Our Team Core Strategist Happy Bruno Partner and Core Strategist “We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!” Wangari Maathai Happy Bruno is co-founder of Bwindi Conservation for Generations Foundation, a service organization located in the southern region of Bwindi […]
Our Team Board Member Rosemary Alles President and Co-Founder “If we don’t include the indigenous who live with and adjacent to earth’s last wild creatures in the conversation about conservation, our planet’s iconic animals have already lost” Rosemary was born in Sri-Lanka; an island teardrop nestled by its giant neighbor, India. As a young child, […]
Our Team Board Member Hale Anderson Vice president, Finance and Social Media “Not everyone can be a revolutionary, yet all of us must be activists and stewards of the earth.” Hale is a filmmaker, an activist working for social justice, and a founding member of San Francisco March for Elephants. In 2002 he started his […]
Our Team Board Member Timothy Kamuzu Phiri Board Adviser “What we do in life echoes for eternity.” Maximus Decimus Meridius Timothy Kamuzu Phiri is an environmental educator based in Lusaka, Zambia. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of Mizu Eco-Care, an environmental conservation NGO. Timothy started his working career as a secondary school teacher […]
Our Team Core Strategist Salisha Chandra Advisor “We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!” -Wangari Maathai Salisha dubs herself a rebel with too many causes – an activist, a conservationist and an adventurer. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, she […]
Our Team Core Strategist Denise Dresner Co-founder and Core Strategist “But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can […]
Our Team Board Member Nkateko Letti Mzimba Board Adviser on Indigenous Communities “We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.” Wangari Maathai Nkateko is from the Hluvukani community in rural South Africa. Since 2014, she has […]
Our Team Board Member Nicolás Eliades Vesga International Climate and Ecological Emergency Communications Strategist “Humans are the only biological organism in history to have threatened the planet with mass extinction, yet we are also the only one capable of doing something about it. If we don’t act now, the planet will endure, but life will […]
Our Team Core Strategist Samarrth Khanna Core Strategist “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” -Mahatma Gandhi “Samarrth lives in Faridabad, India. His concern centers on the realization that India has not devoted adequate attention to the rich bio diversity in the country. […]
Our Team Core Strategist Maria Mossman Co-Founder and Adviser “People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.” -Sir David Attenborough Maria lives in the United Kingdom, a mother of two children and a big animal lover. Maria first became involved with advocacy […]
