Traci Lewis, Author at Catalyse Change

7 Tips for virtual internships & CV building

May 17, 2020

Hellie, a 2nd year student at Exeter Uni, shares her tips for boosting your employability through virtual internships and CV building. The coronavirus crisis has brought many challenges for young people. It has made it more difficult to find work and internships. Which has hampered our efforts to develop our CV’s. It can be frustrating leaving school or university and then feel like you are losing valuable time and experiences. So I am going to share my 7 top…

Would you like to Mentor a Young Woman?

May 1, 2020

Traci Lewis

Are you a woman working for social or environmental change who would like to help inspire the next generation of change makers? The Catalyse Change 2020.21 Mentoring programme is now open if you would like to mentor a young woman? The world is facing serious environmental and social problems, and now more than ever we are on the cusp of great change. Fridays for the Future have seen more than 13 million people taking to the streets across the globe…

What’s an online Green Career Masterclass like?

April 28, 2020

Traci Lewis

Taryn Everdeen shares her experiences of our recent ‘Feeding Britain’ – our 1st online Green Career Masterclass. We’re a month into lockdown when I hop onto Zoom to join Catalyse Change’s 1st online Green Career Masterclass ‘Feeding Britain.’ Having attended a few of their events before, I have high expectations of anything under the Catalyse Change banner–and I’m not disappointed. Faces join mine on the screen, some of them familiar–we met at the 2019 Catalyst Bootcamp–and others I don’t recognise.…

Why I mentor young women

April 18, 2020

Traci Lewis

Lucy, one of our Catalyse Change mentors, tells us all about her own varied sustainability career journey and why she has decided to now also mentor young women. Name: Lucy Gatward Current occupation: Freelance communications specialist on various sustainability projects. Current projects: Going for Gold Bristol – Food Sector Lead; City to Sea: managing Food Sector project. My sustainability career journey I can probably point to the start of my sustainability career in two parts. The first is accidental, the…