Kristina is the director of the Solberga Foundation, a family foundation that supports transformative grassroots movements for climate justice. Solberga Foundation was established in 2018 in the UK and gives grants globally. For over 10 years Kristina has been engaged in activism for racial, gender and climate justice. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College. She worked for Planned Parenthood and the United Nations Peace Women Program. She co-founded Resource Justice in the UK, a community of young people with wealth committed to the equitable distribution of wealth, land, and power. She is a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, working towards a fairer tax system in the UK. She is a proud trustee of the Vagina Museum and the EDGE Funders Alliance. She is originally from the UK and Sweden and now resides in London. 

Farhana is an internationally recognized environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert. She has advised leaders and ministers on UN climate negotiations for 30 years, representing small islands and developing countries and attending nearly every major climate summit since 1991.She is currently the Coordinator of the Climate Justice & Just Transition Donor Collaborative Project – a project bringing together some of the world’s largest private philanthropies on an educational journey about how to tackle systemic inequalities through intersectional solutions. She works at the Doc Society coordinating the Climate Reframe Project which seeks to amplify the voice of racialized minorities in the UK environment movement and is also Co-Coordinator of Culture COP - a pilot initiative exploring what kind of arts and culture we want to make, promote and support that can reduce harm and help create a more climate just and safe world for all.

Erika manages the Charity Pot program at Lush North America.  A long-time “Lushie”, Erika has spent the past 18 years living and breathing Lush’s values and beliefs.  In public relations and retail marketing Erika helped the LUSH brand gain recognition as an ethical retailer. Years later she helped to form and transition onto Lush’s Charitable Giving Team, where she has dedicated her time ever since. Lush’s Charity Pot program, under Erika and her team’s management, has grown tremendously since its launch in 2007, granting $55 million to 3,200 projects in 83 countries. Erika’s passion for supporting grassroots movements to effect long-term systematic change, and her work in partnership with frontline communities is helping to contribute to philanthropy’s movement towards a more progressive and inclusive model of giving.

Shannon Biggs co-founded Movement Rights in 2014 to work with tribes and primarily communities of color to align human laws with the laws of the natural world. Prior to that she was with Global Exchange for 12 years, where she directed Community & Nature’s Rights program. At that time she was among a handful of US organizers to articulate and spread the ideas that have become a vibrant global movement for the Rights of Nature. She is a co-founder and Executive Committee member of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. In addition to working with communities in California to pass rights-based laws, in 2017 Movement Rights assisted the Ponca Nation of Oklahoma to make history as the first tribe to recognize the Rights of Nature in tribal law. Since that time 5 other tribes in North America have recognized legal standing for tribal ecosystems. Globally, she has worked with Indigenous communities, led Rights of Nature fact-finding delegations in India, New Zealand, Bolivia and Ecuador, and organized and participated in international Rights of Nature Tribunals. She is the co-author of two books, Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots and The Rights of Nature: Making the Case for the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. She was a senior staffer at International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and a Lecturer in International Relations and Environment at SFSU and holds a Masters in Economics, Empire and Decolonization from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Olga is an experienced trainer, facilitator and project coordinator. Before Tripod she worked with Nourish Scotland, a NGO campaigning for food justice, where she focused both on grassroots movement-building and policy change. She has a background in Social Anthropology and has been involved with different groups working for social and climate justice over the past 10 years. She’s interested in how we can support each other to act collectively and strategically in this time of spiralling social and ecological chaos, and stay resourced for the long-haul.

Casey Camp Horinek is an elder and the Environmental Ambassador for the Southern Ponca Tribe of what is now called Oklahoma. She is the Drumkeeper of Ponca Pa’thata Women’s Society. In addition to being the founding chairwoman of Movement Rights’ Board, she also directs our Ponca Rights of Nature campaign. While serving on the Ponca Business Committee, Casey led her community to become the first tribe to recognize the Rights of Nature in tribal law in the US. She serves as the chair of the Indigenous Council for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature. As a result of fracking, pipelines and the Phillips 66 Refinery, the Ponca people community live in one of the worst fossil fuel impacted areas in the United States. She calls it “environmental genocide.”