Alisha Fuller-Armah

Dr Alisha Fuller-Armah is the founder and inventor of BlazeBalm®, a patent-pending, bio-based wildfire defence that upcycles agri- and aquaculture waste into a non-toxic suppressant, retardant and protective membrane—designed to work without water, power, microplastics, harmful phosphates, PFAS or petrochemicals. An Earthshot Prize nominee (2026), she developed BlazeBalm independently in Scotland’s firevulnerable Southern Uplands, completing 30+ iterations before applying for and securing non-dilutive innovation funding in 2025.

Cambridge-educated (Art History and Social Anthropology) with a PhD in Business Management, Alisha taught herself much of the enabling biotechnology. She has founded and scaled regenerative ventures, including a multi-award-winning boutique destination wedding venue in the Caribbean, a butterfly farm supplying multinational hotel chains in the Americas, and—most recently in Scotland—a mushroom farm which cultivated the UK’s widest selection of gourmet mushrooms. She is now fully focused on scaling BlazeBalm.

Alisha has featured across broadcast and print media in the UK and the Americas, authored a children’s book, and most recently fronted an episode of What’s in Your Plant Pot? for BBC’s CBeebies channel, to introduce young TV audiences to the joys of mycology. However, her abiding focus and passion is scaling equitable, environmentally safe wildfire protection for communities living with wildfire globally.