Jocelyn Stokes

Jocelyn Stokes is an award-winning conservation filmmaker, with formal training in wildlife science and environmental journalism. For the past decade, Stokes has worked with leading conservationists to communicate the impact of their work with a global audience.

She works with the BBC, National Geographic, Mongabay.com, Odyssey Institute, Common Seas and Raleigh International among others.  In 2012, Stokes founded the international conservation awareness campaign, Survival of the Sun Bears. She then directed a multi-stakeholder environmental education and alternative-livelihood sustainability program endorsed by the U.S. Embassy of Malaysia. She co-produced annual international wildlife conservation conferences for rainforest-communities in Sabah, Malaysia with nonprofit Future Alam Borneo. In 2018, Stokes directed an award-winning short film advocating for nonprofit Health in Harmony’s community-led programs in Indonesia that work to mitigate illegal logging through sustainable livelihood training. In 2019, her documentary film on rainforest and wildlife conservation in Borneo was an official selection of the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival. Stokes is currently a correspondent for leading conservation and environmental science news publication, Mongabay. This year she was invited to speak at the screening of her film at the 2020 Earth Optimism Summit at the Smithsonian Institute.