Assistant to the Executive Director
"The word “love” is most often defined as a noun, yet all the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.
– bell hooks
Program Assistant
"But once in a while the odd thing happens,
Once in a while the dream comes true,
And the whole pattern of life is altered,
Once in a while the moon turns blue.
– W.H. Auden
Program Planning & Improvement Lead
"Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
– Rebecca Solnit
Executive Director
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
– Maya Angelou
Program Director
"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.
– Rumi
Operations & Finance Assistant
"It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality.
– Amartya Sen
Program Manager Asia
"Indifference is the worst kind of disease that can affect people.
– Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar
Managing Director
"We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.
– Albert Einstein
Program Officer
"At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.
– Chico Mendes
Impact and Learning Advisor
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
– Audre Lorde
Grants Coordinator
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
– Lao Tzu
Operations Transformation Lead
"Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return.
– Ryszard Kapuscinski
Program Manager USA
"If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
– Lilla Watson
Chief of Staff
"They tried to bury us; they didn't know we were seeds.
– Dinos Christianopoulos
Program Manager Europe
"We must undertake struggle in all parts of the world, wherever we may be, because we have no replacement planet, we only have this one, and we have to take action.
– Berta Cáceres
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