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Mari Margill conducts campaign and organizational strategy, media and public outreach, and leads the organization’s fundraising efforts. CELDF has assisted over 100 communities across the U.S. to draft and adopt laws banning environmentally destructive corporate activities such as natural gas drilling and factory farming. In 2008, she assisted Ecuador’s constitutional assembly on the re-writing of their constitution to include Rights of Nature.
Prior to joining CELDF, Mari was the director of corporate transformation for Corporate Ethics International. She received her Master’s degree in Public Policy and Urban Planning from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Mari is the co-host of the syndicated weekly radio program Democracy Matters. She is a co-author of The Public Health or the Bottom Line published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
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Cormac Cullinan is an author, practising environmental attorney and governance expert who has worked on environmental governance issues in more than 20 countries. He lives in Cape Town, South Africa and is a director of a specialist environmental and green business law firm (www.cullinans.co.za) and of the governance consultancy, EnAct International (www.enact-international.com ).
His groundbreaking book “Wild Law A Manifesto for Earth Justice” has played a significant role in informing and inspiring a growing international movement to recognise rights for Nature. In 2008 he was included in Planet Savers. 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists, a book that profiles environmentalists throughout history. At the invitation of Bolivia, Cormac spoke at the 2009 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and led the drafting of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth which was proclaimed on 22 April 2010 by the People’s World Conference on Climate Change and the Environment in Bolivia. In September 2010 he played a leading role in establishing a Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Alliance.
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Natalia is a climate change activist based in Ecuador. Natalia works as the Political Program Coordinator at Fundacion Pachamama. She was actively involved in the recent Constitution process in Ecuador, particularly with the ‘Rights to Nature’ clause and the role of civil society and indigenous people in the process. The Ecuadorian constitution is the first in the world’s history to grant legal rights to nature, and to allow individuals to sue on nature’s behalf in courts.
Natalia collaborates with the environmental and indigenous aspects of the Yasuni-ITT  Initiative that the Ecuadorian government promotes to leave the petroleum of the biodiverse Yasuni National Park permanently underground, notably encouraging the participation of indigenous people as the real stakeholders.
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Bill Twist is one of the co-founders of The Pachamama Alliance and serves as its chief executive officer.
Bill has been the president of The Pachamama Alliance since 1996. Prior to The Pachamama Alliance, Bill had an extensive background in business. He worked in management consulting, equipment leasing and financial services industries since 1970. Bill has an undergraduate degree in engineering and a masters degree in business administration.
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Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist, and eco feminist. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers in leading scientific and technical journals. Among her books are Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace; Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development; and Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.
She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundación IDEAS, Spain’s Socialist Party’s think tank.
She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993.
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 Michelle Maloney
Australian Wild Law Alliance (www.wildlaw.org.au)
Griffth University
Australia
Michelle Maloney (BA/LLB (Hons) ANU) is an environmental lawyer and activist currently working on international and national cooperative research projects at the Griffith Climate Change Response Program in Queensland, Australia. Michelle is Co-Founder and National Convenor of the Australian Wild Law Alliance (AWLA) and is on the Managing Committee of the Queensland Environmental Defender’s Office. She is a PhD Candidate at the Griffith University’s Socio-Legal Research Centre and her research interests include Earth Jurisprudence, sustainable consumption and environmental justice. |
 Liz Rivers, Executive Committee
Wild Law UK (www.wildlawuk.org)
Europe
Liz Rivers is a speaker, writer and educator on the subject of Wild Law and Rights of Nature. She is a member of the Executive Committee of Wild Law UK. Formerly a commercial lawyer with global law firm Eversheds, she currently works with organisations to enhance their collaboration and leadership capacities, using the tools of mediation and coaching. She has pioneered awareness about Wild Law in the UK since 2004, working in collaboration with Cormac Cullinan, the UK Environmental Law Association, the Gaia Foundation and Schumacher College and she was invited to Australia in 2009 to be the keynote speaker at their first Wild Law conference. Liz is one of the authors of “Exploring Wild Law: the Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence” and has written numerous articles on the subject.
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 Robin R. Milam
Administrative Director
+1 530 272-4322
Administrative Director, Robin Milam is a social entrepreneur with a broad business and internet marketing background. Her business experience includes strategic planning and business systems development for IBM, American Express, and AirTouch Communications.
Robin’s passion is re-aligning human consciousness and restoring natural balance through the worldwide implementation of Rights of Nature. Robin is spearheading a global grassroots Rights of Mother Earth campaign to present 1,000,000 signatures calling forth the universal acceptance of Rights of Mother Earth. She and colleagues presented 120,000 signatures to UN Secretary General at the Earth Summit 2012/Rio+20 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil June 2012. Robin participated in the 2011 UN Convention on Climate Change (COP17) in Durban, South Africa and 2010 People’s Conference on Climate Change in and Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia. |
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Mari Margil – Associate Director
Cormac Cullinan LLB, LLM – Director
Natalia Greene, Political Program Coordinator
Bill Twist, CEO and Co-Founder
