Emily is a social anthropologist, project manager and creative practitioner. She is co-founder and Creative Director of Awel Aman Tawe (AAT) which has been a pioneer in Community Energy. She has written and designed all AAT’s publications including a Windfarm Consultation Toolkit published by the UK Government in 2002, all Awel and Egni Share Offer Documents, and many academic papers regarding community energy. She established AAT’s arts and climate change programme in 2010 and is currently project managing Hwb y Gors – a redevelopment of the former Cwmgors primary school into a low-carbon arts, education and enterprise community hub. Emily’s passion is in engaging people in climate action and she has carried out many projects to that effect. Among these, her favourites are:  AAT’s Naked Renewable Energy calendar 2007; her Sustainable Moon Mission in 2019 involving over 700 people in building a Lunar capsule where she lived as artist in residence for 2 weeks on the top floor of Pontardawe Arts Centre; and her walk across Wales (2012) on which she asked every person she met ‘3 questions about climate change’ creating verbatim poems from their answers which she has delivered at Welsh Government and other climate conferences in UK and Europe. She was selected as one of the Wellbeing of Future Generations Commissioner’s Changemakers in 2023.