Founder and Director
Etelle Higonnet, attorney and environmental activist, has worked at Mighty Earth, National Wildlife Federation, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, as well as two war crimes courts. She was knighted as a Chevalier de l'ordre national du Mérite for her pioneering efforts to curb deforestation in high-risk commodities with an emphasis on cocoa, rubber, palm oil, cattle, and soy industries. She has worked in over 30 countries, is widely published, speaks 9 languages, and is a graduate of Yale Law School.
Social media guru
Vinitha Prabhu
Media advisors
John Surico and Angela Alameida
Angela Almeida is an Emmy-nominated producer and freelance journalist based in New York City. She is known for her work on the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series “ROTTEN" (Netflix), "MerPeople" (Netflix), “VICE” (Showtime), “Somebody Feed Phil" (Netflix) and "Gutsy" (Apple), hosted by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, and produced "Do Not Attempt" (Disney+; NatGeo). Angela has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times, Reuters, The Huffington Post and The Guardian, among other outlets, and has reported in over 10 countries on topics related to social justice, culture and politics. She holds a BA in journalism and psychology from New York University and a MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford.
John Surico is a journalist, researcher and educator. He teaches urban-centric reporting at the NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and serves as the Senior Fellow for Climate and Opportunity at Center for an Urban Future, a leading policy organization in New York City. His reporting can be found in over 50+ outlets, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Guardian, and elsewhere. He is currently writing a book about Tactical Urbanism with Mike Lydon and Tony Garcia of Street Plans, slated for publication in 2025, and he authors a monthly newsletter on Substack called "Streetbeat." He is based in Queens, New York, where he is the chairperson of the 31st Ave Open Street Collective, a neighbor-run group that organizes a pop-up public space on weekends.
Legal partners
- International Rights Advocates
- International Human Rights Clinic at the College of Law, University of Wyoming
- Clinic at AgroParisTech Paris-Saclay
- Seattle Avocats
- Corporate Accountability Lab
- Richman Law Group
- LexCollective
- Deutsche Umwelt Hilfe
NGO partners
- Adere
- AidEnvironment
- Auriga
- Centre pour l'Environnement et le Développement
- China Labor Watch
- Climate Rights International
- Conectas
- Empower
- Fern
- Repórter Brasil
- TheTreeMap