After Hours: A Night with Generation Hope

Christian Ching

Christian is one of our PhD students, and is partnered with the University of Southampton and Conservation International Asia Pacific. He specialises in Southeast Asian biodiversity, having worked with insects, fish, amphibians and reptiles. Currently, Christian’s research focuses on new methods to monitor animal populations in tropical forests, using a combination of traditional surveys, genetics and soundscape analyses. 

Dr Sebastian Eastham

Sebastian is Associate Professor in Sustainable Aviation at Imperial College London and a member of the Brahmal Vasudevan Institute for Sustainable Aviation. With a background combining aeronautical engineering with atmospheric science, he’s spent 15 years exploring how high-altitude emissions impact the environment. This includes understanding why red-eye flights might be worse for the climate than daytime ones, explaining how aviation impacts air quality far beyond the airport and investigating the diverse effects of potential future attempts at climate engineering.

Kat Hamilton

Kat is the Executive Director of youth-led climate organisation Force of Nature. Through virtual programmes, the organisation empowers young people and decision-makers in more than 50 countries to cultivate mindsets of agency, purpose and resilience.

Dr Ken Johnson

Ken is one of our principal researchers. He studies the history of coral reef systems, covering time scales spanning from decades to millions of years. Documenting how reefs have responded to past environmental changes will help us understand how they might respond to future changes and how best to protect them.

Larissa Pinto Moraes

Larissa is a black woman from the Brazilian Amazon region. She co-founded Òré Kizomba – a black feminist consultancy for activists and organisations – and was Executive Director of youth-led organisation Engajamundo, working with social and environmental issues. In her climate justice activism, she’s interested in discussions about the impacts that the climate crisis has on marginalised groups. She focuses on the power of resilience these communities have on withstanding and protecting the environment.

Rachel Keane

Rachel is the Partnerships Lead at youth-led climate organisation Force of Nature. She works with the organisation’s global youth community and partners to deliver local climate cafes and online skills development training.

Megan (Meg) Stillwell 

Meg is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Force of Nature, a youth non-profit mobilising mindsets for climate action. She’s passionate about climate justice and creating a greener, fairer world for all. 

Richard Sabin

Richard is our Principal Curator of Mammals. His work focuses on the study of whales and dolphins – known collectively as cetaceans – using the world-class research collections we care for. He’s currently exploring how cetaceans interact with their environment, each other and us. Richard supports wildlife conservation, UK and international law enforcement and is our advisor to the UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme. He works closely with the arts and humanities exploring the hidden histories of collections, enjoys writing and giving talks and is dedicated to diversifying museum audiences.

Rhys Leighton

Rhys has been involved in conservation for years, winning RSPB Young Volunteer of the Year in 2024 and New Forest Young Environmental Champion in 2025. He now works as an assistant ecologist at an ecological consultancy. He also runs the Instagram account @rhystouringnature where he discusses climate change, conservation and the intersectionality of these issues.

Larissa Pinto Moraes

Larissa is a black woman from the Brazilian Amazon region. She co-founded Òré Kizomba – a black feminist consultancy for activists and organisations – and was Executive Director of youth-led organisation Engajamundo, working with social and environmental issues. In her climate justice activism, she’s interested in discussions about the impacts that the climate crisis has on marginalised groups. She focuses on the power of resilience these communities have on withstanding and protecting the environment.

Russell Reed

Russell is an environmentalist and writer based in London. He’s the founder of Geographer, a non-profit creative studio fostering cultural engagement in the environmental movement. A prominent intergenerational justice organiser, Russell’s led youth delegations to numerous United Nations negotiations and co-architected the NDC Youth Clause Campaign. He served as Conservation Manager of Virunga National Park in Eastern Congo and as a founding member of biomaterials company Sway – winner of the Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize. His writing can be found in outlets including Atmos, Document Journal and Guernica, where he hosts the interview series Posthumanitarian.

Lira Valencia

After finishing her degree in Zoology, Lira spent years volunteering and working for several wildlife charities. She worked with the London Wildlife Trust for three years as one of their rangers at Walthamstow Wetlands, Europe’s largest urban wetlands. Lira is now a full-time freelance wildlife communicator. She works with organisations, charities and broadcasters to raise awareness on the importance of urban wildlife and why we should connect urban communities to the nature around them.

• Bring a maximum of three pre-loved clothing items. Items should be clean and ready to wear. No underwear or hosiery are allowed.

• Drop off your donations from 18:30 to 19:00 to give us time to prepare the station.

• The swap will be open from 19:15 to 21:15. Pick out whatever items you like and take them home.

• Bringing donations is not required for participation. Ideally, we’d like to limit the number of leftovers, so take as much as you’d like.

• At the end of the swap, any remaining items will be donated to a local charity.