Happy Healthy Us Podcast

Loving Better with Marion Osieyo (Sustainable Development Goals Hub Manager at WWF)

Episode Summary

In this episode we speak to Marion Osieyo who is the Sustainable Development Goals Hub Manager at WWF. We discuss loving better and what it means to fight for justice from a place of love particularly in relation to environmental justice.

Episode Notes

In this episode we speak to Marion Osieyo who is the Sustainable Development Goals Hub Manager at WWF. We discuss loving better and what it means to fight for justice from a place of love particularly in relation to environmental justice. 

Marion is launching ‘BlackEarth’, her own podcast later this year. Follow her on social media to get the latest details, we will be sharing this on our socials as well.

Marion Oseiyo 

Personal Website : https://marionosieyo.com/blog/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marionosieyo/?originalSubdomain

Instagram: @marion_osieyo

Twitter : @marion_AO

Marion Atieno Osieyo is an award-winning strategist and writer working to restore humanity’s relationship with the natural environment. She has launched several platforms for global action on sustainable development. In 2016, she co-designed and launched an online media platform, Young Leaders for Dev, hosted by the European Commission. Marion has also designed and led intergenerational dialogues and retreats on sustainable development in Nairobi, Brussels and Accra for activists and senior policy-makers. Marion currently convenes a global network on SDGs across WWF’s global network of 90 offices. She facilitates collective action for the implementation of the SDGs through strategic advocacy, private sector engagement and coalition building for the SDGs. She has previously worked with UNHCR, U.S. Congress and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. As a volunteer, Marion has worked with local women’s organisations including Baytree Centre, WONDER Foundation and Women at the Well. In 2020, she was awarded a WWF Panda Legend Award for Integrity and in 2015, she was awarded ‘Future Leader of International Co-operation and Development’ by the European Commission. She holds a Master of Science in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford.

Opinions expressed by Marion are her own and not the views of any organisations she is affiliated with.

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