Founder, Climate Café®; Director, Climate Cafe® CIC; Climate Cafe® Network
Jess has worked on climate communications and legislation, including at WWF Scotland and with the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition Scotland, over 20 years. Since founding Climate Cafe® in 2015, she coordinates the global Climate Café® Network, supporting new and existing Climate Cafe® spaces to get started and connect.
Jess is an Honorary Fellow of The Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Fellow of The RSA, an Ambassador for the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition and in 2023, was featured on BBC World’s 100 Women: 100 inspiring and influential women list, as one of 28 Climate Pioneers.
Whether in community developments, big infrastructure developments or national legislation, Jess is passionate about ensuring that children’s voices are listened to, heard and taken seriously and collaborates to create space to ensure children and young people can actively participate in shaping plans and informing outcomes.
She has been privileged to work with and learn from children and young people in her own community, across the Climate Café® Network, the Children’s Parliament in Scotland and more, for example ensuring children were included Scotland’s Climate Assembly and got the opportunity to lead with ideas and solutions.
Jess would love to offer support to amplify your voices and make new connections to support and realise your ideas as the solutions this world needs.
