Chris has worked on Participatory Video projects around the world since his first project with nomads and farmers in Central Asia back in 1999. He co-founded InsightShare with his brother Nick eighteen years ago.
Chris leads the overall strategy, operations and financial management of the organisation and continues to facilitate projects in the field. Chris studied Anthropology and Archaeology at Oxford University.
Nick is an experienced Participatory Video facilitator, working at home in Oxford and in over 20 countries since 1996. His passion for the methodology grew from experimenting in handing over control of the camera and film project to indigenous youth in Nepal.
Nick co-founded InsightShare with his brother Chris, and has helped lead the organisation through an eventful journey of ongoing learning, and evolution. Today his focus is on honing the organisation’s capacity building skills, working with community animators to support a growing grassroots Participatory Video movement.
Much of his fieldwork has involved repeat visits to indigenous partner communities in Africa, Asia and South and Central America; working together to preserve and promote traditional knowledge, advance the cause of indigenous rights, and support local representatives as delegates at key global gatherings.
Nick has completed accredited training in Non-Violent Communication, Theory U (Presencing Institute), and Permaculture Design.
Soledad specialises in participatory communication with particular skill and experience in deploying participatory video in international development. She has over 10 years experience researching, planning and implementing numerous participatory video projects, with a strong understanding of the application and potential of the tool in a range of contexts.
Soledad has worked in more than 30 projects in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia in a range of issues including environment, indigenous peoples, gender equality and youth & children’s rights. She has experience in capacity building, community development, research and monitoring & evaluation. She graduated with distinction from the University of Reading MSc in Communication for Innovation and Development.
As the Head of Innovation and Development, she oversees key areas of innovation inside InsightShare, including the use of participatory video in M&E, research, ethical communications and humanitarian contexts. She is in charge of managing a large programmatic portfolio and business development.
Tricia works on InsightShare’s fundraising strategy and implementation, with a particular focus on developing the InsightShare Network. She is an experienced fundraiser, having co-developed large-scale international projects using participatory arts and media and Digital Storytelling with marginalised groups in order to effect change. She is also a founder director of Digitales Ltd., a research and digital storytelling company established in 2008, hosted by Goldsmiths, University of London.
Tricia is an experienced Digital Storytelling facilitator and is currently in the final phase of her PhD, which focuses on the use of Digital Storytelling with older people. Tricia has also worked as a grant-maker, for the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, the London Film and Video Development Agency and Film London. She started her career teaching video production in further education and in community video and is also a Participatory Video facilitator, trained by InsightShare.
Aya is a Pan-African feminist activist. She is the founder of Afrika Youth Movement, building one of Africa’s largest pan-African youth movements. She previously worked as Africa and Middle East Programs Director at World Peace Initiative Foundation, at Bureau de Cooperation Tunisie-Denmark of the Danish Foreign Affairs Ministry on bilateral cooperation, and at the Carter Center monitoring 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of CIVICUS, the World Refugee Council and Oxfam Independent Commission on Sexual Misconduct. She has been an Advisor and Consultant on gender and youth for international organizations including the United Nations and the African Union Commission. Aya became a world renowned blogger during 2011 Tunisia’s Revolution.
As Global Ambassador and Campaigner, Aya will be a key voice for InsightShare, promoting our work, growing our social media engagement and supporter base worldwide.
Madeleine has a BA in film and audiovisuals at the University Paul Valery in Montpellier, France where she co directed a student humanitarian association that conducted projects in Montpellier and Haïti. Some of the projects included facilitating the integration of a Romani community and immigrants into the french society. During her course, Madeleine also orientated her short films and documentaries around subjects such as homelessness and mental illness.
Wanting to pursue her passion in humanitarian work, Madeleine followed a course in “Coordinating Humanitarian Projects” at IFAID in Bordeaux, France. To put into practice the skills acquired during her course, Madeleine works in communications and operations as part of her 9 month internship with InsightShare.
Kazu comes from a journalism and anthropology background with nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of environment and development. He is a community media practitioner, photographer and filmmaker with geographical focus on South and Southeast Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Africa.
