Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Robert Bilott, environmental attorney and partner at Taft Stettinius and Hollister LLP and author. Andrea Macdonald comments: When you think of environmental justice, many hot-button issues spring to mind, such as climate change, global warming, and pollution. What we don’t, unfortunately, hear enough about, are the people fighting for […]
Category Archives: Founder Interviews
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Jan
Jan
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Mayor Zarifa Ghafari, the first female mayor of Maidan Shahr, capital city of a province in Afghanistan and voted as one of the BBC 100 Women of 2019. Andrea Macdonald comments: The current war in Afghanistan began with the United States invasion on 7 October 2001. It has cost […]
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Dec
Dec
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Richard Whitehead, MBE, known until 2 years ago by millions for his distinct running style, world records and multiple gold medals in the T42 100m and 200m. Richard Whitehead runs like lightning – he is the Usain Bolt of The Paralympics! Since 2017 Richard still has the formidable winning […]
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Dec
Dec
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Ali Jawad, Paralympic gold medalist and world record breaking powerlifter. “When I was born the doctor wanted to kill me!”, Ali Jawad. Jawad, is a Paralympic gold medalist and world record breaking powerlifter with Crohn’s disease who was influenced by American sprinter Michael Johnson whom he saw on the […]
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Nov
Nov
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Dr Sam Illingworth, PhD Atmospheric Physics, Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. Dr Illingworth is a “poet scientist” who believes that poetry is a powerful tool to communicate and explore science. He is passionate about encouraging the cross fertilisation of ideas from one […]
02
Sep
Sep
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Tilly Lockey. Tilly Lockey, the girl who is making prosthetics cool and her father Adam Lockey, recently spoke with Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme. They discussed Tilly’s incredible journey to becoming a worldwide spokesperson for prosthetics and meningitis awareness. Tilly Lockey is not your average 13 year old girl. […]
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Aug
Aug
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director and Lead Principal Dancer for the English National Ballet. Tamara Rojo ideaXme’s mission is to Move the human story forward!™. In today’s interview, this concept of movement takes on a literal meaning of moving the human body forward. We explore the new, evolving and […]
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Jul
Jul
Composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg talks with Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme about her unique journey to compose The Moons Symphony as well as the collaborative nature of the project. The Moon Landing’s 50th Anniversary On Saturday, 20 July 2019, the world witnessed the 50th Anniversary of the first humans landing on The Moon. A huge […]
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Mira Rai, award-winning and record-breaking Sky Runner, Ultra Runner and Trail Runner for Salomon. Mira’s accolades include the prestigious National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, 2017 and Asia Game Changer award 2018. Mira Rai and Preeti Khattri She uses her “athlete’s voice” and sports expertise as founder of the […]
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Apr
Apr
Andrea Macdonald, founder of ideaXme, interviews Stephen Furber, ICL Professor, Computer Engineering at the University of Manchester and Creator of SpiNNaker. SpiNNaker is short for Spiking Neural Network Architecture. It is a super ‘human like’ computer, which has been in the planning for 20 years. It is a neural network computer, the current main focus […]
