Fly Over The Grass
Fly Over the Grass aims to shed light on creative routes into a career in social impact. In each episode, Miranda talks to an inspiring individual working to solve social inequality to find out about the change they want to see in the world, what they do, and how they got there.
Episodes
8 episodes
Fly Over the Grass #007 Marika van Santvoort on improving cocoa supply chains as a social entrepreneur
Marika van Santvoort is a consultant and social entrepreneur from the Netherlands specialising in cocoa, the raw ingredient of chocolate. Whilst working in conflict resolution in post conflict communities, Marika found herself working with coco...
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Episode 7
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37:19
Fly Over the Grass #006 Anneke van Woerden on the importance of combining fun, learning and purpose in your job
Anneke Van Woerden is a creative facilitator living and working in Amsterdam. After exploring a number of career routes from Musicology and academia she found fell into the world of creative facilitation. From this she started a business called...
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Episode 6
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43:14
Fly Over the Grass #005 Lisa Mandemaker on the role of design in developing the ethics of new technologies
Lisa Mandemaker is a social designer from the Netherlands. After completing a BA in Product Design and an MA at Londons Royal College of Art in Design Products, she has she continued her career in Amsterdam doing design projects centered around...
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Episode 5
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40:57
Fly Over the Grass #004: David Smith and Sarah Holliday on fighting air pollution & environmental injustice
Miranda chats to two individuals who, through contrasting career paths, have both turned their attention to fighting environmental injustice in their local area. David Smith, a former marketing executive is a campaigner and air pollution activi...
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Episode 4
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23:54
Fly Over the Grass #003: Gul Rasool & Karisma Desai on shifting approaches to policy making
Karisma Desai and Gul Rasool chat to Miranda about their journeys into working for the UK Government; Karisma in the Ministry of Justice and Gul as a user researcher in the Home Office. They discuss finding their feet in such a big organisation...
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Episode 4
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22:51
Fly Over the Grass #002: Yasmin Ibison, founder of the Critics Club
Yasmin is social entrepreneur at the beginning of her journey running The Critics Club, a cultural programme empowering young people to engage with theatre and art. In this episode, Miranda chats to Yasmin about the inaccessibility of the arts ...
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Episode 3
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31:41
Fly over the Grass #000: Miranda introduces the podcast
A couple of minutes with our podcast host, Miranda on why she started the show and what its all about
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Episode 1
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2:11
Fly Over the Grass #001: Anna Braybrooke, youth worker at The Winch
This week Miranda talks to Anna Braybrooke about her 10 year career running creative youth projects in North London. They talk about what resilience means for Anna and the sector she works in, where the education system is failing the young peo...
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Episode 2
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22:59
