I have spent more than two decades weaving ecology, wellbeing, and community care into grounded, practical action. Born into an environmentalist household during the era that first revealed humanity’s planetary limits, I grew up with a deep awareness of our responsibility to protect the living world. My studies in sustainable land management, agriculture, and ecology strengthened that early calling and opened the path for a life devoted to regeneration, resilience, and social inclusion.

My professional journey has unfolded across Canada, Indonesia, the Middle East, Italy, and the UK, coordinating climate, sustainability, and education initiatives that bridge environmental stewardship with human wellbeing. In 2007, inspired by the Center for Ecoliteracy in California, I co-founded an environmental school in Bologna dedicated to reconnecting families and vulnerable teenagers with nature and community. I later trained in systemic counselling with the Hellinger Schule, developing a grounded sensitivity to group dynamics, inclusion, and compassionate communication.

In 2011, life brought me to Scotland, a place that immediately felt like home. Here, I began facilitating Nature Connection workshops, Experience Weeks, and a broad range of community programmes. In 2014, I launched the first Building Resilience investigation at the Findhorn Park, applying circular economy and Natural Step principles to assess long-term access to food, energy, and essential services. Many of those early insights now resonate strongly with PET’s mission of supporting community resilience and guaranteeing basic needs.

Over the next eight years, I worked with Scottish Government agencies on the Circular Economy Strategy, ran a climate consultancy, mentored nearly one hundred climate-innovation start-ups through the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, and co-founded Green Grow, a multi-award-winning circular mushroom-foods company.

My personal healing journey as a two-time cancer survivor led me to train with the University of Winchester as a plant-based nutrition coach. I now support cancer patients and people in transition through a Gift Economy model based on reciprocity, care, and access for all. This commitment to equity and inclusion also informs my work as Operations, Communications, and Fundraising Manager for the Caring Community Circle, where I help secure resources for community wellbeing, basic-needs access, inclusion programmes, and impact support.

Today, as Carbon Strategy Director for PET, I bring together these strands: ecology, community care, regeneration, and cooperative governance. My approach is intentionally emergent: listening first, building strategy through collaboration, and grounding climate action in the lived realities of people’s needs. I believe that true resilience cannot be imposed; it must be co-created in relationship—between people, between sectors, and with the Earth itself.

Guided by the principles of Doughnut Economics and the Wellbeing Economy, I aim to support PET in continuing Findhorn’s legacy as a living laboratory where human and ecological communities can flourish together. My work is rooted in a simple conviction: regeneration begins in relationships—care for the Earth, care for one another, and care for the systems that sustain life. Only through shared custodianship can we cultivate a community that thrives within the generous limits of our biosphere.