Our Team
Despite being founded just over a year ago, our team has grown from two co-founders to more than 30 engaged volunteers working together to achieve our mission. We are a youth-led team of researchers and advocates from across Europe, working together to help shift our society from an anthropocentric economic and legal system to one that considers planetary boundaries and encourages harmonious co-existence.
How We Work
Marathon Mentality: Realism, not idealism. Aim for a sustainable and healthy work style that will allow the team members to continue “running” in the long haul.
Systemic Change: Addressing underlying factors, not merely symptoms. This includes attention to impact, inequality, (cultural) bias, etc., that could undermine the quality of the research and public benefit.
Core Values
Public Benefit: Shared ownership of our output
Epistemic Humility: Playing devil's advocate to our perspectives
Representativeness: Constructive collaboration
Advocacy
Adele Gautier
Working on a cooperation with GACEM to create a team of researchers in Mali who would research the legislation regarding the protection of the environment and ways to improve it
Advocacy
Alessa Heidenreich
Supporting the planning and realisation of events such as the planned art exhibition and other congresses
Advocacy
Alina Friedrich
Coordinating the efforts of the Advocacy Team, providing team members with what they need to work well and solve problems whenever they come up while keeping an eye on the strategy and overall course of the Team
Research, Advocacy
Augustine Hacques
Conceptualising a more ecocentric rule of law within the EU and supporting the advocacy team
Advocacy
Eleni Balaska
Creating and managing content for YERA Hub’s social media, connecting with people and bringing our message to life online
Advocacy
Eleni Triantafyllidou-Verschuren
Cooperation with grassroots organisations, as well as aligning the goals of YERA with other legal initiatives and make it more approachable
Advocacy
Eszter Orsolya Olasz
Providing legal counsel for communication and social media team
Advocacy
Haley Huang
Content creation, social media, and website design
Former Member, Advocacy
Jared Wedge-Thomas
Networking to secure funding for YERA's ambitious and impactful projects
Advocacy
Joshua Kamer
Advocating for looking at sustainability through the lenses of both litigation and politics
Advocacy
Margaux Duillet
Turning big ideas - youth-led climate justice, bold legal innovation - into real, on-the-ground projects.
Advocacy
Nikos Athanasiou
Creating visual designs for social media engagement.
Former Member, Advocacy
Riccarda Reiner
Delivering research directly to change-makers through interdisciplinary workshops
Advocacy
Simon Handy
Advising on matters relating to artistic collaborations and exhibition organisation, as well as assist with strategy by providing an ecological, philosophical, and complex systems perspective
Advocacy
Thomas Southgate
Turning legal research into understandable content for YERA Hub's social media to help promote the cause and goal's of YERA Hub.
Advocacy
Zoe Olivia Sundergeld
Overseeing the art exhibition and talking to the different teams to realise YERA's next event
Research
Andrea Pantazi
Researching the revision of the Environmental Crime Directive
Research
Anna Hatzius Sarramona
Co-Founder & Legal Researcher
Research
Dhanya Puthucode Krishnan
Conceptualising the Rights of Nature in the EU from the standpoint of trade/investment law
Research
Gamze Kasap
Cultivating awareness by engaging in research
Research
Henrieke Bünger
Multi- and interdisciplinary angle to environmental law to address the complexity and polycentric nature of contemporary environmental issues
Research
Isabella Tamayo Mejía
Rights of nature research in geosciences
Research
Jedida Mupako
Specialising in Conceptualizing the Rights of Nature and strongly interested in the evolving theories of environmental law
Research
Juan Manuel Cedro
Expanding the possibilities offered by embracing the Rights of Nature to help promote a sustainable nature-based society
Research
Lia Gobiet
Approachable and enforceable environmental research
Research
Maria Stoikou
Combining Economics and EU Law to understand topics that afflict European unity
Research
Sky Ravenscroft
Innovative thought around solving environmental issues pressing today, pursuing new pathways to environmental protection and advocating for the actualisation of system change