Emmanuel Maunganidze
Maunganidze is a campaigner for environmental justice, and a diversity and inclusion consultant within the green industry. He works primarily with nonprofit and public sector organisations such as the National Trust, Voscur, City to Sea, The Crafts Council, Resource Futures, Future Economy Network, and Bristol City Council.
As an artist, he is an RSA fellow, and recently completed a fellowship with Bristol and Bath Creative R+D.
Maunganidze is a Director of Bristol Green Capital Partnership, Chairperson of East side Community Trust, Education Lead at The Global Goals Centre, and founder of Nature Youth Connection and Education CIC.
December 1984
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean
2006-2010 – University of Birmingham, BA in Politics & Philosophy
2017-2019 – teacher at the Steiner Academy Bristol
2020-2021 – Fellowship – Bristol & Bath R+D Expanded Performance
2019 – present – non-executive director, Bristol Green Capital Partnership
2018 – present – Project Director, Nature Youth Connection and Education
2020 – present – Education and Engagement Lead, Global Goals Centre
He was born and brought up in Zimbabwe, then Switzerland before coming to the UK.
By the age of thirty five, he had been teaching for ten years in Bristol and had a daughter.
As a teacher in Bristol, Maunganidze coordinated events and activities through schools to raise awareness of local environmental issues.
Travelling between a school in Clifton to one in Fishponds, he noticed the difference in attitude between the white children for whom going to the Mediterranean or a woodland walk were ordinary activities, to those of their less privileged but more diverse counterparts, who may never even have left Bristol. He always tried to connect his students to nature via his lesson plans.
By 2020, having lived in Easton for almost 10 years he joined the Board of East side community centre. He also sits on advisory boards for Bristol Green Capital Partnership, and National Trust Southwest.
Maunganidze has recently set up Nature Youth Connection & Education (NYCE) which aims to use nature connection skill-building to mentor and provide ecological education for economically and culturally marginalised urban youth from Bristol.
Maunganidze is a keen long distance runner and cyclist, writer,and artist, as well as a father
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https://eastsidecommunitytrust.org.uk/about/our-people
https://globalgoalscentre.org/about-us/our-team/
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