Following six years as GDF Director and then Co-Director, Emily’s new role involves advising, supporting and mentoring the GDF team, facilitating GDF vision and strategy evolution, and running the Conservation Justice Programme. Through the latter, she leads the Conservation & Community Fellowship, co-leads the Grassroots Leadership Programme, and oversees the Conservation Futures Dialogues.

Social and environmental justice are at the heart of her work, and she has collaborated with non-profits in these fields for over twenty years. She is passionate about reweaving and maintaining healthy, loving and life-affirming relationships between humans, more-than-humans and our planetary home. She is rooted in the Appenines of central Italy, where with her husband and children she grows food, medicine and community.