About

Faith Flanigan

360 Lead

Faith Flanigan is dedicated to systems change through catalyzing collective insights and driving grassroots initiatives towards global adoption of regenerative practices. As the previous Interim Executive Director and Directors of Operations of the Buckminster Fuller Institute, she has over eighteen years of experience, she works to bridge experts with community leaders, catalyzing systems change and facilitating the global adoption of regenerative practices at the intersection of food sovereignty, livelihoods, ecology, and climate.

James Atherton

Learning Lead

James is a Queer, Vegan Permaculture designer, with a background in climate activism, film and the arts. Originally from unceded Turrbal and Jagera land in Meanjin (so called Brisbane, Australia), James lives in the UK. James was a founding member of Regenerosity, and Re-Alliance, a network of regenerative practitioners with a focus on influencing the humanitarian and development sectors with regenerative change. James also works on the coordination team of the Lush Spring Prize, a biennial award focussed on celebrating eco-social regeneration.

Eva Iglesias

Development Lead

Eva has worked in Marketing and Strategy for over two decades and has a special passion for land regeneration, agroecology, and economic transformation. She weaves her skills in strategy, business planning, ecological design, and storytelling to help fund transformative initiatives, reimagine systems, and create opportunities for money to flow in service to life.

Juliet Millican

Participatory Learning Monitoring & Evaluation Lead

Juliet Millican is a research associate at the Institute of Development Studies and an expert in curriculum design and the development of learning materials for capacity building. She brings with her ten years’ experience as academic director of a community university partnership programme, (CUPP) at The University of Brighton and a background in adult learning for development. She has worked in many parts of Africa and the Middle East with some experience in India, Myanmar and Nepal. Juliet is the co-ordinator of the Re-Alliance network.

Livia Prestes

Amazon Regional & Flow Fund Coordinator

Livia is a communicator, works in the communication, art, culture and sustainable development working groups of the Maniva Agroecology Network, a social movement in the state of Amazonas. She works on the creation and execution of several socio-environmental projects in Brazil, making it easier for regeneration agendas to have an increasing voice and reach.

Wegesa Jane Fraser

East Africa Regional Coordinator

Wegesa Jane Fraser (fondly labeled “Jjaja”) is a Kenyan with an aim to inspire communities to develop strength in social, natural, and financial capital. Driven by the degraded state of Kenya’s Natural resources and inspired by her childhood memories of a healthy land and environment. She has worked with different organizations to deliver training and supply vegetative material to multiple projects in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo, transforming lands and livelihoods. Wegesa is a Co-founder and Board member of Platform for Land Use Sustainability Kenya (PLUS-Kenya NGO). A Deputy Chairperson of the Kenya Landscape Restoration Action Group. A co-founder of Boma Ikolojia Regeneration project in West Pokot County. And a board member at Matunda Primary Sub-County Hospital, Trans Nzoia County. She is a Community mobilizer, Permaculture and Regenerative agriculture trainer and practitioner working with local communities, showing them to adopt simple and effective techniques i.e. kitchen gardens, food forest, holistic grazing, Permaculture, and other Regenerative solutions that help to restore degraded landscapes, improve livelihoods and boost resilience. Wegesa also sits on the Supervisory Board at Ecosystem Restoration Communities Foundation and is appointed by The Vetiver Network International (TVNI) as a country coordinator, and a certified vetiver grass supplier and trainer.

My motto: I am a believer and follower of Jesus Christ as a savior, and my achievement is for His glory.

Ruth Andrade

Co-founder & Strategy Lead, Regenerosity, Head of Sustainability, LUSH UK

Originally from Brazil, Ruth is a systems activist, identifying key interventions in business, philanthropy and non-profit systems to support grassroots-led regenerative change. Besides leading Lush Cosmetics’ environmental strategy since 2004, and informed by her MSc in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies, Ruth has co-founded many networks, initiatives, and non-profits in Brazil, US and the UK. She is a trustee and co-founder of Re-Alliance, a collective of practitioners bringing regenerative design to the humanitarian and development sectors, and is on the board of Terra Agora Foundation, an initiative working to liberate land from speculation into regeneration.

