The Team
Stephen once tagged along on a Cool Earth press trip to the Amazon, moonlighting as a journalist, and has been with us ever since. He calls New York City home (though one wonders why), where he works tirelessly developing Cool Earth’s education initiative. He founded the Cool Earth Teacher Fellowship, a program - and heart’s work - that supports the development of teachers through expeditionary learning experiences in the Amazon Rainforest.
Stephen Brodbar
Trustee, Cool Earth Action USA
Daylar is the most cheerful person we have ever come across, which in itself is one of the reasons she is such a successful local coordinator, assisting Nazario in all that he does. She is never afraid to get stuck in and gives everything her all. The Asháninka women absolutely love her.
Daylar Capaquia
Field Assistant (Consultant)
Hannah is the founder of Verdun PR and Cool Earth's go to girl when it comes to all things press related.
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Hannah Bryce
Verdun PR
Sarah’s come a long way from her childhood days of torturing woodlice. In fact, she loves animals now. So much so that she has dedicated years of her life to working alongside them in several tropical locations such as Cambodia, Costa Rica and the Congo. As a result, Sarah’s knowledge of the rainforest is second to none. Luckily for us, she’s turned her attention from insects to indigenous people, managing our rainforest partnerships with an efficiency rarely seen here at Cool Earth.
Sarah Cheetham
Programme Manager
Isaac is the most practical person we have ever managed to work with. Whether it’s fixing a massive truck’s puncture with a bicycle repair kit or stripping an outboard at sea, nothing defeats him. In his new role as Biodiversity Officer at Gadaisu, he has already tracked down the elusive crowned pigeon and we suspect he’ll soon rediscover the dodo.
Isaac Dauge
Biodiversity Officer
John Gummer, Baron Deben is a former MP for Suffolk Coastal and a member of the House of Lords. He’s the chairman of the UK’s Independent Committee on Climate Change. He also chairs the sustainability consultancy Sancroft International. He was instrumental in the passing of the Climate Change Act in 2008.
LORD DEBEN
Trustee
Justine is Cool Earth's communications queen. When she's not championing social media and enticing supporters with witty copy, you'll find her illustrating or playing the harp. Is there any end to her talents?
Justine Read
Communications Assistant
Johan is a rare thing. As well as one of Europe’s most successful businessmen, he was committed to actively protecting the environment well before it became fashionable. With Frank Field he came up with the idea of saving trees from the ground-up, he also thought of the name “Cool Earth.”
JOHAN ELIASCH
Co-founder and Trustee
Mark pretty much invented independent travel when he launched the Rough Guides in 1982. As well as helping us all “make the most of your time on earth”, he has published the most interesting books on saving the planet and the best ones on world music.
MARK ELLINGHAM
Trustee
So much of what Cool Earth does is only possible because companies, small and large, recognise we’re onto something special. Lauren makes sure our business backers are up to date with everything we do, creating partnerships like no other. A true people person, Lauren makes friends for life and when not waxing lyrical about the merits of Cool Earth, is apparently a musician of some repute.
Lauren Faulkner
Business Development Manager (on maternity leave)
Cat Walker
Programme Officer
It’s not proven but we’re pretty sure Chris eats, sleeps and dreams in Javascript. Although, evidence does stem from his daily routine of pressing random keys and clicking the mouse a bunch 'o times in order to make the Cool Earth website a better place for all. He’s also been a vegan for the last 12 years and could teach the team a thing or two about a good diet.
Chris Bird
Back End Developer
Frank is Britain’s clearest thinking politician. With fifty years of campaign experience, he has probably done more to improve the lives of children in poverty and low paid workers than any of his parliamentary colleagues. In 2007 he turned his attention to climate change and launched Cool Earth.
Frank Field MP
Co-founder and Trustee
After being frustrated by the limited options available for U.S. donors (himself included) interested in doing something to combat deforestation, Jed led the effort to organise and form the US entity of Cool Earth and has been a trustee ever since. Jed is a developer of long-term public-private partnerships for infrastructure and focuses on energy efficiency, sustainability and resiliency. Based in New York City, he spends an inordinate amount of time turning off peoples’ office lights and computer monitors. Jed also serves on several boards and advisory committees of non-profits, including the Morgan Library & Museum.
Jed Freedlander
Trustee, Cool Earth Action USA
Lewis is Cool Earth’s chief pixel wrangler and the son that Matthew Owen never had. When he’s not making Cool Earth look the part, you can find Lewis watching his favourite chick flick, Mean Girls, surfing the Cool Earth image bank, or buying drones so our donors can enjoy the full rainforest experience from the comfort of their own homes.
Lewis Gillingham
Visual Assets Officer
Ben is evangelical about Cool Earth and spends his time helping spread the word. As well as putting together some of our most exciting business partnerships, he has attended more networking events than any life can bear. To cope with this, Ben is a skilled boxer (really?) and recently won a light middleweight bout (again, really?).
Ben Gray
Business Partnership Manager
Marianela is a master of admin, keeping everything running smoothly in our Ashaninka office, enabling Nazario and Daylar to work their magic in the field. She’s also a demon on the radio system keeping in touch with the day to day goings on in and community. Marianela has a heart of gold, and has been a huge support helping look after emergency evacuation patients from our partner communities. She’s by far our most glamorous team member, having been a beauty pageant contestant in her teens.
