and systems change by The United Nations Geneva Dialogues, Channel 4, Cheltenham Science Festival, Oxford University, The National Lottery, The Design Council and The Wellcome Collection and is a TEDx Alumni.
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. Her debut book, Natural Connection: What Indigenous Wisdom and Marginalised People Teach us about Environmental Action was published in 2025.