Stuart Cowan

Secretary + Executive Director, Buckminster Fuller Institute

Stuart brings 25 years of experience in regenerative design, finance and systems and is a skilled transition designer, researcher and leader of transdisciplinary initiatives. He is the co-founder of Autopoesis LLC, which works to regenerate communities, ecosystems and organizations. He was the founding convener of the Regenerative Communities Network from 2018-20, supporting 15 bioregions on their journeys of regeneration. Stuart is the co-author with Sim Van der Ryn of Ecological Design (Island Press, 1996/2007), and received his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from U.C. Berkeley with a focus on Complex Systems and Ecological Economics. He has taught and facilitated internationally for academic institutions, cities, companies, indigenous groups, government agencies, and NGOs.

Justin Winters

Executive Director and Co-Founder, One Earth

Driven by a passion for nature, Justin Winters is committed to democratizing climate philanthropy in order to create an inclusive and impactful movement to address the climate crisis from the ground up. She is the Co-founder and Executive Director of One Earth, a nonprofit organization working to galvanize science, advocacy, and philanthropy to drive collective action on climate change. Through One Earth, she is focused on creating a vision for the world that is possible by 2050 – one in which humanity and nature coexist and thrive together. This vision is based on three pillars of action: 100% renewable energy, protection and restoration of 50% of the world’s lands and oceans, and a transition to regenerative, carbon-negative agriculture. Prior to One Earth, Justin served as Executive Director of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation for 13 years, where she built the organization’s grant-making program, which awarded over $100 million in grants across 60 countries and created a series of innovative philanthropic funds, including Oceans 5, Shark Conservation Fund, The Solutions Funds, Lion Recovery Fund, Elephant Crisis Fund, and Quick Response Fund for Nature.

Faith Flanigan

360 Lead

With a deep belief in systems change, Faith has worked in the environmental field for 2 decades with various NGOs and for-profits including Global Footprint Network, The Nature Conservancy, Buckminster Fuller Institute and Spherical Studio. She was the previous Operations Director and Interim Executive Director for the Buckminster Fuller Institute for 6 years, and co-founded Regenerosity. She leads oversight of Regenerosity programs, operations and management. She focuses on designing and building systems from a whole systems perspective and has developed several programs including Regenerosity, Trimtab Space Camp, the Cooperating Manual for Spaceship Earth and the Design Science Studio.

Allison Fajans-Turner

Board Member, Bank Fwd

Is the Managing Director of BankFWD. A career-long climate policy and communications strategist with experience in both global and domestic arenas, she has contributed to pivotal climate research, journalism, coalition-building, and campaigns that now define national and global climate discourse. As the Associate Director of Special Projects and Partners at Climate Nexus, she co-founded and continues to advise America Is All In (formerly We Are Still In), a 4,000+ member, nationwide coalition of political and corporate leaders active in supporting US climate goals. As an Upstate New York native, Allison served on the inaugural community advisory board for the City of Ithaca’s Green New Deal, the most accelerated carbon-neutrality plan of any city in the United States. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins-SAIS in International Relations and Economics and a BA from Brown University.

Gamelilhe Sibandi

Board Member

Coming soon.

Heather Deeth

Board Member

Coming soon.

Renata Strengerowski

Brazilian advisor

Coming soon.

Noah Ssempijja

EAST AFRICA ADVISOR

Noah is an experienced professional in the non-profit development sector with over a decade of work across Uganda. He has held key management roles at organizations like GiveDirectly, MTN Uganda, and Heifer International, and is currently focused on growing YICE Uganda. Noah has specialized training in Permaculture and holds a bachelor’s degree in Adult and Community Education, along with a recent MA in Refugee Protection and Forced Migration Studies from the University of London. At YICE Uganda, he provides strategic direction and manages partnerships, donor engagement, and communication. Noah is passionate about empowering women and refugee communities.

Ana Rosa de Lima

BRAZIL & AMAZON ADVISOR

Coming soon.