Jenni Ramos

This project emerged in response to my interest in regenerative systems change, law, rights of nature and helping others to explore their relationships to place and people. This began with my legal career (law is a form of encoding relationships) and has emerged through my study of nature-led leadership. In my recent legal work I looked at how corporate legal frameworks can serve ecological health rather than extraction. This led to questioning how the business and finance world can adopt new regenerative frameworks. I felt drawn to bring this work to the East of England – a region where the threads of reciprocal relationship with land and nature were so thoroughly severed by Roman colonisation and its aftermath that they are barely visible, and where recovery of that connection feels both urgent and largely unrecognised. I aspire to a kinship worldview and approach this work as a facilitator – holding questions rather than imposing solutions, nurturing collective wisdom rather than claiming authority.

I have lived much of my life in the East of England. I was born in Cambridge, grew up in the Fens and now live in the ‘Fen Edge’, just outside Cambridge. I have enjoyed regular visits to Norfolk and Suffolk throughout my life — family stays as a child and camping trips more recently. Before me came ancestors on both sides from Norfolk, Suffolk, Northamptonshire and Rutland.

I am neurodivergent, care for three teenage sons, one with complex disabilities and live with long-Covid. I am constantly forgetting and remembering to listen to my body and nature, to slow down and be mindful – an imperfect, ongoing practice.

SJ Beard

I am a philosopher and futures researcher based in Cambridge, working on human centred responses to the global transformations being driven by AI, climate change, social disruption, and environmental breakdown. My aim is to build existential hope in the possibility of safe, joyous, and inclusive futures for human beings on planet earth.

I have spent most of my career moving between academia and policy, spending time in elite institutions that seek to develop overaching visions for others to follow. A constant desire of mine has been to take the skills and resources of these places and use them for more engaged, consensual, and inclusive purposes.

I moved to Cambridgeshire in 2018 and have been seeking to build stronger relationships with conscious communities and the land ever since. I have recently been working to revive the energies of the celtic god Abandinus, who I understand to have been an ancient spirit of the Great Ouse and its drainage basin.

You can find out more about me and my work on my web-site www.sjbeard.com.