Guardians Worldwide
Our Team
Pietra Martin-Handfest
Youth engagement volunteer
Pietra is a youth activist, founder and director of Coletivo Mangrovie, based in Italy.
Leonard Mindore
Board of Trustees
Leonard is an Ogiek community leader and land defender, director of PRO-HOME.
Dr Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Executive Director
Nicolas is a Chilean and British environmentalist and changemaker, Guest Lecturer in Ethics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Dr Mercy Ette
Chair, Board of Trustees
Mercy is a British and Nigerian scholar specialising in media, conflict and women's rights. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle.
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Dr Maria Rovisco
Board of Trustees
Maria is a Portuguese social scientist based in the UK. She is Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Leeds
Lucimar Prata
Legal Officer
Lucimar is a human rights activist and lawyer. She is the cofounder of the law firm Prata & Lacerda Advogadas based in Manaus, Brazilian Amazon.
Debora Lacerda
Legal Officer
Deborah is a lawyer and human rights defender based in Manaus, Brazil, and co-founder of the Prata & Lacerda firm.
Cynthia Achieng
Legal Intern
Cynthia is a human rights lawyer from Kenya, and student at Syracuse College of Law, US.
Mihaela Cojocaru
Kamilu Hassan Hamza
Director, GWW Africa
Kamilu is an oral historian of the Maguzawa people, educator and entrepeneur, founder and director of GWW-Africa.
Project Development and Fundraising
Mihaela is a fundraiser and researcher with roots in development studies, interested in rethinking systems. She is from the Moldova-Ukraine border, now based in Portugal.
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Dr Joana Cruz
Associate Researcher (Education)
Joana is an outdoor education specialist based at the University of Porto
Tawana Kariri Xoco Fulkaxo
Director, Board of Trustees
Tawana is a leader of the Fulkaxo people of Alagoas, and a driving force behind the Reserva Ecologica Fulkaxo forest restoration programme.
Bob Jacques
Project Partner, Guardians UK
Bob is a soil scientist, former Researcher at the University of Aberystwyth and Guardian of Pencoedtop, a 9 hectare site in Ceredigion, Wales
Lee Walther
Director, Guardians UK
Lee is a Ranger for the National Trust, and guardian of Old Beard's Wood a 4-acre native woodland in West Sussex.
Guardians Worldwide is an international non-profit organisation.
Guardians UK CIO is a Registered Charity (Charity Commission Number 1214169)
Associaçao Guardians Worldwide is a Registered non-profit in Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)
GWW Africa Ltd is a registered PLC in Nigeria (Reg No: 8272797)
Guardians UK CIO
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London
SE21 7LH
UK
Guardians Worldwide
Reserva Florestal Portelas
Caminho das Portelas Predio 394
Penamacor
6080-901
Portugal
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