CO-CREATOR, CEO

Andrew is an award-winning author and long-time veteran of creative campaigns for social change. He is co-founder of Beautiful Trouble, the art-activist toolbox and global training organization; and the Climate Ribbon global story-sharing project. HIs most recent book, “I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor” is in bookstores now. Unable to come up with his own lifelong ambition, he’s been cribbing from Milan Kundera: “to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form” — a sensibility he brings to the Climate Clock, where he serves as CEO (aka Chief Existential Officer).

CO-CREATOR, CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

Gan Golan is an artist, activist and NY Times bestselling author who has dedicated his life to developing creative strategies to help mass popular movements win against difficult odds. He has been a cultural organizer for over 30 years and was a lead designer of The People’s Climate March, one of the largest climate mobilizations in history. Born to working class parents on the West Coast, he attended Berkeley, Harvard and MIT, but still finds his home in grassroots movements. When not sketching doodles on zoom calls, he is raising two amazing young daughters.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS & SPECIAL PROJECTS

Alexa brings her non-profit fundraising experience and passion for international climate policy to her work as the Fundraising Lead at Climate Clock. Alexa has a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Indiana University. In her free time, Alexa enjoys making and eating desserts, binge-watching TV, taking long walks, and learning about ancient history.

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Simone is a results driven communicator specialising in branding, strategic communications and storytelling. Born in Ireland and located in Berlin, Simone has spent the last 10+ years working in communications, marketing, editorial, publishing, events and impact entrepreneurship. With a passion for all things climate, art and culture, and a wide breadth of experience in multiple fields, Simone brings a fresh perspective and a fun energy to all projects. In her free time, she can be found pursuing her many passions, meeting new people and visiting new places.

RESEARCH SPECIALIST

Diana is a feminist biologist who is very passionate about building people power by de-elite-izing knowledge. She has also gained a lot of organizing experience resisting a narco-dictatorship in Honduras. She hopes to bring her intersectional lens to the already incredible CClock team and its global movement to keep fighting for transformative collective solutions. When she’s not feministing politics, she likes to talk about plants (especially orchids), read books, and go to the beach.

HEAD OF PRODUCT AND TECHNOLOGY

Greg has trained hundreds in non-violent direct action tactics. Among climate activists in NYC he’s known for spearheading direct actions involving daring climbing spectacles that spread the climate emergency message, be it scaling iconic buildings, statues, or the occasional well positioned traffic light. He played key roles in convening and guiding grassroots climate groups to pass climate emergency declarations in the first city (Hoboken, NJ), the first county (Montgomery, MD), and the largest city (NYC) to do so. Greg previously created the digital campaigns Meatlessly.org and CuomoWalkTheTalk.org. Outside of making Climate Clocks in the woodshop, you might find him playing ice hockey or pickup roller hockey in a city park--when he’s not getting into ‘good trouble’ (or training others to do so).

COMMUNICATIONS LEAD

Raul is a proud Brazilian who brings his communications skills and diversity expertise to his work as Communications Lead at Climate Clock. Raul has a Bachelor's in Journalism and also in Audiovisual Production. He has worked in the advertising industry for over seven years and has been featured in different Brazilian Film Festivals with his documentaries. In his free time, Raul enjoys traveling around Brazil, reading black authors and watching movies.

CAMPAIGN LEAD

Mahak Agrawal is an urban planner, climate scientist, and former United Nations fellow. As a Shardashish Scholar and Environmental Fellow at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Mahak earned her second master’s in public administration with a specialization in environmental science and policy. She earned her first master’s degree in urban planning from the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi, India. She is a recognized expert in the field of ESG reporting and corporate carbon management, urban sustainability, and public policy.

EAST AFRICA COORDINATOR

Pauline Owiti has learned to overcome numerous challenges. At home in her rural Siaya community she has become a community leader. Pauline grew up on a farm with a mother who was teaching science so she has an "informed" love of nature. Her climate action began when she was about 12years when she started helping to propagate tree seedlings at the church community seedbeds. Her projects at home include teaching the community on environmental issues and nutrition. On the agricultural side she is promoting organic practices and permaculture while introducing new crops in response to their changing climate.

WEST AFRICA COORDINATOR

Joseph is a passionate climate activist and community mobilizer who works to build the resilience of frontline communities to the impact of climate change. He is a trained agricultural and bioresources engineer and holds a Masters in Environmental Management. He has about 6 years’ experience in program management, community mobilization and digital organizing. He has utilized his vast experience in project management to manage the African Activists for Climate Justice Project (AACJ) and the #Vote4climatNg campaign in Nigeria amongst others. Joseph is also passionate about mentoring the next generation to be good environmental stewards in their communities and ensuring that their voices are heard. Joseph is a trained African youth climate negotiator by the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP).

ADVISOR

Michael Terungwa David is a climate and environmental rights advocate with over 10 years’ experience in mobilizing, campaigning and lobbying for climate action in Africa. Michael David is a PhD candidate in Environmental Management. He holds a masters in Renewable energy, a Master’s degree in Environmental Protection and Planning, and a degree in Agricultural Engineering with a specialization in Soil and Water Management. He also holds a post graduate certificate in Sustainable leadership from the University of Cambridge. David’s Personal mantra: Thou shall not Pollute the Earth.

PR | KIBBO KIFT AGENCY

Sam is the founder of Kibbo Kift Agency, a specialist PR and Performance agency that operates globally and works exclusively with organisations that prioritise the earth through ethical and responsible consumerism, social justice and creativity.

GLOBAL AMBASSADOR

Jerome Ringo is the Former Chairman of the National Wildlife Federation and the first African American to head a major Conservation Organization. Ringo is currently goodwill Ambassador to the Pan African Parliament and Chairman of Zoetic Global. He has traveled to Africa over 80 times to Address issues of Climate Change and tangible solutions. Personally, he has been forced to evacuate from his home on the Louisiana coast from 7 Hurricanes since 2005. He has been a part of The U.S. delegation for Climate talks since Kyoto in 1997 and is a McClusky Fellow at Yale University.

CO-TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, CHIEF HACKTIVIST

Adrian is a maker of digital goods, a tech world émigré preferring to aid movements, activists, and eccentrics when possible. Where digital goods are concerned he is foremost a fluent and broadly capable software engineer, and further an [alleged] digital artist and musician. He orchestrated the re-programming of chips from across America to make possible New York City's monumental Climate Clock within the nascent project's shoestring budget. He lives in California with a chicken and numerous portable Climate Clock prototypes.