Emma Barrett Palmer, LLB, MSc, is the founder of humanKINDER Ltd, a company whose mission is to amplify silenced voices for whole systems change using social innovation, creative research, and humanitarian design. Emma was in the founding team, and lead at the first Social Innovation Lab in the UK government, where she curated the award-winning project called The Dementia Diaries. In 2019, the humanKINDER team was awarded a global design research prize by the European Academy of Design and South African Design Indaba for Recipes of HOPE using food as a catalyst to build community. Emma is currently writing a book that documents the food cooked and shared with displaced communities during a 16,000-mile journey across Europe in The Welcome Tent, an ex-army catering tent re-purposed for peace.
