At the moment I work as an environmental educator and advisor, working primarily with schools and school children. My work history is in regional (& sustainable) development, and I've worked on a project basis with various themes e.g. circular economy & nutrition recycling, maritime spatial planning & ecosystem services, eco-effective seafaring and environmental impact of micro enterprises. Geographically my work focuses mainly around the Baltic Sea and the Archipelago Sea region.

As a geographer I'm interested in the interactions between people, nature, places and spaces - how do we people change and affect our environment, and how does environment affect us. However, I like to think myself as a facilitator - when working in different projects I prefer to bring different actors together and facilitate knowledge and experience sharing so that we people could jointly come up with functioning solutions and everyday practices towards more harmonious and multi-species futures. I also work a lot with communication and sometimes have a role as a communication - I think communication is one of the most difficult things we people have to learn, both between us people and also between different species. Yet, communication and respect is what is needed for more harmonious futures.

To become more respectful and emotionally 'intelligent' facilitator and communicator. To learn more how different people handle facts and how emotions affect our decision making. I would also like to learn more / do research on how other / different species and the 'interests' of different species could be taken into account in planning and human activity processes.

Next arena for my personal growth is in practising gratefulness and hopefulness in the midst of a variety of global crisis.

I would like to engage in academic research & academic discussion. I would also like to work in between academia and grass roots - so much scientific research is done which is never published, disseminated or taken elsewhere in the society where it could be useful. At the same a lot of grass roots activities never end up in the academic focus or the focus of larger societal development, even if they could bring useful mindsets & perspectives for future development.

What a difficult and personal question - I don't really know how to frame my answer. I
have spent a lot of time studying, both in academic and vocational level. I don't think I've always had a very clear vision of where I'm heading, that's why it's difficult to think that I would have invested in something special to get where I am - I guess I have invested in time for learning new things and trying out new working tasks. I would like to be able to apply and to bring together the different knowledge I've gained (theoretical & practical), and share it with others with whom I could continue my learning journey.

Futures Research - Eleonora Masini, Sohail Inayatullah, Wendell Bell
Biopolitics - Michel Foucault, Antonio Negri
Human Geography - Doreen Massey, Edward Relph, David Harvey

I try to think that humans are 'only' one specie among others, even though it's difficult to think like this and remember this, since we can't directly communicate with many of the other species and it's also easy to not to see, hear or feel them, if we don't consciously choose to do this. I think my cosmology is defined by ecosystems thinking - I would like to understand more about the webs and nets of the ecosystem / biosphere that humans take part, so that we would gain more knowledge of how we can sustain and nourish our common ecosystems in more regenerative ways.
As part of my cosmology I think that respect, empathy and systems thinking are the keys for more flourishing multispecies futures.