Contributors

Isaias Hernandez is an environmental educator and content creator from Los Angeles, and the founder of the Queer Brown Vegan media platform. Isaias grew up in a community that faced environmental racism and his experiences led him to believe that everyone should learn about the environment through an intersectional lens. He’s spent the last 4 years creating environmental education for digital mediums to help teach anyone, and everyone, about intersectional environmentalism in an accessible way. His authentic storytelling and informative blogs, videos, and graphics have captured the attention of organizations such as Vogue, Harvard, The White House, and earned him an audience of over 100,000 on Instagram.

Isaias’s work has been published and referenced by numerous media organizations, thought leaders, businesses, and nonprofits. He’s helped to elevate impact campaigns, bring awareness to current events, highlight meaningful research, and educate the next generation on climate issues, all while maintaining a recognizable and appreciated vulnerability that centers his own humanity and intersecting identities. Whether Isaias is communicating the importance of queer ecology, or drawing attention to the connections between racial and environmental justice, his work has helped expand what it means to be an educator and helped transform the climate movement.

JM has a 20 years Management Consulting experience he has been involved in multiple environmental initiatives for Engineering, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Retail and Consumer Goods clients. I has always been passionate about environmental issues and has been spearheading media industry to bring climate change action at the top of the priorities.

Jillian Gibbs is a seasoned marketing production consultant, author, award-winning CEO, renowned speaker, and supporter of sustainable production and women in leadership. With over 30 years of experience, she has worked with top brands, guiding their creative production efforts, and helping them achieve impactful results.Gibbs is the founder and CEO of Advertising Production Resources, a global advisory company specializing in production investment management. She is a frequent contributor to industry publications and a trusted advisor to marketing professionals and industry associations worldwide.

Joel Bach is the Founder and Executive Director of The YEARS Project, the premiere digital media organization for the climate movement. He oversees the creative direction of the organization, manages the executive team, sets strategy and leads fundraising efforts. He is also the Executive Director and Publisher of INSIDE THE MOVEMENT, the weekly action toolkit for the climate movement.

Joel was the creator and series director of YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, the Emmy Award winning TV series on climate change. The series was executive produced by James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and the late Jerry Weintraub and featured an ensemble cast of A-list celebrities and journalists who traveled the globe to tell the story of climate change. The Daily Koz described YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY as: “The most important television series ever.”

Additionally, Joel has overseen the production of hundreds of short-form climate videos. Those videos have garnered over ONE BILLION views online. The YEARS Project has worked with more than a thousand individuals in the climate space and has produced digital content for practically every well-known climate organization. The Guardian calls The YEARS Project: “”The most important multimedia climate change communication endeavor in history.”””

Johnny joined ClientEarth’s London office in October 2020.  His work focuses on exploring and implementing legal strategies to mainstream climate-related risk and to foster accountability for the impacts of climate change. Before joining ClientEarth, Johnny worked at the international law firm Clifford Chance for nine years, specialising in international and high value commercial and financial disputes and in international human rights law.  He has also worked for human rights strategic litigation groups, and has a particular interest in social corporate responsibility and accountability.

A climate campaigner for 15 years, prior to joining GSCC, João was head of campaigns at Purpose, where he started the agency’s Brazil and India offices. Other past roles include campaigning for Greenpeace Brazil, International and US; leading the Amazonas State Climate Change Center in Brazil and being an underwater and extreme sports video producer. João has led or supported coalitions and cultural campaigns and creative interventions in Brazil, India, Mexico, Argentina, Canada, Germany, France and the US, working with a wide array of stakeholders, as indigenous peoples, health advocates, filmmakers, economists, celebrities, business, politicians, comedians and many in the climate movement. João hold  a biological sciences degree from the University of São Paulo.

Juan Carlos Gómez de la Torre is one of the most influential creatives in Latin America. He began a precocious and remarkable career in 1980. When he was an 18-year-old intern, he created the most remembered TV campaign of the year in Peru. Eight years later, he was already the interim ECD (Executive Creative Director) of JWT in Lima. After training that took him to Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, he was transferred as Creative Director to JWT Central America, where he began a significant harvest of international awards. Following a successful stint at JWT Chile between 1991 and 1993, he was hired by Joe De Deo to lead the creative team at Y&R Lima. In 1999, he founded Leo Burnett Lima, where he assumed the creative direction and led a true advertising revolution in Peru. During this decade, he won Gold awards at every festival around the world without exception, including the only gold Lion that his country has in Film. Under his leadership, Leo Burnett Lima was chosen as the world’s best agency within the network and ranked in the top 10 in all of Latin America. It was during this time that Gómez de la Torre created ‘Magia’ for Ponle Corazón, the most awarded spot in the history of Peruvian advertising.

Karen Land Short is a creative leader and leading sustainability voice with two decades of experience building influential brands through purpose-driven creativity and innovation. She’s the Global Executive Creative Director for Accenture Song’s Sustainability Studio, whose mission is to make sustainability relevant and actionable for everyone. She’s been named to Adweek Creative 100 twice and Business Insider’s Most Creative Women in Advertising. Her campaigns have been honored by the United Nations, ranked in best work of the decade lists, and acknowledged by top award shows. She previously spent ten years at Droga5, recently named both Adweek and AdAge’s Agency of the Decade.

For over 40 years, Kumi Naidoo has been a voice amongst many for social, economic and environmental justice. From his humble township upbringing in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, to his work as an anti-Apartheid activist, to his leadership of international NGOs, Kumi has remained rooted in Martin Luther King’s Creative Maladjustment principles – refusing to normalize inequality and devoting himself to exposing injustice.

Kwame is a creative executive and entrepreneur whose passion for innovation fueled award-winning global work for brands including Mailchimp, Delta Air Lines, Chobani, P&G, and Uniqlo. He was included in Adweek’s Creative 100 list in 2022, Ad Age’s 40 Under 40 list in 2020, Crain’s New York list of Notable Black Leaders in 2021, and inducted into the American Advertising Federation’s Hall of Achievement in 2019. Kwame serves on the board of trustees for D&AD and the board of directors for SATURDAY MORNING, a nonprofit he cofounded in 2016 to shift perception on racial bias and injustice.

Laura McGorman is the Director the Data for Good Program at Meta. Prior to joining Meta, Laura held positions during the Obama Administration at the US Department of Commerce, Opower, the World Bank and USAID. She has a BA from Columbia University and a Masters in Development Economics from Harvard.

Leah Thomas is an intersectional environmental activist and eco-communicator based in Southern California. She’s passionate about advocating for and exploring the relationship between social justice and environmentalism. You could say she’s tryna make the world a little more equal for everyone and a little nicer to our home planet. Follow this mindset through her writing on The Good Trade.

She graduated from Chapman University in 2017 with a B.S. in Environmental Science and Policy with a cluster in Comparative World Religions. Her goal is to inspire others to explore new places, live more sustainably and practice radical self acceptance.

Lisa is Co Founder of Purpose Disruptors and has over 20 years’ experience in the marketing, advertising communications industry. She has held leadership positions both client and agency-side working with brands such as Coca Cola, Tetley, Strongbow, Unilever, Greenpeace, WWF and innocent.

Lucy von Sturmer is the founder of award-winning impact consultancy The Humblebrag. A champion of business as a force for good, Lucy works to support business leaders and brands to take a stand on social, cultural and environmental issues.