Experience

Iracambi Rainforest Research and Conservation

• Brazil
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• International Liaison

  • Dec 2019 - Present

• Writer

  • Jan 2000 - Present

  Here's a list of my books; Voices From the Amazon, Kumarian Press, Hartford CT; Rainforest, Longmans, London;A Land to Die For, Clarity, Atlanta, GA; Trapped, Modern day Slavery in the Brazilian Amazon, Kumarian Press, Hartford, CT;The Greatest Gift, The Courageous Life and Martyrdom of Sister Dorothy Stang, Doubleday, New York; Where the Road Ends: A Home in the Brazilian Rainforest, St Martins Press.These have been published in several languages, one has been adapted for a radio drama, and I'm working on developing one into a feature film. I have contributed towards articles for the Guardian, have been a columnist for a Brazilian agribusiness magazine and have recently done a book review for the Washington Post. I have recently completed a book about the families of the people who continue to be forcibly "disappeared" in Colombia. Show less



92 St Y Ford Motor Company

• São Paulo Area, Brazil

• 92Y Ford International Fellow 2018

  • Feb 2018 - Present



Climate Reality

• Brazil

• Climate Reality Leader

  • Nov 2014 - Present

  In November 2014 I joined nearly 7000 leaders from across the world in working to reverse the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced - climate change. We know the problem: carbon pollution. The solutions - clean energy and collective will - are to hand. We know true change happens when we embrace reality, and we are committed to getting smart, getting loud, and getting active. Our leaders aren’t going to do it on their own. So we’re bringing millions together to make them, demanding change with a collective voice so loud and forceful they have no choice but to help shape the clean-energy future we need. In 2023 I submitted the Forest Restoration program at Iracambi to the Brazilian Climate Reality Leaders. The program was awarded the Decarbonization Prize for the category of best program in the southeastern region of Brazil. Show less



Iracambi Research Center

• International Liaison

  • 1999 - Present

  At the Iracambi Research Center based in the Atlantic Rainforest of Brazil, our vision is to see flourishing communities living sustainably in a flourishing landscape and our mission is to make the conservation of the forest more attractive than its destruction. We welcome students, researchers and volunteers who want to join our programs all of which focus on Saving Forests and Changing Lives. The Research Center houses the Iracambi Forest Nursery which makes and supplies native forest tree seedlings for forest restoration under our program Forests4Water. In parallel with Forests4Water we have a program of forest monitoring and are developing our exciting new Smart Forest program. Our educational programs include Young Eco Leaders (introducing local schoolchildren to rainforest science,) and Forest Therapies where we research the properties of native medicinal plants and work with local women to develop a range of natural forest based products. Show less

• Lecturer and guest educator

  • Jan 1995 - Present

  Each year I spend an average of three months traveling and lecturing at US universities on environmental and human rights. My experiences include presenting at universities across the US and the UK, presenting at Brazilian institutions (In English and Portuguese, ) delivering keynote speeches at international conferences and working as Guest Educator on Peace Boat where I learned to present with Japanese translators, and was later inspired to take up the study of Japanese.

• President

  • 1999 - 2016



Partners of the Americas

• United States
• International Affairs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• International Board Member 2013-16

  • Nov 2013 - Nov 2016

  I spent three years as an active member of the International Board of Partners of the Americas, being one of two Brazilian representatives. Despite my very busy schedule I joined this board because I believe in the mission of Partners of the Americas: connect, sere and change lives. It's very much in line with our work at Iracambi where our tag line is saving forests, changing lives. I rotated off the board at the end of November 2016,. but continue to be actively involved in the organization. I spent three years as an active member of the International Board of Partners of the Americas, being one of two Brazilian representatives. Despite my very busy schedule I joined this board because I believe in the mission of Partners of the Americas: connect, sere and change lives. It's very much in line with our work at Iracambi where our tag line is saving forests, changing lives. I rotated off the board at the end of November 2016,. but continue to be actively involved in the organization.



Self employed

• Concert pianist

  • 1965 - 1984

  Before moving to Brazil I was a concert pianist, based in London, Washington DC, and New Delhi. I also raised two children, became proficient in five languages and taught English as a second language. Before moving to Brazil I was a concert pianist, based in London, Washington DC, and New Delhi. I also raised two children, became proficient in five languages and taught English as a second language.