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Volunteers & Professionals
Over the years, the Society for Environmental Education -INTERNATIONAL WAS pleased to work together with dedicated volunteers and professionals from around the world. Without their contribution, passion and drive for the cause, none of the work could hAVE been accomplished. The Society is grateful for each individual’s contribution.
Carol Chan
She has a track record of creating multiple webpages for environmental education in China, and having them all shot down by the Party. Carol grew up in Taipei, enjoyed the freedom of an open society with a democratic election system and free press. After years of ex-patting in Beijing, air pollution and the unwillingness of the government to give back her domains, she decided that enough was enough and moved to the most liberal city in the world; Amsterdam.
Jorrit Garretson
To the best knowledge of the universe, he is the only cameraman to have ever stood on the Kofi Annan’s desk wearing holed socks, unscrewing light bulbs from the ceiling, arguing that it will make a tremendous difference for the set-up of the interview. And he got away with it because he was right. No one works harder to set up an interview, and no one makes it look more sublime and crisp.
GISELE INGABIRE
When signing up for a research position at SEE-International, she was not amused when her first assignment took her on a field trip to a land of rain-soaked slippery slopes and across a thousand hills. Years of office job hadn’t prepared her, but she remained committed, and never returned to the construction firm she used to work for. Gisele continued with the Norwegian consulate in Kigali, working in sustainable development.
As a true cosmopolitan citizen of the earth, Thomas has traversed life and this planet on a most individualistic path. He has initiated and curated projects from New York to Kathmandu, from Switzerland to Bali, always committed to revitalizing the forgotten spirits of the Dreamseeds.
Etienne Fourie
A Cape Town-based cameraman with a heavy backpack full of lenses and something in stock to improve every shot. There is no corner of Africa that he hasn’t been.
Tim BOOTSMAN
After he pocketed a Bachelor of Arts in Utrecht and studied Visual Effects at Gnomon School in Hollywood, he co-founded Dontell, a motion design studio based in the Netherlands. He is dedicated to contributing animations and graphics as a way to communicate the most pressing environmental issues of our time.
Dave DE VAAL
With a proven track record of almost a decade in motion and design, he has developed into a true creative visual designer and co-founder of Dontell, a not-yet-award-winning motion-design studio based in Amsterdam. Besides art and design, Dave is strongly interested in sustainable living and prefabricated houses, all of which continue to prove their statics were calculated correctly. Keep on building Dave!
Marco Zink
A man with an 8-5 office job and a three-room condominium in downtown Cologne, as well as a truck driving license for the Australian outback. After working for too long in minerals exploration he had his moment of Satori, realizing there is a fundamental flaw in how we treat this planet.
Following the call of the earth’s oceans, he found his mission in helping to protect the planet’s blue, while learning how to walk on waves.
SAngita Decka
Botanist by birth and knowledgeable of every species you might need for your successful restoration project across the Indian subcontinent. As a documentary film host, she wouldn’t mind giving on-cameras in the most challenging locations: near the spray of a roaring river, along freshly trampled wild elephant tracks, inside a sawmill that runs at full speed or in the rush hour traffic of Guwahati.
GabRielle Lipton
A communicator who only ever wanted to write fiction books yet somehow found herself working “real jobs” in climate change and innovation for research institutes and the UN. Nevertheless, she will one day realise her artistic dreams alongside her efforts toward building a more sustainable future, as well as open an ice cream shop (the ultimate goal). Stay tuned.
ButByen Shebut
Butbyen means all is well, and so it will be. Just when you think your film production in Northern Nigeria has reached the point where the decision to change your profession is final, she comes along. Something tells you that even with broken lenses, the AK-47 guards gone, and your car out of patrol, you will make it out alive with a film and friendship that you will treasure for years to come.
Leon AltFeld
Imagine your country is under lockdown during a pandemic. Nobody is allowed to leave their home. The roads are empty like in a high-noon scene just before shots will ring. Your doorbell rings, and someone asks you to borrow a camera to shoot a film. You won’t hesitate a moment in handing over the gear, knowing that one could not be more committed to the art.
David Suzuki
We all hope and pray to the various gods we believe in that David sees the noble cause of the mission and finds his name written on here and agrees to be our honorable board member. We are grateful for his longest-running TV Series on the environment. The nature of things has never been more clear.
She is the only person on this webpage who has ever met Barack Obama and the only one who has received the Nelson Mandala Scholarship Award. Besides her impressive career achievements, she is the most down-to-earth person and best car driver in congested West African towns.
Marie has no problem asking a cameraman for a fifth take, if she is not satisfied with take one, two, three or four. She is currently working on ecosystem restoration and migration issues in West Africa.
PATRICK AUGENSTEIN
Years ago he had the idea that the world needs another society, not royal, not exclusive, not meant to promote ball sports and founded the Society for Environmental Educations – International.
Iris Ma
Iris Namaste Ma is a photographer with a keen focus on environmental and humanitarian issues. With ten years of training in classic painting, her instincts for compositions and lighting are far above average. When not meditating, reading Spinoza, nor in praying-upward-turtle-pose, or behind a camera, Iris works in talent acquisition management in the technology sector.
Wouter Klöpping
The creator of this spectacular website is Wouter Klöpping. He loves to build all kinds of web-based solutions and also focuses on motion design with his company. He never counted the uncountable hours that went into these pages and we will always be indebted to him.
Felix Wilmsen
Man of the early hour, fossil fuel phase-out fan and award-winning critical geographer, who received the renowned Austrian Leopold-Scheidl-Preis for Economic Geographies for his research on de-growth and post-capitalistic societies. Felix is currently teaching at Bremen University and is the general manager of the artec-Research Center for Sustainability Studies.
Seifu Gebreslassie
If you ever get lost in Ethiopia by taking the wrong turn or are mired in cultural barriers, be sure to have Seifu’s number. On countless occasions, he helped wrestle with the complexities of film productions, local chiefdoms and bureaucratic hurdles of Rift-Valley-proportions. Above all, he is a university-trained development expert specializing in ecosystem restoration, and is currently focusing on the rehabilitation of community lands in the northern part of the country. He certainly knows more tree species than 99% of humanity.
Carla Soliz
A South American illustrator from Bolivia, hungry for knowledge, travels, and – above all – for anticuchos and vegan burgers. She likes silly jokes, lots of coffee, and illustrating things in green. Carla studied graphic design at UPB and learned from the grand masters of illustration such as Javier Jaén (New York Times) or Amaiia Arrázola during her years in Barcelona.
Currently, she works as a lecturer at the Graphic Design Career Center at UNIFRANZ, and is ready to simplify the complexity of any environmental issue with the brush of a few strokes.
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