Fiona Macklin: Race to Zero
Fiona Macklin (2012) is the Race to Zero Campaign Manager for UN High Level Climate Champions. Fiona attended and spoke at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt earlier this month.
Food for thought
Jacob Kenedy (1999) is a chef and owner of Bocca di Lupo, Gelupo and Plaquemine Lock. Here he tells us about his culinary inspirations and the motivations behind each of his eateries.
Henry Choong on the modern pentathlon
Henry Choong (2015) is currently ranked second in Great Britain for the modern pentathlon. Here he tells us more about the sport, his intensive training regime and his ambitions for the future.
Crossing continents by rickshaw and Ford Fiesta
Joanne Flitcroft (1989) is Founder and Director of legal consultancy Opallios Limited. She has a passion for travel and her charity work has taken her on some wild adventures all over the world.
Reinventing places for work
Charles Armstrong (1990) is Founder and CEO of The Trampery, a company providing workspaces, venues, training and management services based in London. Here he tells us about its social aims and impact, and his ambitions for the future.
Climate entrepreneurship
Satowa Kinoshita (2013) is a self-described climate entrepreneur. In this article she tells us about how she came to this role and why it is so important.
A Lebanon to come back to
Aya Majzoub (2010) is a researcher for Human Rights Watch in Beruit. Here she tells us about her work investigating human rights abuses in Lebanon.
A festival year marking 40 years of women at St John’s
Activities in College marking the anniversaries of the admission of female undergraduates, postgraduates and Fellows.
A life volcanic
Professor Tamsin Mather (1995) studied Natural Sciences at St John’s specialising in Chemistry and then returned in 2001 to do a PhD in Earth Sciences. She is now a Professor of Volcanology at the University of Oxford. Her work has taken her all over the globe in a quest to understand more about the world’s volcanoes.
Music outreach trip to King’s Hedges Educational Federation primary school
Alumna Rachel Addison (2000), music teacher at King’s Hedges Educational Federation, invited students from St John’s to play live music for the school children.
Johnian Winter Olympians
Fiona Colbert, the College’s Biographical Librarian, has been checking the treasure trove of biographical records to find information about past Johnian involvement in the Winter Olympics.
New Year Honours List 2022
Three Johnians were recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2022.
In vino veritas: the story of Niew Vineyards
Dr Tai Ran Niew (1988) left a career in investment banking to pursue a journey in wine and has established his own vineyard in Oregon, USA.
Keeping the water flowing
Alison Wedgwood (1992) is co-founder and CEO of eWater Services, a company providing affordable, pay-as-you-go access to clean, sustainable water across Africa.