ABOUT CSAFRICA / CORE MEMBERS
+ Core Members
Anne Goeke, Earth Rights Institute
Barry Leneman, Necessity Housing
Kristen Kosinski, The Samburu Project
Lauren Segal, NextAid
Stephan McGuire, Tree Media Group, President CSAfrica
Scott Fifer, Tunahaki Foundation
Gabriel Avenna, NextAid and Green Ambassadors
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ANNIE GOEKE is a United Nations NGO delegate, and co-Founder and co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, a non-profit organization initiating programs to address poverty and improve the quality of life in distressed communities worldwide. She is a community activist and author, was a leader in the Greens and Peace movement worldwide, co-founded an international peace organization, taught educators on peace building, initiated a new international program for the certification for sustainable development, and worked on a TV series 'EcoAnnie'.
BARRY LENEMAN is the Founder and President of Necessity Housing, a non-profit organization providing education required for building economically and environmentally sustainable villages. |He is a post graduate in Education at UCLA, President of Integrated Commercial Contractors, founder of a Zero-Waste program for LAUSD and co-founder of the social action middle school Topanga Mountain School in Los Angeles. He is currently working in South Africa on sustainable village projects and presenting his work at Housing Conferences.
KRISTEN KOSINSKI is the Founder and Executive Director of The Samburu Project, a non-profit organization which provides clean drinking water to communities in Samburu, Kenya, through a well drilling initiative. Prior to launching the non-profit, she was an executive at Paramount Network Television in Hollywood. Upon graduating from Pennsylvania State University, she taught elementary school in Houston and Los Angeles through Teach for America.
LAUREN SEGAL is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of NextAid, a Los Angeles-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing sustainable solutions for children in Africa orphaned by AIDS. NextAid utilizes music, youth culture, and technology to raise awareness and funds for its pilot project: the building of a sustainable children's village and community center in Dennilton, South Africa, which broke ground in July 2005. Spearheading NextAid's many activities, she has become seasoned in project management, event production, organization management, staff/volunteer management, development, and public relations.
STEPHAN MCGUIRE is a film Director and Producer with Tree Media for 8 years. His focus has been raising awareness of man's ecological impact. He has produced projects with Leonardo DiCaprio, Woody Harrelson, Council on Foreign Relations and Global Green. He is a certified permaculture teacher having studied sustainable, earth restorative farming and living practices in Hawaii and Costa Rica.
SCOTT FIFER is the Founder and Executive Director of the TunaHAKI Foundation, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to sustainable orphan care. TunaHAKI's pilot project is the creation of a green, arts-based child centre in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. He is a Hollywood film and T.V. writer and was formally a New York City tax attorney and a U.S. Senate aide.
GABRIEL AVENNA does freelance consultation for sustainable living solutions, teaches organic gardening and mentors the Green Ambassadors at Environmental Charter High School in Lawndale, CA. Prior to graduating from UCLA, he lived in Indonesia for two separate years where he gained a unique and tolerant understanding of differences between Eastern and Western cultures. |
"In the world there is a new collective force of people mobilising around the issue of peace but linking it to the need to protect the environment.
But we must assert our collective vision and responsibility to shape that peace not only for our country but also for the whole of Africa." 1995
Wangari Maathai
2004 Nobel Peace Prize
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