Jini Reddy is the author of the critically-acclaimed Wanderland, shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Book of the Year and for the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing.

She has contributed to anthologies, including the landmark Woman on Nature, and has written an award-winning guidebook, Wild Times. As a journalist and travel writer she has written widely for national newspapers and magazines, and in 2019 was named a National Geographic Woman of Impact. In her work, she now occupies a cross-genre space where place, spirituality, nature and culture meet.

Jini was born in the UK to parents of Indian descent from South Africa and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She lives in south west London.

Miranda Lowe is a Principal Curator and museum scientist at the Natural History Museum, London. With over two decades worth of collections management and curatorial skills she cares for a plethora of historically important specimens from both the Challenger and discovery oceanic expeditions.

In 2018, Miranda co-authored "Nature Read in Black and White: decolonial approaches to interpreting natural history collections", described by the Linnean Society's head of collections as "eye-opening". She is a founding member of Museum Detox, an organisation bringing together people of colour who work in the UK heritage sector.

Dr Jade Adams-White set up The Jadeite Project in 2020, in response to the mental health crisis of recent times. Working as a mental health practitioner in a secondary school, Jade has witnessed first hand the devastating impact on mental health as well as the barriers that young people are facing gaining access to mental health service.

Jade has successfully implemented a gardening club pilot in her current school which has demonstrated a positive impact on the young people that attend. It is envisaged that the success of this will be widened to more young people in Liverpool who need support with their mental health and wellbeing.

Passionate about social inclusion and challenging systemic inequalities, Rhiane is an award winning community organiser and outdoor advocate.

She is the founder of Black Girls Hike UK CIC which provides a safe space for Black women to connect with nature and adventure, whilst challenging the lack of representation and inclusion in the outdoors.

Chantelle is Great North Wood Project Officer at London Wildlife Trust, working on a woodland restoration and community engagement project in south London. She is also co-host of CBeebies’ ‘Chantelle and Rory’s Teeny Tiny Creatures’, teaching children about the U.K. 's smallest animals and inspiring them to look after our planet.

She features on various television programmes such as Blue Peter and Springwatch; starred in the 2022 CBeebies’ BBC Prom: Ocean Adventure; writes blogs and articles such as ‘Breaking down Barriers to Nature for Young Black People’; gets talkative on Podcasts like ‘Into the Wild’, and advocates for nature, equality, diversity and inclusion, and the empowerment of Young People.

Soraya Abdel-Hadi is an award-winning writer, artist, and advocate for women and diversity in the UK outdoors.

She believes in taking a holistic approach to making the world a better place, and her work focuses on sustainability, nature and adventure travel. Soraya is Lonely Planet Sustainable Storyteller 2021 and founder of the All The Elements CIC – a non-profit network for those working on increasing diversity in the UK outdoors.

Nadia is an ornithologist, conservationist and a land justice activist.

Working in the second least diverse sector has led Nadia to explore the link between land justice, the UK’s continuing decline of biodiversity and habitat loss and racism. She works with Righttoroam.org, campaigning for the rights of people in England to access rivers, woodland and meadows.

She lives on the Isle of Bute where she spends time swimming, kayaking and making art as a way of healing and connecting to nature.

Bryony Ella is a British-Trinidadian visual artist whose practice sits at the intersection of art, science, spirituality and social justice. She works interdisciplinarily to explore different ways of perceiving the natural world, searching for stories that have the potential to transform our understanding of community and belonging as we respond to the environmental crisis.

“By bringing together scientists, cultural historians, activists, conservationists, local community groups, artists, designers and performers The Colour of Transformation ignites the potential for radical hope and innovation through the experience of collaboration. It’s about creating new images and stories that help to expand our horizons and rewild our thinking as we grapple with the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced.”

Orphy Robinson MBE is an award winning multi- Instrumentalist, and one of the few UK musicians to have ever been signed to the legendary USA Jazz label “Blue Note”.

Throughout a 40 year career, Robinson has been on over 100 recordings with internationally acclaimed artists across many genres of music. These include artists as diverse as Nigel Kennedy, Carleen Anderson, Hugh Masekela, Don Cherry, Robert Plant, Thurston Moore, Jazz Warriors, Cleveland Watkiss, to name a few.

Since 1987 Robinson has been nominated & won numerous prestigious awards. These include the 2017 Jazz Fm award for “Live Experience of the Year” & 2020 Artist “Gold Award”. 2017 – 2019. Orphy held the position of Artist in residence at the Gibraltar World music Festival.

In 2022 his Project “Black Top” was nominated for ‘Best Jazz Ensemble’.

“My artistic engagement with The Colour of Transformation was to articulate through the creation of an empathetic sound base consisting of harmonies, melodies, rhythmic stimulus, voices, frequencies an aural and cohesive covering that at the same time also respectfully encompassed traditions, histories and cultures that would underscore plus compliment the visual storyboard.

