This course is expected to examine how community voices, local knowledge, and storytelling can support understanding and stewardship of blue carbon ecosystems. Topics may include participatory approaches, ethics, and narrative methods grounded in place and lived experience. Content is indicative and may evolve.
Coming soon
This free course will be available through the Blue Carbon Kenya Hub, a national learning and resource centre on blue carbon. The Hub brings together training, data, and storytelling on the value of coastal ecosystems like mangroves and seagrasses, and is designed for practitioners, county and national officers, researchers, students, community groups, NGOs and private sector actors.
The Blue Carbon Kenya Hub is a key deliverable of the Blue Carbon component of the Strengthening Sustainable Blue Food Systems (SBFS) in Coastal Kenya programme (2025–2028). This programme supports Kenyan institutions led by KMFRI and partners to strengthen sustainable blue food systems in the Shimoni-Vanga region. It aims to enhance fisheries, mariculture, blue carbon conservation and equitable coastal development, and inform marine spatial planning.
The Hub is purpose-built to outlive the programme as a long-term national platform for learning, practice and knowledge exchange. Blue Carbon Kenya Hub website coming soon: https://bckhub.kmfri.go.ke
Instructor
I believe storytelling plays an important role in society, helping us understand the complexity of our world. My expertise lies in visual storytelling by means of art, animation, illustration and graphic design.
At GRID-Arendal, I collaborate with various partners to visually and artfully bring their stories to life. I am also developing the visual identity of GRID-Arendal as an organisation by exploring artistic, innovative and meaningful methods of visual communication. Previously, I have worked as an animator, storyboard artist, and illustrator in the animation, game, comic book, and film industries. My personal projects often involve cross-disciplinary storytelling, blending different art forms to explore new mediums of narratives
