Guardians Worldwide
Our Team
Pietra Martin-Handfest
Youth engagement volunteer​​
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Pietra is a youth activist, founder and director of Coletivo Mangrovie, based in Italy.​​​
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Leonard Mindore
Board of Trustees​
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Leonard is an Ogiek community leader and land defender, director of PRO-HOME.
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Dr Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Executive Director
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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
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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
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Lucimar Prata
Legal Officer​
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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.
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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.
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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
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Tawana Kariri Xoco Fulkaxo
Director, Board of Trustees
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Tawana is a leader of the Fulkaxo people of Alagoas, and a driving force behind the Reserva Ecologica Fulkaxo forest restoration programme.
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Bob Jacques
Project Partner, Guardians UK
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Bob is a soil scientist, former Researcher at the University of Aberystwyth and Guardian of Pencoedtop, a 9 hectare site in Ceredigion, Wales
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Lee Walther
Director, Guardians UK​
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Lee is a Ranger for the National Trust, and guardian of Old Beard's Wood a 4-acre native woodland in West Sussex.
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Guardians Worldwide is an international non-profit organisation. We are registered as:
Associaçao Guardians Worldwide, Portugal (NIPC: 518596737)
GWW Africa Ltd, Nigeria (Reg No: 8272797)
Guardians UK (Charity Commission of England and Wales, Charity Number 1214169)​​​​
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​Guardians Worldwide
Reserva Florestal Portelas
Caminho das Portelas Predio 394
Penamacor
6080-901
Portugal
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