Guardians Africa
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
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.
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.
Holly Marsden
Volunteer Researcher
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Isabella Harden
Volunteer Researcher
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Guardians Brazil
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
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.
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.