He has worked with Panos South Asia, IUCN and Commonwealth Foundation, and has made films on issues of peace building, climate change and migration. Kazu has been involved with Participatory Video as a facilitator since 2014.
Sara has worked with InsightShare as a Participatory Video facilitator since 2007, including numerous projects in Africa, Asia, Central America, Europe and the UK. Her work has encompassed issues ranging from financial literacy for young people in post-conflict Kenya, to destitution amongst asylum seekers in the UK.
Sara has an MA in Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Documentary from the Granada Centre at the University of Manchester, and an MA (Oxon) in Archaeology and Anthropology from Oxford University.
Over the past decade Marleen has worked with a wide variety of groups ranging from indigenous communities in sub-Sahara Africa and subsistence farmers in the Himalayas to homeless people and refugees in Europe. She has delivered over 30 participatory video projects in 11 different countries. Her main areas of expertise are peace building, therapeutic processes, farmer-to-farmer sharing, M&E and training of trainers.
During her degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Sustainable Development she specialised in bio-cultural diversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, climate change adaptation and urban development.
Victoria is a producer and director of documentaries and a communications consultant with 3 decades’ experience. She began her Participatory Video career with Communication for Change in New York and has since been committed to giving a voice to others through film and video. In filmmaking workshops, her aim is to help participants clarify their message and turn it into effective audiovisual output.
She has worked in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the US and has an MA in International Communications and Development from City University, London.
Anabela is a community leader in Sonora, northern Mexico. She has engaged with Participatory Video since 2011, principally deploying it within her local Yaqui community as an educational tool to revive traditional ecological knowledge.
Anabela has facilitated various projects since her first work with InsightShare as part of the Conversations With the Earth project, including as a trainer for a capacity building programme for conservation workers in Bolivia.
Emilie has 15 years experience facilitating Participatory Video projects. She has a background in social anthropology and video journalism, a masters in forestry and has worked for national and international development organisations.
Emilie’s film work ranges from researching the impact of perestroika on pastoralism in Kazakhstan to evaluating the impact of performing arts in a school in Northern England. Emilie has worked with InsightShare on numerous projects in Africa and Asia.
Ingrid is a photographer, filmmaker and participatory photography & video facilitator and project manager since 2007. She is the Founding Director of Fotosynthesis, a social enterprise that uses photography as a tool for education and social change. Ingrid worked extensively throughout Latin America, especially Colombia and the Dominican Republic, where her work has focussed on gender participation and citizen initiatives in the peace process and the impact of tourism on local communities.
Ingrid has a degree in Social and Visual Anthropology, is extremely creative and loves challenging people to create platforms for dialogues. She wants to develop projects with indigenous and unheard communities and focus on positive and constructive stories of change.
Sabine is a documentary filmmaker, graphic designer and Participatory Video facilitator based in Edinburgh. She has been working as a freelancer since receiving her MFA in Documentary Directing from Edinburgh College of Art. She has coordinated and facilitated Participatory Video workshops since 2013 and delivered a Participatory Video for M&E strategy in Malawi for a sustainable farming project.
As an Associate with InsightShare, Sabine has facilitated Participatory Video workshops for PACT Uganda – evaluating a peace building intervention; for Yangon Film School in Myanmar training students in PV Facilitation; as well as for the Green Energy Project in Ukraine as part of a community consultation. She has co-facilitated a number of InsightShare’s flagship 6-day Facilitation Trainings in Oxford and loves to inspire others to tell their stories in film to create positive change in their communities.
Jack is a researcher and community development practitioner, who works with civil society organisations on land and natural resource governance issues. He has lived and worked in Myanmar for the past 4 years. Jack has used Participatory Video as part of collaborative research and advocacy projects with indigenous communities who have been displaced or have lost lands as a result of conservation and extractive industry projects.
As an Associate of InsightShare, Jack has been training young Myanmar filmmakers in Participatory Video and mentoring them to carry out their own projects throughout the country.
Jemimah has been involved with Participatory Video since 2009; initially as a participant in the first Conversations With the Earth project with the Maasai community in Kenya, and since then as an Associate Facilitator and Hub Representative.
