Paula Alvarado is the kind of strategist organisations turn to when the work is complex, the stakes are high, and getting the communications wrong is not an option. With 25 years of experience across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, she has built communications functions inside demanding institutions, guided organisations through crisis and transition, and shaped narratives that have influenced policy, shifted funding, and amplified the voices of Indigenous peoples and frontline communities at the highest levels of international decision-making. Her practice sits at a rare intersection: deeply rooted in Indigenous rights, land governance, climate, and global health — with decades of direct partnership with Indigenous leaders and local communities — and equally fluent in the strategic and reputational needs of the institutions, foundations, and businesses that interact with those communities. She has held senior roles at the IFRC, WHO, Conservation International, and the Tenure Facility, where she served on the founding management team. She is co-creator of GroundWork: Policy Briefings for Action. Paula is Peruvian, bilingual in Spanish and English, and based in Stockholm.

Philippa Bayley trained as a neuroscientist at Cambridge and UCL and spent nearly a decade in research before moving into a practice centred on engagement, communication, and the relationship between people and the living world. As manager of the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol — one of the UK's leading environmental research institutes — she built her expertise in translating complex science into public understanding and policy relevance. She now works at the intersection of Indigenous peoples' engagement and international climate policy, currently as a CLUA and European Climate Foundation-funded consultant supporting Indigenous organisations and their allies to engage with global climate processes. She is co-founder of Understory, an initiative helping decision-makers and advocates build dialogue across deep political and cultural divides on climate and nature. Her creative projects — including Living-Language-Land, a global exploration of how language connects us to the natural world — have reached audiences worldwide. She is an accredited coach with the International Coaching Federation and runs a private practice in Bristol, UK.

Sandra McGuire has spent over four decades at the intersection of science, journalism, and strategic communications — and that unusual combination gives her a quality rare in this field: she understands both the evidence and the story, and knows precisely where they diverge. Her institutional career spans some of the most demanding communications environments in international development. She served as Director of Communication and Special Advisor at IFAD in Rome, Chief Public Information Officer for the UN mission in Timor-Leste, Communication Team Leader for the EU FLEGT and EU REDD facilities, and Director of Information Services at CIFOR. She has also worked directly with the Rights and Resources Initiative and the Tenure Facility on land rights communications. She began her career as a biologist, moved into journalism, and built a communications practice that now spans climate, environment, land rights, health, gender, and peacebuilding. She is a strategic thinker, a skilled writer and editor, and a designer of communication approaches that hold complexity without losing clarity. She is based in Canada and works globally.

Kathleen Anderson de Miranda works at the intersection of language, culture, and communication — helping individuals and teams find the clarity and confidence to be understood across difference. With a background spanning corporate communications, intercultural consulting, and academia, and a PhD in French and Francophone Cultural Studies, she brings an unusually deep understanding of how language shapes meaning and how meaning shifts across cultural contexts. Her work with Seeds for Change draws on this expertise in intercultural communication, editorial strategy, and the coaching of professionals navigating complex, multilingual environments. She has a particular gift for the kind of careful listening that surfaces what an organisation is actually trying to say — and for helping it say it with precision. She is based in Uppsala, Sweden.

Isabel Coello is an award-winning journalist and communications specialist with over two decades of experience reporting from some of the world's most demanding environments. As East Africa correspondent for EFE — based in Nairobi and covering conflict, public health, humanitarian crises, and environmental issues across the continent — and as Regional Information Officer for DG ECHO in both West and Central Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean, she built a practice grounded in the realities of what communication actually does under pressure. In 2025, her independent podcast La Casa Grande — a narrative non-fiction investigation into intimate partner violence — won the Ortega y Gasset Prize, Spain's most prestigious journalism award, as well as the Ondas Global Podcast Award for Best Script and the Premio de Periodismo contra la Violencia de Género. She was also a finalist for the Premio Gabo 2025. She works in Spanish and English across print, radio, television, and podcast, and brings to every engagement a journalist's insistence on what is true and a strategist's understanding of what will land.

Malini Morzaria has spent nearly three decades working in communications at the edge of crisis — in conflict zones, humanitarian emergencies, and politically volatile environments where the stakes of getting it wrong are immediate and real. She began her career at Greenpeace as International Press Officer, moved to MSF where she served as Regional Information Officer and Humanitarian Affairs Officer for Sudan, and went on to UNICEF as Emergency Communications Officer and campaigner. She spent seven years at DG ECHO as Regional Information Officer across South Asia and Central, East, and Southern Africa, and has since worked with the Centre for Humanitarian Change, Lumos, and the Tenure Facility. Her languages — English, French, Swahili, Hindi, Gujarati — reflect the range of contexts she has operated in. She is a skilled writer, editor, and multimedia producer, and brings to Seeds for Change a discipline built across decades: knowing what to say, what not to say, and why that distinction matters.