Marianela Guerra Camayteri
Administrative Assistant
Football manager, prize winning photographer, mother of four - that’ll be Daisy, our Local Coordinator for the Orangerie Bay Partnership. With years of experience working for Milne Bay Government, we couldn’t have found a more organised and hardworking member of the team than Daisy. The fact she might repeat her feat of getting the local women’s soccer team to the National Finals is just icing on the cake.
Daisy Halaba
Local Coordinator
As the Community Facilitator for Gadaisu, Wicky is the glue that holds everything together. Working from the heart of the community, he couldn’t be more conscientious and we’ve yet to find anything that is too much trouble. We’re looking into cloning him.
Wicky Isaac
Community Facilitator
Baroness Jenkin of Kennington is a PR consultant and Conservative member of the House of Lords. She’s campaigned to increase the number of female MPs and was made a life peer in 2011. She co-chairs the Conservative Friends of International Development and is passionate about reducing waste.
Baroness Anne Jenkin
Trustee
Chris heads up our Peru team and has really knocked our Peru operations into shape. A sophisticated management guru with a truly imposing CV, she is as unflappable as she is capable. Everyone around her would feel inadequate if we didn’t know she used to be a goth.
Chris Kuahara
Peru Project Manager
With 30 years of experience working alongside Asháninka communities, Nazario is the keystone of everything we do in the forest in Peru. He’s a technical wizard and what he doesn’t know about growing cacao, building houses and feeding hungry kids really isn’t worth knowing. And to top it all, like an Andean Tom Jones, he has a perfect contralto voice.
Nazario Manrique
Local Coordinator
As the father of five children, it’s no surprise that Basil is laser-focused on the future of his community. Combined with his unrivalled passion for the rainforest, this makes him the ideal Community Facilitator for the Wabumari partnership. No one is better at explaining the Cool Earth mission or putting it into practice.
Basil Matasia
Community Facilitator
When Buffy isn’t busy being 75% vegan you’ll find her working hard to keep The Adventurists happy and Cool Earth's fundraising and business relationships on point. Buffy is at the top of her game, and her tireless efforts to keep our supporters enthused means we can carry on doing what we do best. Arguably, Buffy’s biggest life achievement to date is the consumption of a whole Jamaica ginger cake. In one sitting. She’s also into aerial acrobatics, is there no end to her talents?
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Buffy Smith
Fundraising Officer
Finding the right fish-biologist-cacao-expert is never easy. Finding one in a remote corner of Peru who can turn their hand to just about anything is nigh on impossible. So when we came across Josue we knew our Awajún partnership would be in safe hands. With Nazario in the Asháninka, it means we have the best co-ordination teams in Peru.
Josue Morales
Local Coordinator (Consultant)
Matthew has been with Cool Earth from day one and still spends most of his time making sure we’re keeping all our promises. He is based in Cornwall but spends half his time out of the office raising money for our partner communities and generally telling any one who will listen about Cool Earth. When he’s not in work, Matthew picks up his three daughters from discos.
Matthew Owen
Director
Even in a rainforest charity, Hannah knows more about animals, birds and parasites than is really necessary. So whilst it’s nice to have one of the world’s leading experts on parakeets, her killer talent is monitoring our projects with a no nonsense precision usually only seen at NASA.
Dr Hannah Peck
Deputy Director
Chloe's passion is for storytelling, and getting to shine a light on the incredible stories coming from Cool Earth's rainforest partnerships is a dream come true. Never without a pack of post it notes, Chloe loves organised fun almost as much as she does her home county of Cornwall.
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Chloe Rickard
Communications Manager
Nicky’s knowledge of the forest around Wabumari is second to none. That’s why he couldn’t be more perfect for the Biodiversity Officer role in Wabumari. From fixing damaged camera traps to telling us about the bandicoots and flying foxes from his surveys, we’d be lost without him.
Nicky Roma
Biodiversity Officer
Despite her unconventional first name (it might be an acronym), N.O.G. is the epitome of professionalism and discipline. After a stellar career in broadcasting, she turned her attentions to fundraising and is the best in the business. Having secured the future of cathedrals and the monarchy, Nog is now making sure Cool Earth can keep pace with our community partners' passion for rainforest.
Nog Sawdon
Trusts Manager
The secret to Cool Earth’s approach is building livelihoods that keep the forest standing. Building community businesses is Alix’s speciality, whether it be high in the Andes or deep in the rainforest. As our Peru project coordinator, Alix seems to be adored by everyone, although we find her love of Harry Potter does grate.
Alix Silva
Peru Project Coordinator
Making seemingly unfathomable data look succinctly artful is what Lawrence does best. When he isn’t posting pictures of his cat, Lyubov, on her own dedicated Slack channel, you’ll find Lawrence spotting and quietly solving the kind of problems that have a tremendous impact on the day to day running of Cool Earth. Problems that are often overlooked by ‘normal’ humans.
Lawrence Welsby
Data and Insight Officer
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