Mary Ann Clements

Mary Ann Clements is an experienced leader of transformation in social change organisations. She’s also a facilitator and coach working with people who want to create change in the world. Mary Ann has a Masters in Anthropological Research from Goldsmiths University where her work focused on plural understandings of mental health.

Her writing about mental health and politics in Tanzania and about re-imagining international development has been published in academic journals and her Op Eds on transformation and reimagining in international development have been published by Alliance Magazine, Bright Magazine and Open Democracy.

Listening to our Grandmothers documents elder women’s lives and Red Tents: Unravelling our Past and Weaving a Shared Future, which Mary Ann co-authored with Aisha Hannibal is a guide to collective women’s circles as liberatory, inclusive spaces. Mary Ann is working on her first novel and currently lives in London.