I was inspired by the storyline, theme and depth of sincerity of the overall vision from discussions with Bryony. These are honest voices that speak with gravitas from their lived experiences and at the same resonate truthfully with my own understanding of the difficulties, journeys and triumphs that many have had to endure to not just survive but thrive.”

Ming hails from Long Island, New York where she grew up training in traditional Hispanic folk dances. Ming went on to receive a BA in dance performance from Palm Beach Atlantic University in 2014.

They developed a love for experimental and postmodern dance whilst working as a production apprentice at New York Live Arts. It was there that Ming had the opportunity to work with artists, such as Miguel Gutierrez, Okwui Okpokwasili, and Bill T. Jones. Ming then carried on to receive an MFA in Choreography from Roehampton University. In 2018 they received a Choreographic Thesis Prize and graduated with distinction.

Ming is currently dancing and working with Nicola Conibere, H2Dance, and Seke Chimutengwende.

Oluwatosin Omotosho is a dancer, choreographer, actor and model. Her style can be described as an experimental, exploration form of movement. Her main movement styles are Hip-hop and Street Dance, specialising in Waacking, House, Locking, Popping & Vogue. She also has training in Contemporary dance, Musical Theatre, Jazz, Jazz-funk, Commercial dance and African dance/Afro Dance. Oluwatosin’s work history ranges from live shows and music videos to theatre and commercials. Her credits include Chaka Khan, MTV EMA, Saweetie, Lil Simz, Anne-Marie, Becky Hill, Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony, Jorja Smith, The Brits Awards, Stormzy, Burna Boy, The Mobo Awards & more.

Oluwatosin trained and continues to develop her artistry at Runway House, a Professional Training House for high quality training from the best Artists and Choreographers in the UK. In 2019 she won a scholarship in 2019 to train with world renowned Choreographer, widely known as Beyoncé’s Choreographer, Jaquel Knight.

Carolyn Bolton is a British/American dancer, lecturer and choreographer residing in London.

Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Carolyn began her pre-professional training at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities before completing her Bachelor of Arts in Dance Performance/Choreography from the University of South Carolina. She went on to study at the Martha Graham School for Contemporary Dance and Bejart Ballet Lausanne before joining Rambert Dance Company.

Ben Foot is co-director of SDNA, a creative studio with a track record of delivering distinctive digital artworks and vibrant interactive experiences for galleries and museums, heritage and civic sites, performances and festivals.

Their interdisciplinary approach aims to widen the scope of, and increase, accessibility to digital art, exploring techniques of interaction between audience, space and performance.

They animate galleries and public spaces with bold and imaginative displays to engage and inspire new and diverse audiences in fresh and exciting ways.

Their projects have taken place internationally from Japan to South Africa and Polynesia.

Valentina Floris is co-director of SDNA, a creative studio with a track record of delivering distinctive digital artworks and vibrant interactive experiences for galleries and museums, heritage and civic sites, performances and festivals.

Their interdisciplinary approach aims to widen the scope of, and increase, accessibility to digital art, exploring techniques of interaction between audience, space and performance.

They animate galleries and public spaces with bold and imaginative displays to engage and inspire new and diverse audiences in fresh and exciting ways.

Their projects have taken place internationally from Japan to South Africa and Polynesia.

Ingrid Hu is a Taiwanese born scenographer, designer and creative director based in London. Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2002 she has been working in theatre and in multidisciplinary design, including with the award-winning Heatherwick Studio.

Working with a wide range of materials and techniques, Ingrid responds to narratives from varied perspectives. Her designs often involve transformative elements and material experimentation. She has designed for theatre, dance and sound performances, as well as exhibitions and installations in the public realm.

“I'm inspired by the restless creativity behind both scientific and artistic inquiry. We don't need another image of the butterfly, but a powerful image of women who keep transforming, adapting, and influencing their surroundings. The costume enables that transformation and empowerment.”

Bumi Thomas is a contemporary Scottish Nigerian singer-songwriter whose ethereal voice stokes the soul transcendentally. Her evocative acoustic style is inspired by her multicultural heritage expressed visually and sonically as invocations of non-linear identity. “I tell stories about movement, migration, displacement, joy and humanity with the intent to transcend and transform”.

Driven by the power of music and art as catalysts for social change, she curates space for trans-cultural dialogue centralising the role of the female voice in evolving cultures. Her latest Ep 'Broken Silence' was described as ‘Timely and visceral’ by the Sunday Times and ‘Strikingly Original’ by London Jazz News. The lead single 'Black Child' was featured Live on BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends and at Edinburgh International Festival.

“Working on The Colour of Transformation has been a powerful experience. I love the intentional exploration of butterfly metamorphosis as it relates to inner strength, innate design and the feminine principle of creation. My approach was guided by the process of rebirth, the womb as the chamber of life and the transformative, guided by the resonance of the inner voice, rejecting the conditioning of the external world, in passage to a state of revolutionary consciousness.”