Board of Directors

Dr. Heidi Weiskel is an American marine ecologist who spent her summers at the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New England, an experience she credits for her lifelong dedication to marine ecology and coastal community protection. She has a BA from Harvard University; an MS from Tufts University; and a PhD from the University of California, Davis, where she studied the effects of nutrient pollution on marine invertebrates. She did her postdoctoral work at the University of Georgia. Heidi was the Director of Pollution Policy at the Pew Oceans Commission, a Research Fellow at the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, and a member of Surfrider Foundation’s national Engagement Team for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Most recently, she was a Staff Scientist with the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, where she directed the Marine Program. She has worked as an Environmental Research Fellow at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague and as a science editor at UNESCO in Paris. She serves as an Advisory Council Member of the Estuary & Ocean Science Center at San Francisco State University, an Advisory Board Member of the Center for Animals and Public Policy at Tufts University, and a Board Member of the Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance in Colombia. She currently leads the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Ocean Team for North America, and is a member of the IUCN Marine Connectivity Working Group.



Thuli Makama is Oil Change International’s Senior Advisor for Africa, providing strategic direction and campaign support for the organization’s work in Africa. Thuli works closely with civil society organizations and other stakeholders in the Africa region to shift energy finance towards clean energy access and to expose the impacts of fossil fuel projects. As a public interest environmental lawyer, Thuli has decades of experience advocating for public participation in environmental and economic development decisions. In 2010, she was awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize also known as the Green Nobel. For several years Thuli has been fighting to ensure the participation of civil society and the voice of environmental justice in Swaziland. Prior to founding the Environmental Law Center, Thuli was Executive Director of the environmental justice organization Yonge Nawe/ Friends of the Earth Swaziland. She currently serves on the Boards of Greenpeace International and Environment Technology Concentration (ETC). Thuli is a lawyer from Eswatini University and has a master's degree in environment and development from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Erin Daly is Professor of Law at Delaware Law School in the United States and the Executive Director of Dignity Rights International, which advances the human right to dignity throughout the world through education, advocacy, and litigation. She has written extensively and co-edited numerous volumes on environmental constitutionalism, including Global Environmental Constitutionalism (2015) and Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism (2018) and she is the co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Human Rights and the Environment: Indivisibility, Dignity Legality, Geography  (2019). She is the author of Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (2013), a comparative analysis of jurisprudence about the right to human dignity from around the world, and co-author of Reconciliation in Divided Societies: Finding Common Ground (2006), co-written with South African scholar Jeremy Sarkin and with an Introduction by Archbishop Desmond Tutu., She is currently at work on several projects about dignity rights, including the first legal casebook on the subject. She serves as the Director of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment, and as the US National Correspondent for the Centre international de droit comparé de l'environnement (CIDCE).

Sebastián Rubiano Galvis. Lawyer and Master in Geography at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley (USA). He has a special interest in the relationships between environmental governance, expertise and power. He is co-founder and member of the Environmental Law Research Group at the Universidad de los Andes and affiliated clinical professor of the Environment and Public Health Clinic -MASP- at the same university. He has been a professor of environmental law at the Universidad de los Andes and in the Master's program in environmental law and management at the Universidad del Rosario. He has been a consultant in environmental law and policy for organizations such as WWF, Gaia Amazonas, Tropenbos, Instituto Humboldt, IOM, among others. He is currently Visiting Doctoral Fellow (2018-2019) at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario. He is the author of several publications on environmental law and policy issues, such as "Territorios en transformación, derechos en movimiento" (Ed. Uniandes 2018, with B. Sánchez) and "Las corporaciones autónomas regionales y la regulación ambiental del territorio en el borde norte de Bogotá" (in Lamprea and Alviar (eds.) Ed. Uniandes 2016, with V. Esteban).  

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