May East
May East
May East is a sustainability educator, spatial planner, and social innovator. Her work spans the fields of ‘artivism’, urban ecology, and women’s studies. Designated one of the 100 Global SustainAbility Leaders three years in a row, she leads a whole generation of regenerative educators and practitioners in 49 countries working with community-based organisations and intergovernmental agencies in the development of policy guidance and projects strengthening climate resilience, food security, and livelihood action. A UNITAR Fellow she has an MSc in Spatial Planning with specialisation in the rehabilitation of abandoned villages. Her passion is to co-develop Project-Based Learning trajectories supporting indigenous and migrant communities and their traditions to survive in rapidly changing environments while enhancing their opportunities to become the designers of their desired future.
Knowledge Cloud
Country: UK, Brazil
Academic Titles: MSc Spatial Planning
Website: https://gaiaeducation.org/
Teaching language: English, Portuguese
EDEs Facilitated:
Findhorn, Scotland x 11
UMAPAZ, São Paulo x 6
Gaia Rio, Brazil x 5
Gaia Sul- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and Insituto Caminho do Meio, Brazil x 3
Gaia Curitiba, Brazil x 3
Ecobairro Salvador, Brazil x 2
Gaia Brasília, Brazil
Amagaia, Céu do Mapiá, Amazon, Brazil
Universidade Estadual do Ceará, Brazil
Gaia Transition Brasilândia, Brazil
Middle East Technical University, Turkey x 2
Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey
Espacio E.C.O., Argentina
Wongsanit, Thailand
Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Siddarth Village Orissa, India
Son Rul-lan, Mallorca, Spain
Bangladesh Association for Sustainable Development, Bangladesh
Podor Region, Senegal
Press articles:
How one Brazilian slum is blurring the boundary between forest and city
The Guardian, 31 October 2014
Bringing ‘handmade, slow-made and well-made’ back to Christmas giving
The Guardian, 22 December 2014
Mountain to climb in solving the world’s problems in a sustainable way
The Scotsman, 2 March 2018
Do-it-yourself ideas take root in the fertile minds of India’s hill
The Scotsman, 11 July 2018
SDGs – One City at the Time
The Scotsman, 25 October 2018
Facilitation
