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Charlie Wood
Charlie has 15 years of experience working as a campaigner, organiser, and policy advisor across the environmental movement. As the former Campaigns Director for 350.org Australia, Charlie helped to launch and implement the Australian fossil fuel divestment campaign, push some of the world's biggest banks to say no to funding fossil fuel projects and grow the national #StopAdani network. Charlie also worked with amazing school students in regional Victoria to start and grow the School Strike 4 Climate Movement in Australia. Prior to this, Charlie worked as a national grassroots campaigner with the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and in Parliament as an advisor on climate, energy and environment.
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Moira Williams
For over a decade Moira has been a leader in the grassroots climate movement - from building a network of Climate Action Groups in NSW to working with landholders, traditional owners and coal affected communities in central Central QLD and the United States. She has been an active member of numerous grassroots climate collectives, and for the last 4 years has worked on the campaign to keep Galilee basin coal safely in the ground.
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Isaac Astill
Isaac has worked at 350.org Australia on the fossil fuel divestment campaign which led to over 150 institutions moving their money out of fossil fuels. As a #StopAdani Campaigner, Isaac has helped launch, grow, and support the grassroots network that has been the engine room of the campaign. This has included helping run the #StopAdani Roadshow attended by 4000 people, the successful campaign push on Westpac and CommBank with 130+ actions, and the design of the #StopAdani website that has 160 groups and 1000+ events registered and counting. For his contributions, Isaac has been awarded the Bob Brown Young Environmentalist of the Year.
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Josh Creaser
Calmly managing big and complex projects is his forte - including the first ever Adani week of action targeting Commonwealth Bank at 50 branches and the 2018 Beyond Coal and Gas Jamboree. Josh helped rebuild an active climate movement in Canberra through training and mentoring dozens of volunteers, building collaborations and leading the successful campaign to get the ACT Government to divest from fossil fuels. Josh also has experience working in solidarity with frontline communities.
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Nina Atkinson
Nina has eight years working in the climate movements of Australia & New Zealand. Previously she worked as the Co-Convener of Generation Zero, New Zealand's youth-run climate organisation, where she helped to launch and run the campaign for the Zero Carbon Act, a groundbreaking piece of climate change legislation about to be passed into law. She has campaigned for climate action and social justice at ActionStation Aoteroa, where she established a community campaigning platform now widely used across NZ. More recently she has worked on the StopAdani campaign initially as a campaigner at GetUp, working with grassroots groups across the country.
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Matt Ross
Matt is passionate about climate justice and has spent the last 8 year campaigning and organising on climate and social change. For the last 3 years has been co-ordinating the formidable #StopAdani Gold Coast group, and helped to lead a team of legends to become one of the strongest groups in the country turning the Gold Coast into a burgeoning hub of climate activism. He's just finished his role working in mental health to commit full-time to the climate movement. Matt is a keen surfer and is based on the Gold Coast on Yugambeh speaking country.
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Aimee Bull-McMahon
Aimee has 7 years experience working on digital communications, campaigns and organising in the union, climate and human rights movements. She began her career working for members of the mighty United Voice union (now the United Workers Union) and has since led digital communications teams at both Solar Citizens and Amnesty International Australia.
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Manjot Kaur
Manjot Kaur is an Indian-Australian activist from Mudgee. She was a leader of the first School Strike 4 Climate in Sydney, organising the biggest climate protests in Australia’s history. Drawing on her connection to Punjab, Manjot works to decolonise the environment movement by growing Sapna South Asian Climate Solidarity. Manjot has coordinated a School Summit at AYCC, shifted politics in the 2019 election by supporting independent candidates through Climate Leaders and empowered community groups at the Australian Conservation Foundation.
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Millie Anthony
Millie has been an organiser and campaigner within the climate justice movement for the past 7 years. Millie has previously worked primarily with young people at the Australian Youth Climate Coalition working to build youth-lead grassroots power. She's also worked as part of the Stop Adani alliance in Queensland. Millie has recently been in the UK, working with Greenpeace and learning from the UK climate movement.
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Mick McGrath
A graduate of political science at USYD, Mick cut his teeth as an organiser with GetUp working to oust Tony Abbott. He began supporting School Strike 4 Climate (SS4C) as a key project manager of the Sydney #ClimateStrike in September 2019, part of the biggest climate protests in Australia’s history. Mick continued supporting the SS4C network on projects such as their Summit in January 2020, bringing together over 100 school students for 3 days from every state and territory. Mick assisted the students with adapting to the pandemic by mobilising over 630+ small protests, the most distributed day of climate action in Australia’s history.
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Madeline Price
Growing up in rural Queensland, Madeline (she/they) has a passion for community development, locally-led activism and people-powered change. Working in the social change space for the past ten years, Madeline has a history in the environmental movement with the Australian Conservation Foundation, feminist and intersectional gender justice with the One Woman Project, and international development with the Pacific Judicial Strengthening Initiative.
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