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Guardians Africa

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Our Team
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Walter Maina

Treasurer​

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Walter is a teacher and sound engineer based in Nairobi

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Josephine Konga

Project Partner​

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Josephine is a land defender, woman rights defender and environmentalist from the Endorois indigenous people of Lake Bogoria, Kenya.​​​

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Geoffrey Kerosi

Co-Director Guardians Africa

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Geoffrey is a human rights defender from Nairobi, Kenya.​​​

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Joseph Towett

Chairman, Guardians Africa​

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Joseph  is a historic leader and land defender of the indigenous Ogiek people of Mau Forest in Nakuru, Kenya.​​​

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Leonard Mindore

Co-Director, Guardians Africa​

Leonard is an indigenous land rights defender, Director of Programme for the Heritage of Ogiek and Mother Earth (PROHOME). 

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Kamilu Hassan Hamza

Co-director Guardians Africa, Board of trustees Guardians Worldwide

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Kamilu is an oral historian of the indigenous Maguzawa or Hausa animists and the founder and director of Al Fitra academy in Kano, Nigeria.

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Guardians UK

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Nicolas Salazar Sutil

Founder and Director of Guardians Worldwide, Board of trustees 

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Nicolas is a Chilean and British environmentalist, activist and campaigner.

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Mercy Ette

Board of Trustees

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Mercy is a UK and Nigerian scholar specialising in media, conflict and women's rights. She is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle.

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Holly Marsden

Volunteer Researcher

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Isabella Harden

Volunteer Researcher

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Guardians Brazil

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Adeildo Shawadawa

Course facilitator​

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Adeildo is a member of Organização dos Povos Indígenas do Rio Juruá. He is an ayahuasca practitioner and spiritual leader of the Shawadawa people of Acre State 

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Tawana Kariri-Xoco

Board of Trustees

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Tawana is the cultural and spiritual leader of the Kariri-Xoco Fulkaxo people of Alagoas, and one of the main driving forces of the Reserva Ecologica Fulkaxo project, a referorestation of Atlantic Forest in Sergipe, Brazil. 

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Lucimar Prata

Volunteer Grants Developer​

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Lucimar is a human rights activist and lawyer. She is the cofounder of the brazilian law firm Prata & Lacerda Law Firm and an activist for indigenous rights and riverside communities in the Amazon.

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