The Commonwealth Secretariat welcomes people from across the Commonwealth to share their special connections with the ocean via video. View the Sea of Voices video gallery below.
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2024
Empowering Waves - World Oceans Day 2024
Featuring: Yudmila Chunguan, Karen Sack, Hans Bathija, Rebecca Daniel, Shelley Addison-Bell, Michelle de la Harpe-Germani.
Team Antigua Island Girls
Featuring: Team Antigua Island Girls - Kevinia Francis, Christal Clashing and Samara Emmanuel
2023
Satya Narayana Rao
Student & Activist
Matthew Pierre-Rogers
Marine Biologist
Ibiso Ikiroma-Owiye
Climate Activist & Ocean Conservationist
David Henry
St. Lucia
Amon Muberuka
Youth Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth
Sweelan Renaud
Climate & Environmental Activist
Nafesha Richardson
Founder, SPARK SVG and Blue Charter Ocean Gender Outreach Assistant
Ruth Gutierrez-Corley
PhD Student in Islands and Small States Studies
2022
Vishal Prasad
Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change, Fiji
Dani Nembhard
Marine Scientist, Jamaica
Dainalyn Swaby
Commonwealth Blue Charter Youth Coordinator, Jamaica
Rotaract Club of Liguanea Plains
Jamaica
2021
Allen Boniface
SeyCCAT, Seychelles
Deepeeka Kaullysing
Senior Lecturer, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Chantal Nativel
Freelance Event Producer, South Africa
Rahanna Juman
Acting Director, Institute of Marine Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago
Sally Earthrowl
Mission Leader, eXXpedition, United Kingdom
Nikkey Dawn
Ocean advocate, eXXpedition and Co-founder Seakin Collective
2020
Kristina Gjerde
The International Union for Conservation of Nature
Angelique Brathwaite
Director Wider Caribbean and Co-founder Blue finance, Barbados
James Nikitine
Founder and CEO, Blue Cradle, New Zealand
Alan Deidun
Ocean Ambassador for Malta, Malta
2019
Emily Penn
Founder, eXXpedition, United Kingdom
Afroz Shah
Environment Change Champion of the Earth, India
Beverly Wade
Director, Belize Fisheries Department, Belize
Alexandra Cousteau
Senior Adviser, Oceana
Dr Michael White
Marine Zoologist, Tongareva Atoll, New Zealand
Chris Mcowen
Lead Marine Scientist, UNEP - WCMC, United Kingdom
Taholo Kami
Special Representative for Oceans, Fiji
Vincent Meriton
Vice President, Seychelles
Lewis Pugh
UN Patron of the Oceans, United Kingdom
2018
Thérèse Coffey
UK Department of Environment, United Kingdom
Ralph Regenvanu
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vanuata
Peter Thomson
United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean, Fiji
Ellen MacArthur
Ellen MacArthur Foundation, United Kingdom
Pen Hadow
Artic Ocean explorer, United Kingdom
Holly Neate
Marine Science Educator, Canada
Shamoy Hajare
Jamaica School for Social Entrepreneurship, Jamaica
Angelique Pouponneau
CEO of SeyCCAT, Seychelles
Alistair Graham
World Wide Fund for Nature International, United Kingdom
Timothy Gordon
Marine Biologist, United Kingdom
Oliver Glanville
Rowing World Record Holder, United Kingdom
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The Commonwealth Secretariat welcomes people from across the Commonwealth to share their special connections with the ocean via video.
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