Team
We're hiring.
We’re seeking to build a dynamic leadership team led by an Executive Director who
combines energy, creativity, and a get-it-done attitude with our decades of experience, relationships, and strategic thinking.
Hank Cauley
Co-Founder, Interim CEO
Hank has a mix of corporate, academic, and NGO experiences over his 35-year career. He has started or turned around seven organizations and major projects. Typically, he has worked to find common ground on social, environmental, and business issues. He thrives in situations requiring urgent and thoughtful action that create results.
Frank Hicks
Co-Founder, Principal
Frank has over 30 years of broad expertise in international development as a senior manager, board member, and consultant with leading NGOs, foundations, and impact investing funds. He is based in Costa Rica, formerly in West Africa, Asia, and the US.
Melissa Dann
Board Member




Lisa Thomas
Board Member
Lisa has over 25 years of project and operations management experience working in corporate America. She is passionate about eradicating adverse issues affecting the African American community.
Debbie Cohen
Board Member
Debbie has over 35 years of broad experience in finance, management, marketing, communications, and personnel at for-profit and nonprofit organizations and as an independent consultant and a real estate agent. Her current and past Board and other volunteer positions are consistent with her interests in environmental and social issues.
Kevin Bryan
Senior Advisor
Kevin Bryan has 20 years of experience building coalitions, developing organizational strategy, and fostering collaboration between organizations to support the growth of promising organizations and opportunities for people of color. He currently advises national organizations and coalitions as they shift their program frameworks to incorporate equity and justice.
Gina Brogi
Strategy Advisor
Lynne Manrique
Strategy Advisor


Barlin Hassan Ali
Impact Advisor



Impact Advisor
Mohamed is a civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of professional experience in energy conservation, environmental impact assessment, management, and sustainability. He has managed multimillion-dollar projects, and directed and supervised multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, analysts, and senior project managers that provided supervisory, technical support, policy and regulatory analysis to various US Government agencies, private industries, and international organizations.
Philanthropy Advisor
Elizabeth Delaney Moore
Communications Advisor
Finance Systems Advisor
Edith has 24 years of non-profit financial and operations management experience. Her specialty is in management of financial systems and in creating business processes that fit to purpose.




Hank Cauley
Co-Founder, Interim CEO
Hank has a mix of corporate, academic, and NGO experiences over his 35-year career. He has started or turned around seven organizations and major projects. Typically, he has worked to find common ground on social, environmental, and business issues. He thrives in an environment requiring urgent and thoughtful action that creates results.
Frank Hicks
Co-Founder, Principal
Frank has over 30 years of broad expertise in international development as a senior manager, board member, and consultant with leading NGOs, foundations, and impact investing funds. He is based in Costa Rica, formerly in West Africa, Asia, and the US.
Hank Cauley
Co-Founder, Interim CEO
Frank Hicks
Co-Founder, Principal
Frank has over 30 years of broad expertise in international development as a senior manager, board member, and consultant with leading NGOs, foundations, and impact investing funds. He is based in Costa Rica, formerly in West Africa, Asia, and the US.
Kevin Bryan
Managing Director - U.S. Operations
Kate Thompson
Senior Engagement Advisor
Melissa Dann
Board Member




Lisa Thomas
Board Member
Lisa has over 25 years of project and operations management experience working in corporate America. She is passionate about eradicating adverse issues affecting the African American community.
Debbie Cohen
Board Member
Gina Brogi
Strategy Advisor
Lynne Manrique
Strategy Advisor


Barlin Hassan Ali
Impact Advisor
Barlin has more than two decades of experience in dealing with international development and global international disaster response. In 2018, she received the Humanitarian Ambassador for International Women Achievers Award.



Mohamed Hassan Nur
Impact Advisor
Mohamed is a civil and environmental engineer with 30 years of professional experience in energy conservation, environmental impact assessment, management, and sustainability. He has managed multimillion-dollar projects for various US Government agencies, private industries, and international organizations.
Isabelle Blanco
Philanthropy Advisor
Elizabeth Delaney Moore
Communications Advisor
Elizabeth comes to Nature4Justice after years crafting positioning strategies in pre-IPO companies. For equally many years, she’s dedicated herself to grassroots environmental and social justice issues. She spends much of her free time translating court documents for and serving as a mentor to asylum seekers, many of whom have fled situations caused in part by climate change.
Edith Mebiama
Finance Systems Advisor
Edith has 24 years of non-profit financial and operations management experience. Her specialty is in management of financial systems and in creating business processes that fit to purpose.
Lisa Cloete
Creative Advisor
Noah Cadet