About

Dominique Palmer is a Climate Communicator, Global Speaker, Writer, Consultant and advocate of slow and sustainable  fashion based in the U.K. Sky News named her one of the U.K’s most high profile youth activists.
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She is a Trustee and organiser of Climate Live, global youth-led concerts harnessing the power of music to engage, educate and empower. She is a founding member of the Youth Climate Justice Fund- and serves on its Steering Committee. It is the first global youth to youth- led climate fund. She is an ambassador for the Climate and Nature Bill, campaigner for #StopRosebank, and an organiser in the UK Black Eco Feminist Collective. She is listed as  Climate Expert on Climate Reframe. She works to make the environmental sector inclusive and wants everyone to connect/reconnect with nature!
 
She co-authored 'Rewilding Dream' part of the Southbank Centre Schools Project. writes op-eds and pieces for published books. She also speaks on a concept she created  'Climate Joy' , harnesses the creative power of the arts to communicate climate issues, and finds joy through uniting. As a new music artist, her upcoming debut is set for 2025. As someone who harnessed creative means, she can consult on climate films, documentaries, theatre and more.
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Palmer is a winner of the prestigious Planetary Health Award in by the Prince Albert II Foundation. Won the ‘Future Figure’ award by BBC 1XTRA for contributions to the black community, was named a ‘Future Icon’ in Country & Townhouse’ inaugural List. In 2023, was honoured as a ‘Young Leader’ at the Green Carpet Fashion Awards. She was also named in Forbes 2020 Top U.K Environmentalists List for her work, and has featured in British Vogue, Mission Magazine, Guardian film “Whose Job is it To Save the Planet?” , BBC, DAZED, Refinery29, Stylist, Atmos and more .She was named one of the U.K’s most high profile youthactivists on Sky News, and appears in New York Times, Huffington Post, BBC Three, National Geographic, Guardian Weekend, Washington Post, Bustle, PopSugar, Global Citizen, Healthline, and more .
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She is an engaging and powerful speaker, and has spoken on world stages about Climate Justice, her activism, and inspiring hope and action at events such as UN Climate Change Conference COP26, the mainstage of Sziget festival to thousands of attendees, the Southbank Centre to over 2,500 the New York Times Hub, Southbank Centre with an audience of 2,700, the UN Women CWS66 Youth Forum,at COP25 with the Indigenous Pavillion, Leeds International Festival of Ideas,and TEDxCountdown with Climate Reality. She has spoken alongside changemakers and figures such as Emma Watson, Malala, Billie Eilish, Greta Thunberg, Mary Robinson, Naomi Klein, Simon Kofe, Vanessa Nakate, and more.Harnessing the creative arts to communicate the climate, and finding joy is a focus of hers. She has hosted a panel at Overheated with Billie Eilish at the O2, held an event at the Southbank Centre titled ‘Climate Joy and Optimism,’ recorded a song for earth day with Swedish grammi winning artist Titiyo, delivered a worksop with Live Out for the Grammy Museum, and presented the influential power of the arts for climate action at the Barbican.She was a co-author and performer for ‘Rewilding Dream’ a magical story of resorting nature, refugee children who walk this world seeking a safe place to call home, and protecting our planet, which she did live readings in theatres across the U.K with the Southbank Centre
 
She became an environmentalist after discovering how air pollution was impacting her community, and started her journey in climate action. The same year she was involved in organising the September 2019 climate strikes which brought 300,000 people on the streets in the U.K, and inspiring people across the world to take climate action.
 
She is also passionate about sustainable fashion, and veganism. She has walked Kornit fashion week show with Anyango Mpinga, featured in the Sunday Times for sustainable brand 'Mother of Pearl', and has modeled for brands environmental campaigns including PANGAIA family campaign, and Kurt Geiger ‘People Empowered.’
 
She was part of the UN Women’s Feminist Action Coalition for Climate Justice with Fridays for Future MAPA , and a contributor in the co-development of the Global Youth Recommendations: Youth, Gender, and Climate Change. She pushes for equitable climate action, and pressures leaders to act. She is an Arctic Angel for Global Choices and a Treaty Champion for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Additionally, she is a Contributing Climate Justice editor with @feminist on Instagram and author for Shado Mag.
 
Dominique has also consulted a wide range of funders, brands and companies on engaging Gen Z, and sustainability, as well as delivered workshops on topics ranging from Eco-Anxiety, to sustainable practices.
 
She has judged for awards such as Photo VOGUE, and the Country & Townhouse Brand Awards. She has also collaborated with  brands for content creation including  Spotify, Lush, Sky Tv Nature, and Rainforest Alliance.She is now a recent graduate student of the University of Birmingham studying Political Science and International Relations, and wrote her dissertation on the intersection of climate change and gender, with a focus on how interconnected identities shape experiences of Climate Justice.