Thimali Kodikara

Creative Impact Producer & Co-Host

Mothers Of Invention

Thimali Kodikara is creative impact producer and co-host of the groundbreaking podcast, Mothers Of Invention on feminist solutions to the climate crisis, focused on the work of BIPOC women and girls around the world. Alongside her co-hosts — former Irish president Mary Robinson and comedian Maeve Higgins — Thimali has interviewed state leaders to grassroots organizers on their innovations to avert climate catastrophe at its frontlines. As showrunner, Thimali has researched, developed and overseen the show’s unique editorial strategy. And as its impact producer, she has evolved the project into a reputable source for stakeholders to connect with and platform feminist climate leaders around the world. Thimali’s editorial achievements include negotiating and moderating a conversation with Senator Bernie Sanders days after the 2020 US presidential election; curating the first all-women climate justice programming at the American Museum of History New York featuring musician Patti Smith; and forging an educational collaboration with British fashion designer, Stella McCartney and her 6.8M Instagram community during the Black Lives Matter uprising. Thimali brokered these opportunities to platform BIPOC women climate leaders, successfully drawing high-profile attention, or monetary awards, to their critical work. In her commitment to ensuring women, global South voices and climate justice become integral to climate storytelling in mainstream media, Thimali has advised on BAFTA-albert’s climate education program for British film and television professionals, Edinburgh TV Awards’ Climate Impact Award submissions criteria, and Good Energy’s Climate Storytelling Playbook for Hollywood comedy writers. She has been invited to speak to professionals from myriad sectors, including mental health professionals, filmmakers, journalists, lawyers, and high-school students, to help them contextualize climate justice, racism, gender disparity and intersectional feminism, arts & culture and climate media to their work. Diverse audiences have included the European Foundation Centre, the National Association of Science Writers, the Contemporary Freudian Society, and Julie’s Bicycle. Thimali’s work has been recognized by the New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review and BBC Newshour for her unique innovations in climate storytelling. She has spoken to international audiences at cultural events, including UN climate conference COP26 Glasgow, Lincoln Center New York for the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and as judge of both the Berlin Human Rights Film Festival and EarthXFilm Festival, where she presented Oscar-winning, My Octopus Teacher its first major award. Thimali is the founder of multi-disciplinary creative agency, OneLoudBellow, and prior was a senior field producer for Getty Images New York. Thimali is a graduate of both Wimbledon School of Art & Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, and has lived in Brooklyn, New York for 18 years.