Founder, Director
Alice is an Environmental Science PhD Researcher at UCL and the London NERC DTP with a lifelong passion for protecting the natural world. She has been working in this sector for over six years, and as a black woman in an industry so lacking in diversity, she has experienced the issues this poses to the field. “The biodiversity crisis is an issue that affects all of us. Thus, we limit the impact of conservation work when it is only entrusted to those who can afford to access the conservation industry by acquiring volunteer jobs or paying thousands of pounds to complete overseas fieldwork. Therefore, I fundamentally believe that we can widen participation and access to this field by adequately funding conservation internships, so I started 'The Conservation Equity Project' to do just that.”
-Alice Armstrong
Director
Tyler Williams-Green
Tyler is a Director at the Conservation Equity Project and the CEO of the Outrunners Charity. Tyler Williams-Green founded the Outrunners as a Hackney-based running club in 2015 after falling in love with running whilst becoming a qualified coach. With over 17 years of experience in the charity sector and as a youth practitioner Tyler knew he wanted the club to have a social purpose.
Bringing a sense of community to connect local people with the area they live in was another essential feature of the Outrunners. After recoginising the unequal access to opportunities within Hackney Tyler wanted to pivet the direction of the club to working with young people in Hackney. The club began by using it’s network of running club members to create opportunities for and support young people locally.
Director
Patrick Campbell
Patrick is also a Director at the Conservation Equity Project and is a Senior Curator at the Natural History Museum, London, where he has been since 1986, as one of the museum’s first black curators, managing the reptile collection in all aspects of its care, preservation, and access. Having amassed many hours of experience in the field surveying and collecting specimens and as an advanced diver and marine biologist, Patrick has contributed to and facilitated a wide range of research, culminating in the publication of almost 100 scientific, peer-reviewed papers. Patrick also started and led the museum’s multicultural forum, was a founding member of Museum Detox, now in its 10th year, and was heavily involved in the Young Graduates for Museums and Galleries organisation mentoring young people from BAME backgrounds.