In addition to facilitating Participatory Video projects, focussing on women and climate change, Jemimah is currently studying for a bachelor’s degree in sociology at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa.
Pooja is an artist, visual storyteller and participatory video facilitator. She has 10 years of experience working in development and was previously with Oxfam where she designed and implemented strategies for global programmes on using participatory media such as photography and video as a tool for advocacy and measuring change.
Pooja now consults with a variety of international NGOs to design and facilitate creative ways for communities to share their stories of change and create new narratives to humanize themes around gender equality and human rights.
Manon specialises in communication for a social change. She began working with Participatory Video in 2013, amalgamating the approach with Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) techniques, with a particular focus on the use of Participatory Video in the field of climate change and food security.
Manon has particular experience working on gender-sensitive projects and methodologies as well as celebrating rural indigenous and local knowledge through participatory tools. She has worked mainly in Latin America. She has a European Master in Intercultural Communication from Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Neville is a lifelong community worker with over 20 years experience across a wide spectrum of focus areas. He has worked extensively across Africa on community development projects, including as a Participatory Video facilitator with InsightShare since 2008.
Neville is a founder member of the hub seeded by InsightShare in Durban, which continues today as an autonomous social enterprise with Participatory Video at its heart.
Thor has 4 years experience facilitating Participatory Video projects in northern Mexico. He’s also facilitated participatory photography workshops. Thor has a background in Biology and is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker. He’s worked with local and international organizations developing projects that deal with nature conservation, culture and communities.
Thor’s video and photography work ranges from socio-environmental issues to HIV prevention. He has been collaborating with InsightShare in north western Mexico since 2011.
Rebecca first worked with Participatory Video in 2011-12, on a research and advocacy project for young people in cocoa-growing communities in Ghana. More recently Rebecca has worked on a Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation process in Moldova, looking at how change happens in women’s economic development as part of global evaluation for UN Women.
Rebecca has a BA in Spanish and French from Cambridge University and a BTEC Diploma in Art and Design, specialising in video and photography.
Anna is a writer/editor and media facilitator with a background in international development, youth and social entrepreneurship. Her experience with InsightShare includes leading a Participatory Video project to capture the experience of clients at a drop-in centre for vulnerable people in London. She has also designed and delivered media trainings in Kenya and Uganda, and since 2016 facilitates youth media workshops for a small London charity.
Anna has completed InsightShare’s training in Participatory Video Facilitation and in Participatory Video and Most Significant Change. She has degrees in Modern Languages and European Studies and is a Fellow of the On Purpose social enterprise programme.
Jacob has been working with InsightShare since 2007. He played a key role supporting youth at InsightShare’s Lambeth hub which included developing animations as well as numerous Participatory Videos.
From 2012-14 he was responsible for the video art department of Graph-cmi in Carcassonne (France), as Director, Editor and Teacher.
Stuart has over 5 years of experience developing, carrying out and managing participatory research, evaluations and projects for social development organizations in both the UK and internationally. His main focus has been on forced displacement, mental health and most recently on livelihoods of rural and forest communities.
The countries he has worked in include: Cambodia, Colombia, Egypt and the UK. He has a deep interest in exploring, fostering and using processes of participation that are transformative for individuals, organizations and society.
Keidy has been involved with Participatory Video since 2009 when she assisted in the facilitation of the first Conversations With the Earth project in the Cordillera region of the Philippines.
Since that time she has undertaken the facilitation of various Participatory Video projects, addressing indigenous peoples struggles and aspirations in various settings, and delivered training programmes for numerous youth groups across the Asia-Pacific region.
Zoe Young is an author, film director and Participatory Video facilitator with 25 years experience of research and education in the fields of environment, development & human rights. She grew up in London, travels widely and received Masters degrees in Science and Technology Policy and Fine Art. Collaborating with diverse communities within the UK and internationally, her work includes co-directing documentaries such as ‘Suits and Savages’, print and broadcast journalism and presenting papers at scholarly conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. Since training with InsightShare to facilitate participatory video for community action research, Zoe has run PV consultancies for the University of East Anglia’s School of International Development, Coventry’s Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience and the United Nations.
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