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Adwoa Amankona (she/her) is an intersectional Geographer, specialising in Black British Cultural & Identity Geographies and Political Ecology. Adwoa recently completed her MSc course at the University of Oxford, studying Nature, Society and Environmental Governance, with her dissertation focussing on the Underwater Logging Industry in Lake Volta, Ghana. At the University of Oxford, Adwoa was the School of Geography and the Environment’s First Black Heritage Scholar, additionally funded by the Reuben Foundation and Academic Futures Scholarship. She is also a First-Class UCL BA Geographer Class of 2021, partaking in an integrated Year Abroad at the University of Sydney as part of her degree. Adwoa’s Bachelor’s dissertation was based on Black Student Space-Making Practices in Golden Triangle Universities and Black Excellence, winning the 2021 Royal Geographical Society: Race, Culture and Equality Working Group Dissertation Prize. Adwoa has had placements with Delta-Simons, Chiswick House & Gardens Trust, EY and CACI, but is currently working as a Junior Researcher with the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre.