Angela Baker

Angela Baker is the Albury and region program coordinator for OzGREEN. She has been working in environmental education and for non-profit environment groups since 2002 and is totally committed to supporting the amazing groups and individuals that cross her path to become sustainability leaders and change makers. Having experienced her own trials and tribulations along the way, Angela knows what it is like to feel overwhelmed and burnt out by the challenges we face, but working and participating with OzGREEN programs has given her the skills and the strength needed to explore her own path of sustainability. This has included an amazing 14 month overland trip from Australia to India (ie not flying) as an expression of her commitment to minimise her ecological footprint while expanding her horizons. Angela currently represents OzGREEN on the Australian Youth Climate Coalition’s National Council and Steering Committee and can be spotted at Powershift sporting the OzGREEN t-shirt and sparking interesting conversations.

Alana Smith

Alana began her involvement with World Vision through the 40 Hour Famine in early high school. In 2004, she was selected to go to India as one of World Vision’s Youth Ambassadors. Loving the network of passionate young people, as well as the opportunities for involvement offered by World Vision, Alana became the State Director of VGen Victoria before becoming the current National Director. Alana is in her fourth year of an Arts/Law degree and is looking forward to completing an internship with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in late 2007. In the future, Alana is keen to work in the area of human rights law and international development. Alana is also on the Steering Committee for the Australian Youth Forum and actively involved in the Australian Youth Climate Coalition.

Alistair Sproul

Dr Alistair Sproul is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering, UNSW. He specialises in teaching Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is also a consultant to industry where he provides expert advice in the optimisation of renewable energy systems. His current research interests are in the area of PV/energy systems for low energy buildings and highly efficient water pumping systems. Alistair has worked in the area of photovoltaic research and R&D since 1985 in a range of positions with various companies including BP Solar and Pacific Solar.

Alysia Bennett

Alysia Bennett is the National President of the Student Organised Network for Architecture (SONA). Through the promotion of and advocacy fo architecture students, SONA aims to develop a culture of leadership and community for the advancement of Australian Architecture.

Amanda McKenzie

Amanda is a Co-Director of the AYCC, always conjuring up new plans to challenge old ways of doing things. She recently graduated from an Arts/Law degree, completing a law honours thesis on emissions trading with first class honours, at Monash University. Amanda previously founded the Australian Climate Change Education Network. She regularly represents youth in discussions with government, business and non-government representatives, as well as being frequently asked to speak and publish on climate change issues. In 2007 Amanda attended the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali as a member of the Australian Government’s delegation as an official advisor and youth representative, as well as playing a key role organising the International Youth Climate Conference. Last year she led the AYCC delegation of 20 youth aged 16 – 16 to the UN negotiations in Poland.

Amy Stockwell

Amy Stockwell is the Head of Government Relations at World Vision Australia. World Vision is Australia’s largest charitable group. World Vision helps over 20 million people every year, thanks to the support of more than 400,000 Australians. World Vision provides relief in emergency situations and works on long-term community development projects. Together, these address the causes of poverty and help people move towards self-sufficiency.

Ana Tiwary

Ana Tiwary is Vice President of Women in Film and Television NSW and has established the successful and popular Media Mentorship for Women (MMW) program, which enables one to one relationships between industry professionals and emerging female filmmakers in order to create a supportive community and improve the status of women in the industry. Ana has travelled around the world making films to support numerous charity organisations, giving a voice to the powerless and telling untold stories. A passionate filmmaker, Ana has made a film about the Women’s Peace Movement in war-torn Liberia and the election of the World’s first Black Woman President. From interviewing World Leaders to filming in Bombay slums, from National Geographic Channel to ‘Bollywood’, Ana continues to work on some very challenging projects. Ana holds double masters in English Literature and Film Production from the American University, Washington DC.

Ann-Marie Rohlfs

Ann-Marie Rohlfs was Student Environment Collective Co-Convenor at the University of Technology Sydney and is actively involved in the Australian Student Environment Network, a network of University environment collectives around Australia.

Anna Keenan

Anna Keenan is a leading international youth climate activist. She is currently based in Bonn and Copenhagen where she coordinates youth advocay at the intersessional meetings of the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change. Anna is origionally from Brisbane where she organised the Students of Sustainability conference, lead the Queensland Youth Environment Council and worked for the Australian Conservation Foundation as a climate campaigner.

Anna Rose

Anna is one of the Co-Directors of the AYCC and her motto is “Those who say it can’t be done should get out of the way of those already doing it”. Anna graduated from Sydney Unversity in Arts/Law with first class honours in 2007. In 2005, she was National Environment Officer for the National Union of Students. Anna is a member of the Australia-US Leadership Dialogue and holds an Australian leadership Award from the Australia-Davos Connection. Visiting the US in 2007, she worked with the Energy Action Coalition on a similar event (also called Power Shift) in Washington DC, as well as the Obama campaign. She was a youth representative to the UN Climate Negotiations in Montreal in 2005, and to the Secretary-General’s special meeting on Climate Change in New York in 2007. A former editor of Sydney University’s student paper Honi Soit, Anna is also one of Crikey’s environment bloggers.

Ariel Salleh

Ariel Salleh, is a feminist writer and activist currently Honorary Associate in Political Economy in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney. Former Associate Professor in Social Inquiry at UWS, and co-editor of Capitalism Nature Socialism, her publications include, Ecofeminism as Politics; Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice; and articles spanning critical theory, political movement ideologies, environmental ethics, peoples science, and globalisation. She has worked on Aboriginal housing; co-convened the Movement Against Uranium Mining; helped found The Greens; worked on Earth Summit with Women’s Environment & Development Organization; campaigned on water catchments; and served as ecologist on the Australian government’s Gene Technology Ethics Committee. www.arielsalleh.net

Ben McNeil

Ben McNeil is an Australian academic. In 2007, he was chosen as an expert reviewer for the United Nations Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change 4th assessment report and was invited to present his research to the Prime Minister and cabinet at Parliament House in Canberra. He was also recently elected to represent young scientists in the Federation of Australian Science and Technological Societies.

Ben Namakin

Ben Namakin was born in 1980 and grew up on islands in the Pacific, living first in Kiribati and then moving in 1996 with his family to Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. He attended Ponape Agriculture & Trade School, the only vocational high school in Micronesia, and graduated with a Diploma in Agriculture and Marine Science in 2001. In 2002, the Conservation Society of Pohnpei hired Namakin as an Environmental Educator to run a pilot program, The Green Road, a mobile environmental awareness program focusing on Upland Watershed, Mangroves, Coral Reef, and Waste and Pollution. Namakin has taken footage showing sea level rise, coastal erosion, and other changes on island systems which could be the impact of climate change. His footage of the split of Deketik Island from sea flooding was shown by Greenpeace International along with other images of impacts of climate change around the world in a presentation during the United Nations 2005 Climate Change Conference COP11/MOP1 in Montreal, Canada.

Ben Margetts

Ben Margetts loves running campaigns – probably more than he love surfing. He has run strategy trainings for the past three years within the Australian Student Environment Network, National Union of Students, NSW Greens, AYCC and now the broader progressive sector of Australia. He is the current Chair of the AYCC Steering Committee, an associate of The Change Agency, and recently established a communications and strategy firm www.makebelieve.me with a mission to support NGO’s and progressive businesses to develop creative and intergrated campaigns.

Bernard Keane

Bernard Keane tried being an historian before moving to Canberra and becoming a Commonwealth public servant in the 1990s. After stints in transport policy and as a speechwriter he moved into communications policy, where he obtained extensive experience in the dark arts of Australian media regulation. An occasional blogger, he began contributing to Crikey in mid-2007. He is now Crikey’s Canberra correspondant.

Dr Bill Bellotti

Professor Bill Bellotti is an agronomist, farming systems scientist, and has published on the impact of climate change on crop production.  He currently holds the Vincent Fairfax Chair in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development at the University of Western Sydney.  “Eating is an agricultural act”, but modern supply chains have distanced the food consumer (you) from the food producer (farmer).  Reconnecting city consumers with the rural communities that supply their food has the potential to develop more resilient farming systems and healthier urban communities.  Bill is interested in research and education that reconnects environment, agriculture, food, and health.

Cara Bevington

Cara Bevington, Campaigner, Oxfam Australia. Cara works on Oxfam Australia’s climate justice campaign, with a particular focus on raising the voices of people most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, through this Cara has worked with the Global Gender and Climate Alliance (GCCA) and has completed their training course on gender and climate change. www.oxfam.org.au

Carolyn Grenville

Training Coordinator for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre in Sydney. PIAC is an independent, non-profit law and policy organisation that identifies public interest issues and works co-operatively with other organisations to advocate for individuals and groups affected.

Channon Goodwin

In December 2008, Channon accepted the lead role in managing WPC Group’s GreenSkills initiative focused on increasing opportunities for apprentices and trainees in environmental industries.Channon is excited to be involved with GreenSkills – a project that combines her passion for skills development and the environment. Channon believes in creating opportunities that allow trainees and emerging young professionals to truly enjoy their work while developing new skills and paving a path for a greener future! Outside of work, Channon enjoys spending time with her family, camping and raising awareness about the impact of climate change on our health.

Chloe Hanson-Boyd

Chloe received an access scholarship from the University of Melbourne and was the Cambodian Development Education Experience (CDEE) co-ordinator for Engineers Without Borders (EWB).

Declan Kuch

Declan Kuch is a cyclist and currently researching the sociology of carbon markets.

Deepa Gupta

Deepa is a co-founder of the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN), a movement aimed to mobilize youth across India into taking action against climate change. IYCN has seen growth from 3 to over 205,000 people within 4 months of its initiation. Her other work has involved being the Indian Coordinator for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition for the faith climate campaign, strongly engaging youth from Hindu, Christian and Islamic backgrounds.

Donna Jackson

Donna Jackson is a woman of Larrakia/Wulna descent. She worked with NT Parks and Wildlife for nine years as technician and ethno-ecological researcher. She has also worked for WWF, Larrakia Nation Aboriginal Corporation, the Northern Land Council (consultant), and lectured in NCRM at Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education and Charles Darwin University. She is co-author on a number of published botanical bulletins and other ethno-biological books dealing with Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK). Donna is an elected representative on the Larrakia Nation AC Governing Committee. She holds the Natural and Cultural Resource Management portfolio. She currently coordinates an independent NGO called the Top End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance (TEACA), with the support of ACF, the Poola Foundation, and the two Northern Territory environment centres.

Dr Donna Green

Dr Donna Green was recruited from the CSIRO to be a founding member of the University of New South Wales’ Climate Change Research Centre, where she works on energy policy and climate-change impacts. She was a contributing author to the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, and has won numerous awards for her writing and research. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, consulted for the United Nations Development Programme, and advised the Greater London Climate Change initiative.

Dr Judith Ajani

Judith is an economist, she has concentrated her research on building environmentally and economically coherent policy frames for the agricultural sector (notably wood production) recognising the cost-cutting nature of commodity production. Her findings are presented in ‘The Forest Wars’ (MUP 2007). SJudith is a strong advocate for communicating university research and analysis to enhance public policy debates.

Dr. Helen Caldicott

As an articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 35 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction.

Ed Coper

Ed Coper is the Campaigns Director for GetUp! Action for Australia. He has led GetUp’s campaigns on issues like the Gunns pulp mill and is a co-founder of the No Pulp Mill Alliance. Ed previously volunteered at the United Nations Youth Association.

Ed Boydell

Ed is an Honours student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. His interest in sustainability evolved as a teenager living in Fiji, as he witnessed some of the evolving environmental challenges that the developing country faced. At the ANU, he has studied some of the scientific, social
and policy dimensions of sustainability, with a particular focus on impacts and adaptation. His studies took him to UNFCCC COP13 in Bali, where he realised the importance of local governance in responding to climate change responses. He has also been involved with student-led campus sustainability initiatives, and worked as an intern at the Yale Office for Sustainability.

Ellen Sandell

Ellen Sandell is the Switched On Schools Coordinator for the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. In 2007 she was part of the first Australian Youth Delegation to the UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Bali, Indonesia, and she travelled to Poland for the UN meeting last December. She was previously the Environment Officer in the University of Melbourne Student Union, helping the University to significantly reduce its environmental impact. Ellen is the founder of the award-winning Leadership in Environmental Action Program, an innovative environmental leadership conference for high school students, held each year in September.

Emeretta Cross

Emeretta Cross was born on Ocean Island, an island in the central Pacific basin, next to the Republics of Kiribati and Tuvalu. She has been campaigining on the issue of climate refugees and the impact of climate change on the Pacific nations with Make Poverty History.

Emily Murray

Emily Murray is the Vice President (Education) of the ACT Branch of the United Nations Youth Association. Emily sits on the AYCC Steering Committee on behalf of UNYA Australia. UNYA Australia is a national, non-partisan, not-for-profit youth organisation run entirely for and by young people aged 15-25. UNYA has Divisions in every State and Territory of Australia, and a National Executive oversees the organisation and its aims: to educate and empower young people through engaging with the principles and aspirations of the United Nations.

Emily Wood

Emily Wood is Pacific Hydro’s Communications Manager. Pacific Hydro is one of the world’s leading renewable energy businesses. Pacific Hydro have more than 1,800MW of hydroelectric and wind farm projects at varying stages of development, construction and operation across Australia, the Asia-Pacific and Latin America including Chile.

Emma Herd

Emma was appointed to the role of Director, Emissions & Environment in Westpac Institutional Bank in 2007. Emma has been the Westpac representative on government and industry forums such as the Australian Business Leaders’ Roundtable on Climate Change (2006) and the Australian Business and Climate Group (2007). She continues to represents the bank in a number of public forums and play a key role in the Westpac Group approach to managing climate change risks and opportunities.

Erwin Jackson

With nearly 20 years practical experience in climate change policy and research, Erwin has developed and led many national and international programs aimed at reducing greenhouse pollution. This work has been undertaken in Australia, Europe, North and South America, the Pacific and Antarctica. He has represented non-governmental groups and advised government and business in national, regional and international fora, including being a non-governmental expert reviewer of the reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Erwin is currently the Director of Policy and Research at the Climate Institute.

Feyi Akindoyeni

Feyi Akindoyeni works from Kreab Gavin Anderson and has over 15 years experience as a market and social researcher, with extensive background in corporate and marketing strategy development across a range of sectors including ICT, infrastructure, health, environment and education. Feyi has expertise is online marketing and using social networks.

Freya, Alistair & Imogen Wadlow

Planet Patrol was set-up by siblings Imogen, Freya and Alastair to ‘educate, communicate, motivate and activate’ teens to participate, lead and take responsibility for the future of the planet and its communities.

Gabby Greyem

Gabby works at Greenpeace as their National Community Organiser. Greenpeace are an independent campaigning organisation that uses non-violent direct action to expose global environmental problems and to force solutions which are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace’s goal is to ensure the ability of the earth to nurture life in all its diversity.

Gabe Kavanagh

Gabe is currently working for the Australian Services Union and is the Vice president of Amnesty International and on the board of the NSW Rape Crisis Center. During her time at Sydney University Gabe was a leading activist, particularly focusing on womens rights issues.

Gabriel Anderson

Gabe has been involved in environmental and social change movements from an early age when he was taken along to forest blockades by his parents in a backpack. His upbringing on a community in the bush has given him a strong sense of connection with the natural environment. He established his own native nursery and at age 14 founded a youth environment group which worked on a range of campaigns from tree planting and restoration to awareness raising. In particular running two all-youth environmental education camps – by youth, for youth. After High School Gabe’s passion for the environment led him to the Australian National University in Canberra where he studied Resource and Environmental Management from 1998 to 2001. In 2003 Gabe began working with OzGREEN. Most recently this has involved coordinating OzGREEN headline programs in towns and regional areas in the Northern Territory, South Australia, Western NSW and Tasmania. Gabe is now based in Newcastle and is OzGREEN facilitator for the Hunter Valley Great Eastern Ranges Initiative – an exciting biodiversity corridor project which aims to connect the Snowy Mountains to the Atherton tablelands providing a corridor for species movement and climate change resilience. Gabe will be a lead facilitator at the Powershift Youth LEAD.

Gemma Tillack

Gemma is the Tasmanian Campaigner for the Wilderness Society.

Guy Rundle

Guy Rundle is currently Crikey’s global correspondent-at-large. Born in Melbourne, he was a co-founding editor of Arena Magazine and has worked with Arena publishing group for twenty years. A frequent contributor to The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Spiked and many other publications, his books include The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction and half of The Happy Phrase (with Shane Moloney). He has written for and produced a wide variety of TV programs, and co-devised Comedy Inc, Shark Bay and worse. He has written three hit stage shows with and for Max Gilles, with fourth, Godzone, to premiere in 2009. At the time of writing he lives in New York.

Harriet Riley

Harriet Riley is an honours student at the ANU, studying International Relations and Ecology. She has been published in Diplomat and The Guardian (UK). She attended the Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2009.

Jack Fuller

Jack has worked as a neuroscience tutor at Trinity College, Melbourne, where he co-founded the Melbourne Cognitive Science Forum. Before joining Per Capita he led a group contributing to Melbourne City Council’s ‘Future Melbourne’ plan, and travelled to Poland as an Australian Youth Delegate to the UN climate negotiations. He has lived and worked in Timor Leste, in Germany, and at the Centre for Sustainability Leadership in Melbourne. Jack has a Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience) from the University of Melbourne, and is studying a Certificate of Global Issues and a Certificate IV in Business (Governance). He grew up in Brisbane.

James Arvanitakis

James Arvanitakis is a lecturer in the Humanities at the University of Western Sydney and is a member of the University’s Centre for Cultural Research. James has worked as a human rights activist throughout the Pacific, Indonesia and Europe. He is currently working with the Whitlam Institute looking at issues confronting Australia’s democracy. A regular media commentator, James’ latest book, Contemporary Society: A Sociological Analysis of Everyday Life, is an Australian sociology textbook and was recently launched with Oxford University Press. A research fellow at the Centre for Policy Development, James has worked extensively with a number of non-government organisations, including Oxfam Australia’s International Youth Partnerships and Youth Engagement Program, Oxfam Hong Kong, as well as Aid/Watch.

Jarra Hicks

Jarra is the former co-convenor of the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN) having previously been campus environment officer and welfare officer at the University of Newcastle Student Association where she helped run a successful campaign to green the university.

Jarra McGrath

Jarra has been creating change through design for eight years.In 2001, he moved from Sydney to Canada to join pioneering web 2.0 youth social network TakingITGlobal.org as Director of Visual Innovation. Passionate about film, he returned to Australia in 2005 to work for Warner Bros. marketing – filming and editing on the set of Superman Returns, before joining GetUp.org.au as Creative Director. At GetUp, Jarra has designed branding for tens of campaigns, hundreds of print pieces, and several full-page newspaper advertisements.

Jason Kimberley

Cool Melbourne founder Jason Kimberley is a photographer and adventurer with a passion for life and nature. With a background as a retailer and restaurateur, Kimberley had his eco-epiphany on an expedition to Antarctica in 2005. “It is the last piece of pristine wilderness on our planet. Our challenge is to preserve it,” he says. Kimberley is determined to make environmental change a reality. “We want to plan a future that can be embraced, not feared,” he says.

Jill Finnane

Jill is the Coordinator of the Pacific Calling Partnership at the Edmund Rice Centre. The Edmund Rice Centre is involved in a range of projects and activities across the four areas of its operation in research, community education, advocacy and networking focussing on Indigeneous Australians and refugees and asylum seekers. You could say that the Edmund Rice Centre works with both the first and the last Australians.

Joe Karten

Joe works at the Green Building Council of Australia. He comes from rainy Portland, Oregon and has a Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Following college, he spent 9 months on a fellowship research of sustainable buildings in Mexico and Western Europe.

John Hepburn

John worked as a mechanical engineer making components for the coal, oil and nuclear industries before becoming an environmental activist in the mid 1990’s. He currently co-ordinates the Greenpeace Australia Pacific climate change campaigning.

Kandi Mossett

Kandi is on the Steering Committee of the Energy Action Coalition (USA). She is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nations located on the Fort Berthold Reservation within the state of North Dakota. She graduated from the University of North Dakotas Earth Systems Science and Policy Program in December of 2006 and now holds a Masters of Environmental Management. She began working for the Indigenous Environmental Network as the Tribal Campus Climate Challenge (TCCC) Organizer in February of 2007. The TCCC is a project slated to involve more than 40 Tribal Colleges across Canada and the U.S. The goal of the program is to leverage the power of young indigenous people to organize on Tribal college campuses and high schools in order to win Clean Energy policies at their schools.

Kathryn McCabe

Kathryn is a program coordinator and facilitator with OzGREEN. She is passionate about living lightly and willing to give all sorts of funky things a go to bring down her personal footprint, from yoga to drama to free-cycling. Kathryn found her calling as a facilitator of sustainabile change through a Masters degree in Social Ecology and it was here that she first came across OzGREEN and their programs. After participating in a Youth LEAD workshop, Kathryn realised that for many years she had been painstakngly searching for ways to contribute something positive to the many social and environmental issues she was concerned about but only ever ending up feeling more overwhelmed and hopeless than before. Participating and working with OzGREEN has given her the tools to clarify exactly how she can bring the best to the situation as she sees it, and more often than not that involves a killer mix of her native Irish humour, dedicated passion and heart warming empathy. Kathryn will be a lead facilitator at the Powershift Youth LEAD.

Katie Patrick

Katie Patrick is one of Australia’s leading environmental entrepreneurs. Katie created Greenpages Australia, the country’s first sustainable directory and launched the first edition in late 2006. Greenpages now has offices both in Sydney and Melbourne, with a dedicated expert team of 20 to support the ethically profit business.

Kirsty Ruddock

Kirsty is the Principal Solicitor at the Environmental Defender’s Office (NSW) in Australia. The EDO is a community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law. During her time at EDO-North Queensland she was involved in a number of judicial review and merits review cases including the first climate change case brought under the EPBC Act on behalf of Wildlife Whitsunday. She also taught Environmental Law to science students at James Cook University in Cairns.

Leanne Minshull

Leanne Minshull is the Director of Strategy and Liaison for Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Australian Greens. She has worked with many environment organisations including The Wilderness Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation.

Lilian McCombs

Lilian is a creative communicator and writer with a distinguished track record in online political and issue-based communications. She is tremendously talented at re-framing debates around shared values, crafting messages that appeal to both the head and the heart – and when needed, motivating large numbers of people to act. Lily has been the Campaigns Director for GetUp.org.au in the lead up to the election in 2007, worked with CHOICE – Australia’s largest consumer association and recently founded Make Believe – a progressive communications consultancy.

Louise Hand

As Australia’s Ambassador for Climate Change, Louise is the lead Australian negotiator within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the head of the International Division of the Department of Climate Change. Most recently Minister and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, Ms Hand has previously served in senior positions in DFAT in Canberra and overseas, including as Australian Ambassador to Cambodia.

Louise Morris

Louise Morris grew up in a mining town in the north west of Western Australia. She started her involvement with environmental activism when she joined the WA Jabiluka Action Group. From 1998 to 2001 Louise was deeply involved with the Western Australia forest campaign, providing training in peaceful activism to campaigners, and encouraging public participation in and support for the forest blockades. Late last year Louise was named as one of 20 targets in the lawsuit brought by timber giant Gunns Ltd against environmental activists in Tasmania.Louise has set up a webpage and database for other forest activists and she has involved herself in other Tasmanian campaigns including in the Tarkine and Weld Valley. She is completing a double degree in Journalism and Politics and writes for many publications in Australia and overseas, broadcasts on community radio and provides media training to grassroots community groups.

Lourdes Salinas

Lourdes is from the Green Buildings Council in Mexico and recently moved to Australia. She currently works at Advanced Environmental and has a passion for green buildings.

Margaret Blakers

Margaret Blakers is co-founder of the Victorian Greens, organiser of the Global Greens 2001 conference and former adviser to Senator Bob Brown. She is currently developing the Green Institute.

Mark Diesendorf

Dr Mark Diesendorf is based at the Institute of Environmental Studies, UNSW. He is author of about 80 scholarly papers and the book Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy.

Maryella Hatfield

Maryella Hatfield is the Director and Producer of The Future Makers Documentary. She is a Media Lecturer at the University of Western Sydney.

The Hon Dr Meredith Burgmann

The Hon Dr Meredith Burgmann studied at the University of Sydney in the sixties and seventies and was involved in political activity against the Vietnam War and Apartheid. She was also actively involved in the beginnings of the Women’s movement and the early Environment movement. She was one of the leaders of the Stop the Springboks Campaign in 1971.

Mitch

Mitch is from the Eastern Aranda and Luritja clans around Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Grown up white, she worked as a cleaner, cook and jillaroo, then furthered her education. The more she got educated, the more she became politically aware of what it really meant to be black in Australia. She became involved in anti nuclear campaigns when the Howard government proposed a radioactive waste dump at Harts Range Department of Defense base, near her homeland about 160km NE of Alice Springs. I am currently studying a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at Batchelor Institute and continue to work hard to oppose the radioactive waste dump on my country and also the push for increased uranium exploration and mining all across Central Australia.

Nadine Smith

Nadine is the Project Coordinator of the Creative People’s Collective in Lismore. She founded the Crankfest hip hop festival. Since then the CPC has organised other hip hop and rap events in Lismore and recently held the second annual Crankfest in Casino.

Nat Wasley

Nat Wasley is an activist with the Beyond Nuclear Initiative and No Waste Alliance in Alice Springs. In working toward a nuclear free future she has engaged in direct action blockades, community education and capacity building, lobbying and outreach, including a 4500km “International Peace Pilgrimage” walk from Olympic Dam uranium mine in Australia to Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.In 2005, after walking to New York from the Y-12 weapons manufacturing plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, I was chosen by a youth caucus at the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty Review conference to present the international youth speech. Nat coordinates the Beyond Nuclear Initiative project which focuses on the interface between the nuclear industry and Indigenous people.

Nathan Elvery

Nathan Elvery founded a climate action group at his high-school, and attended the AYCC/ASEN “Switched On” Conference in 2007. He travelled to Bali in December 2007 as part of the Australian Youth Delegation to the UN Conference on Climate Change, where he contributed to the founding of a Global Youth Climate Coalition. Nathan believes strongly in the need for a national – high school led – youth climate movement. He is the current DIrector of the AYCC’s Youth Climate Leadership Program.

Nic Moodie

Nic Moodie is from the Total Environment Centre, having previously organised events for Amnesty International and the Peats Ridge festival. The TEC have been campaigning for environment protection in the city and country, changing government policy, advising the community and challenging business since 1972.

Nick Moraitis

Nick Moraitis has worked at the cutting edge of social change communication strategy for ten years – in New York, Toronto, London and Sydney. He has held positions as Online and Outreach Director at progressive campaigning organization GetUp!, Public Engagement Manager for Greenpeace Australia Pacific, Leader of International Youth Strategy Development at Amnesty International and Strategy and Partnership Coordinator for TakingITGlobal.org in 2001. He has recently founded a new progessive communications consultancy – Make Believe.

Nicky Ison

Nicky Ison joined the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney in 2008 as a research consultant with a focus on energy and climate change. Prior to joining ISF Nicky was the National Convenor for the Australian Student Environment Network and has five years of experience in the student and community climate sector as an advocate, facilitator and organiser.

Nicole Kueper

Nicole is a solar cell scientist studying her PhD at UNSW who has designed and patented a cheap, simple and innovative photovoltaic device that can be manufactured without costly equipment or high temperature processes, offering the hope of affordable electricity to over two billion people worldwide. She is last year’s winner of the People’s Choice Eureka Prize award.

Paul Connor

Paul Connor is a Melbourne university student and is Coordinator of Climate Justice Fast.

Paul Gilding

Paul Gilding has been a union organiser, a member of the armed forces, the head of Greenpeace International and an adviser to some of the world’s leading corporations on responding to climate change. He was founding CEO of Easy Being Green, a business devoted to making homes more energy and water efficient, and also led Sydney-based sustainability consultancy Ecos Corporation.

Peter Phibbs

Peter is a social economist/planner with a special interest in the potential of economic tools to generate sustainable outcomes and the need to balance economic and social concerns in urban affairs. After teaching urban planning at the University of Sydney for twenty years he has taken up a position as in the new Urban Research Centre at UWS as the Co-ordinator of Academic Programs. He is a specialist in economic impact assessment and his latest research has been in the area of affordable housing. He has a BA (Hons) and MSc and a PhD from the University of NSW.

Phil Sutton

Philip Sutton is Convener of the Greenleap Strategic Institute (a non-profit environmental strategy think tank and advisory organisation promoting the very rapid achievement of global and local ecological sustainability), Assistant-Convenor of the Climate Emergency Network, co-founder of Safe Climate Australia and past-President of the Sustainable Living Foundation and the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics. Most recently Philip co-authored “Climate Code Red”, which puts forward a case for emergency action on climate change. Philip was also the architect of the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act passed in Victoria in 1988.

Rachel Crossman

Rachel Crossman, member of the Young UNIFEM National Executive. Rachel has a Bachelor of Arts (Gender Studies, Sociology) and is currently completing an Honours year in Gender Studies, researching violence against women and masculinities. Rachel is interested in Feminist theory and its practical application, and in educating young women and men on the realities of gender inequality domestically and internationally. Rachel volunteers with the White Ribbon Foundation and has previously volunteered with St Judes, a charity-based school in Tanzania.

Rathana Chea

Rathana Chea currently works at the Sydney Alliance, a broad based citizens coalition building bridges between community organisations, unions and religious institutions working towards building a fair and just Sydney. He was born in a refugee camp on the border of Thailand and Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge genocide. Having arrived in Australia in 1982, Rathana has now worked in a number of roles, including research, advocacy, policy development, campaign, organising and community development, across a broad range of organisations including Diversity Health Institute, Ethnic Communities’ Council NSW and Finance Sector Union.

Rebecca Bear-Wingfield

Rebecca is a Senior Kokatha cultural woman, member and board member of the Kokatha Women’s Council, the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta and secretary of the Kokatha Mula Nations Land Council. Rebecca is an Arabunna woman and Keeper of Lake Eyre, and have strong links to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. She is co-chair of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance. She has been a community human rights worker for 25 years and attended the first world indigenous summit on uranium, coordinated by the Navajo Nation and Seventh Generation Fund and the Nuclear Free Futures Award.

Sam McClean

Sam is currently a campaiger at GetUp! He is a leading Australian innovator in campaign strategy, field organising and online actions. Sam has previsouly worked with the United Nations Youth Association and is based in Sydney.

Sara Haghdoosti

A 22 year old Sydney University student, about to begin her Honours in English Literature, Sara is active in student activities within the University as well as in extra-curricular organising. On Campus, Sara has participated in the University of Sydney Debating Society and SRC as well as running for Student Senator in 2008. Having always been passionate about issues of social justice, and particularly women’s rights, Sara has been making great strides within the women’s movement. Sara was on the organising committee for ‘Reclaim the Night’ protests against sexual violence in 2007-2008, is an active member of UNIFEM and is in the organising collective for International Women’s Day 2009. She also is actively involved in Immigrant Women’s Speakout in NSW, helping women overcome common obstacles when they first arrive in Australia.

Sasha Hunt

Sasha got involved with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition as a Lismore High School student, and deferred University for a year to help established the “Youth Environment Society” (YES) in Lismore and volunteer with the AYCC on Power Shift recruitment and volunteer management. She was a keynote speaker at last year’s Sydney Walk Against Warming. At the end of the year Sasha will travel to Madagascar to assist with community housing projects.

Senator Christine Milne

As a Greens Senator from Tasmania, Christine Milne was elected in 2004. Prior to entering politics she taught English, History and Social Science. She was appointed to the United Nations Global Roll 500 of Honour in 1990 for her conservation work, and The Bulletin named her one of Australia’s Smart 100 in 2003. She was arrested and jailed during the campaign to save the Franklin River in 1983. In 1993 she became the first woman to lead a political party in Tasmania, and led the Tasmanian Greens for five years through a period of significant reform in the areas of gun control, same sex relationships and economic reform, among other things.

Shaun Edwards

Shaun Edwards – Kalk is known to be one of the most profound of Kokoberrin’s many artists. He was born in Mareeba in 1975. He grew up in Cairns and completed schooling and tertiary art studies in Cairns. He first returned to he’s homeland in 1992, after living a early life not knowing that while he was a different colour to the other kids, that he actually came from a rich cultural background that still was mostly intact. Shaun is Director Indigenous Environment Foundation.

Simon Moss

Simon Moss first joined Oaktree as a volunteer in Feburary 2004, He has traveled extensively with Oaktree, including a study tour to Ghana and South Africa in 2005, and co-leading the Our Generations Challenge initiative to Cambodia and Thailand in 2006, and Rwanda and Malawi in 2007. When Simon is not hanging out at such events as the Clinton Global Initiative or a World Economic Forum, he is busy coodinating the Global Poverty Project, an initiative to create a slideshow presentation and film that will communicate the realities of extreme poverty and what can be done about it by everyday people around the world.

Simon Sheikh

Simon Sheikh is National Director of the community advocacy group GetUp! GetUp is an independent, grass-roots community advocacy organisation giving everyday Australians opportunities to get involved and hold politicians accountable on important issues. Whether it is sending an email to a member of parliament, engaging with the media, attending an event or helping to get a television ad on the air, GetUp members take targeted, coordinated and strategic action.

Steve Phillips

Steve is a member of Rising Tide Newcastle and lives in the biggest coal export port in the world. Rising Tide are a grassroots Newcastle group taking action against the causes of anthropogenic climate change. Rising Tide are focused on bringing about an equitable, just, effective, and sustainable solutions to the climate crisis and are committed to the principals of Non-violent Direct Action.

Sue Lennox

Oz GREEN Co-Founder Sue Lennox is recognised as a leading social entrepreneur in Australia and brings over 30 years of experience and professional qualifications in environmental education, health promotion, social enterprise and youth empowerment gained on the ground in urban and rural settings in Australia and Internationally in India, East Timor and Papua New Guinea. Sue and her husband Col committed everything to their vision of inspiring and enabling people to work for environmental change. They gave up their jobs as teachers, sold their home and began the work of setting up OzGREEN as two volunteers working out of a borrowed garage in 1992. Since then OzGREEN has engaged over 1,000 schools and businesses in their environmental learning and leadership programs. Sue is an Australia Day Ambassador and a member of the Centre for Social Impact Advisory Council. Her work has been recognised through UN Media Peace Awards, Environmental Educator of the Year Award and she was named as one of Sydney’s Top 100 Most Influential People by The Sydney Magazine.

Steve Shallhorn

Steve Shallhorn took up the post of Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific in November 2005, having served two years as Executive Director of Greenpeace Japan prior to coming to Sydney. He has also worked for Greenpeace in Washington, London and Toronto (his home town), and has taken part in Greenpeace actions all over the world. Steve holds two degrees from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario: a BA in History and a BA in Economics.

Steven Ross

Steven Ross is a Wamba Wamba man from Deniliquin in southern NSW. He also has cultural and familial connections to the Muthi Muthi and Wiradjuri Nations. Steven has an Honours Degree in Government and Public Administration from the University of Sydney in 2000. Steven has worked for the NSW Cabinet Office, NSW Department of Aboriginal Affairs and NSW Attorney Generals Dept and is now the Coordinator of the Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN), a confederation of Indigenous Nations or traditional owners in the lower southern part of the Murray Darling Basin.

Tim Goodwin

Tim Goodwin is a member of the National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia and is passionate about Indigenous youth leadership. He represented Australia at the United Nations General Assembly on Children. Goodwin attended the fifth World Indigenous Youth Conference in 1998, was a member of the International Youth Parliament 2000, and of the National Indigenous Youth Leadership Group from 2001-2002. He was a member of the Australian Divisions of General Practice’s Youth Alliance, and a participant in the Foundation for Young Australians’ Indigenous 2003 Leadership Intensive.

Trish Harrup

Trish Harrup is an experienced campaigner for climate change. She has worked for Greenpeace Australia Pacific as senior climate and energy campaigner and as Director of the ACT Conservation Council.

Virginia Young

Virginia is among Australia’s leading forests and climate campaigners, and is a strong voice advocating the huge potential of Australia’s native forests to reduce greenhouse gas emission. She is currently the National Strategic Campaign Coordinator for the Wilderness Society. Virginia has a diverse background which includes 12 years in the Federal Treasury (including managing the mining section of the Foreign Investment Review Board). She was awarded the Wild magazine “Environmentalist of the Year” in 2001.

Wenny Theresia

Wendy Theresia has had extensive involvement in the climate movement. In 2005, she was the Environment Officer for the National Union of Students (NSW Office), before taking up roles with the Nature Conservation Council of NSW (Climate Movement Co-Ordinator), ASEN (Switched On Coordinator) and the Climate Movement. She has spoken at several events, including the Climate Change Social Change Conference where she spoke against nuclear power as a solution to climate change.

Will Mudford

Will Mudford is a youth ambassador for Chilout (Children out of Detention), where he has been actively involved in protesting against the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers by the Australian government. Will is also actively involved in the Union movement.

Heaven Muecke

Heaven Muecke has been involved in the Film, TV and Theatre industries for over 15 years. She has earned a 1st class honors degree in Film & Theatre Studies and a Certificate IV in Film & TV Production. Heaven has crewed on over 50 stage & screen productions including roles as Producer, Director, Production Manager, DOP, Editor & 1st AD, with exposure to dramas, comedies, commercials, vox pops, current affairs, short documentaries and TV series. She has sound knowledge of the Australian and international film and TV industries. Over the years Heaven has also conducted stage acting and movement workshops for young people and greatly encourages youth to dream big. Heaven runs her own small production company and is the Vice President of WIFT NSW and the Mentorship Coordinator of WIFT’s Media Mentorship for Women (MMW).

Mitra Gusheh

Mitra Gusheh is an author, activist and the youth engagement program coordinator for Oxfam Australia. She was previously the director of the design agency Ilk Media and taught at the School of Design, University of Technology, Sydney. Prior to her design focus, she worked across a number of organisations within the community sector. Her portfolio of projects includes a print-based zine project in the Aboriginal community of Aurukun, a photography project with homeless children in Sri Lanka and a web-based project with community media agencies in Nepal.