About Us

Dr. Jason Scullion is a forest conservationist and Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at McDaniel College (Maryland, USA). Originally from the northwestern USA, Jason has had a lifelong interest in the conservation, exploration, and study of forests worldwide. He has a PhD in Environmental and Forest Sciences and master’s degrees in Public Administration and Forest Resources from the University of Washington. Jason's contributions to WildFF include providing board leadership and supporting the organization with field operations and project development.

Corrie is a communications consultant who has refined her creative and strategic writing skills working in healthcare advertising for 14 years. She has a master’s degree from NYU in Environmental Conservation Education. Through her foundational studies in biology and travel experiences to far-flung areas of the world, she has learned a deep respect for nature, wildlife and cultures different from her native NYC. Corrie contributes her time to WildFF as an advisor in communications, marketing and development.

Joanna is half English, half Spanish, and is a recent graduate from Oxford University’s School of Geography & the Environment, where she studied an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation and Management. She believes it’s important not just to protect biodiversity, but to make this goal relevant and beneficial to local people in order to ensure lasting success. She fell in love with the Amazon Rainforest after a visit to Peru in 2015, where she stayed for a year volunteering in wildlife rehabilitation centers.

Georgia is a nonprofit consultant who has worked with small, grassroots organizations in East Africa and Latin America for the past eight years. Her particular focus has been developing and investing in small-scale and place-based solutions, and the intersection between healthy food systems, economies, and communities. A deep believer in decolonizing development praxis, Georgia supports local communities to implement local strategies to local challenges. For WildFF, she provides program design, evaluation, and development services for projects located in East Africa.

Nancy is a consultant, coach and powerful connector. She is passionate about designing systems for collaboration and how we can work together for the mutual benefit of people and planet. Specifically, she seeds projects through co-visioning processes, team design and recruitment, project management, organizational strategy, coaching and collaboration architecture. She is a co-founder of another non-profit, impact-driven enterprise called Yellow Seed, which facilitates connections between farmers at origin and fair markets.

Liz Feldman has an MBA from Pinchot University, previously known as Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and currently serves as a business advisor for emerging, women and minority owned businesses for Portland State University’s Business Outreach Program. Her years in the Peace Corps in Paraguay, Experiential Education, Wilderness Therapy, and even her BS in Biology have helped shaped Liz’s passionate relationship with nature and the people who interact with it.

Dr. Letty Brown is a forest scientist who specializes in restoration, conservation planning, and carbon accounting. She has worked in the forests of US, Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru and Kenya. Letty holds a Ph.D. in Forest Science from UC Berkeley and did her post-doctoral work as a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil, where she conducted remote-sensing and ground-based research to map conservation targets for a portion of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. She currently works on forest carbon projects under voluntary and compliance climate change standards in California and abroad.

Vanessa is from the Madre de Dios region of Peru and one of the first participants of the Future Leaders program by WildFF. She studied anthropology and has spent her post-graduate years in the public sector in both Social Development and environmental education. She is currently a local capacity building consultant for the PROMSEX NGO in Madre de Dios. She has a strong interest in the Amazon, socioeconomic and environmental development, gender equality and public management especially in Madre de Dios.

Luis studied at the University of Arequipa in Peru with a focus on environmental science and systematics. He is a researcher at heart, taking part in several expeditions through the Peruvian Amazon to the Andes in the north of his country. He has worked on several ecological projects, with a focus on birds, to monitor behavioral and habitat changes to help inform future conservation initiatives. He was also a key contributor to the development of Las Piedras Amazon Center (LPAC) and creating good relations with the local communities. He is currently getting his PhD at the University of Oklahoma.

Claudia holds a Masters Degree in Economics and a minor in Political Sciences from the University of Bern, Switzerland. her most recent experience was an an operational risk manager with global responsibilities in a major financial institution. Having lived and worked in several countries and having travelled extensively, she is deeply interested in different cultures, and in exploring new landscapes and learning about flora and fauna. Combining her passion for photography and travelling she is currently writing a book about her travels in South America.

Sophia is German-American and has a dual master’s degree in International Nature Conservation from the University of Göttingen (Germany) and Lincoln University (New Zealand) as well as a bachelor’s from the University of Washington. Sophia’s research is focused on developing solutions for combating neo-tropical deforestation through an integration of conservation science, psychology, marketing, and social media. Particularly, her research explores human behavior and decision-making processes that influence pro- environmental behavior.