(Re)Introducing: Flic, SGO Projects Officer

Who is Felicity Lindo?

Hello again! My name is Felicity, but you can call me Flic, and I am excited to be back again as one of your Student Green Office Projects Officers. I am currently in my third year of LL. B Law with International Relations and, unlike last year, have fully committed to a dream of academic research – open mind slowly closing. I still love cute things, and my favourite room in the house is the bathroom; due to the bath.

From my introductory blog last year, you may remember that I had some fairly consumerist hobbies, especially for an environmentalist, and I still do – somewhat. In a move that surprised everyone around me, I donated or discarded more than half of my belongings earlier this year, due to being diagnosed with a mental health disorder. This diagnosis, although very necessary, forced me to rethink the way that I moved around the world. Having too many items caused me a significant amount of stress, so I got rid of them.

I would like to be clear; I still carry around the Sylvanian Families’ mouse in my bag, for hard times, but I am a lot more careful with the things that I choose to bring into my space. An unexpected side-effect of this was losing one of my favourite hobbies, shopping, and gaining one of my favourite hobbies, the gym.

*Image Description: a young Flic waving her hands around in what one can only assume is a dance*

What is Felicity Lindo?

Not a gym rat – that’s for sure.

Over the summer, I spent (as I did last year) much of my time at the university. Working alongside Mary Makinde as a Closing Our Gap Student Partner Strategic Lead, within the marketing and communications team, working within natural and applied sciences for the science technicians as an accessible spaces’ initiative intern and a range of other jobs. You may have seen my pictures around the university or the website. You may have even seen me in the Your Journey to Success Module, Becoming a Change Agent Module or even The Digital Student Module.

When I wasn’t working in some way, my evenings were spent at the gym, spending at least two hours a weekday contorting in Yoga, defying gravity in boogie bounce or just having a good old natter in the changing room. This doesn’t mean I’m any good at it (just so you’re not disappointed if you ever see me there), but I have always had a passion for taking up space; making as many friends as possible and enjoying myself in the process, because you should be willing to be inconvenienced for your community, and I am inconvenienced in the best way: missing the train for a post-Zumba thirty minute catch up session.

When is Felicity Lindo?

*Image Description: A group of students walking through Anselm Lawn during a protest*

Felicity Lindo is now, just like how the time that we should be acting for our world is also now. Over the next academic year, my mission is to increase awareness of the things going on in our world, the good and the bad – the things we have fixed, and the things that we need to fix. This includes continuing my campaign for more plant-based food on campus (is this a petition?), writing lots of blog posts on the unseen impacts of our hobbies and habits, and doing a lot of complaining.

Where is Felicity Lindo?

Like Batman, I will be wherever the light of injustice shines: I am vengeance (for our plants)! I am the night (*Knight, collecting our rubbish)!

Why is Felicity Lindo?

All jokes aside, I am Felicity Lindo because I love everything around me. I love all of the small things, such as our creepy crawlies and I love the prospect of the world becoming a better place! As I’ve already mentioned, I am a passionate person with a love for complaining, but this complaining creates a community of people who like complaining as much as I do. I want to make our campus a place where everyone knows they can make a difference, and that they have people supporting them. Community is worth the ‘inconvenience’, especially if this inconvenience means that the people around us feel seen and heard.

How is Felicity Lindo?

I am good, thank you for asking.

The Academy contributes to my high spirits, as I am incredibly privileged to work alongside people who care about the planet just as much as I do. Sustainability should not be done alone, and I hope that after time, I am able to call everyone across campus that cares as much as I do, a friend – and that will make me really happy. I am so grateful to be back, in my second year in the SGO.