Charlie has volunteered with the AYCC since the start of 2009, when she led a 50-person delegation of Canberrans to the AYCC’s first ever Powershift. Since then she founded and coordinated the AYCC’s ACT branch, co-coordinated the AYCC’s delegation to the Copenhagen climate talks and represented Australian youth at the Durban climate talks last year. [...]
Ellen Sandell – National Director
Ellen was recently recognised as Melbourne’s leading environmentalist, winning the Melbourne Awards for Individual Contribution to the Environment 2009 and was featured in The Age Melbourne Magazine as one of the top 100 influential Melburnians of 2009. She was previously the Environment Officer in the University of Melbourne Student Union, leading a successful campaign to [...]
Kirsty Albion – Campaign Manager
Kirsty Albion is AYCC’s Campaign Manager and is also a team member of Project Survival Pacific. Through Project Survival Pacific, she has had the opportunity to work with youth in Fiji, to help start a Pacific Youth Climate movement. A strong believer that education and inspiration are key to creating the social change we require, [...]
Jem Bamford – Director of Operations
Jem Bamford is AYCC’s Director of Operations, and is responsible for the internal operations of AYCC. Jem has volunteered as one of three National Grassroots Co-ordinators for the past two years, co-managing AYCC’s 300-strong volunteer network. Prior to taking up the position of Director of Operations, in 2011 Jem was running ANTaR Victoria and its [...]
Gemma Borgo-Caratti – Business Development Manager
Gemma is AYCC’s new Business Development Manager. She has a huge passion for teaching others about sustainability and climate action, particularly representing those affected by climate change and the protection of the Antarctic. From the Sydney suburb of Cammeray, she spent 2011 as the NSW State Coordinator and has been involved in AYCC since 2010. [...]
Rufus Coffield-Feith – Grassroots Campaigner
Rufus is an avid cyclist and loves swimming in the ocean, especially in Winter. Living in India as a child, and having seen parts of the world seriously impacted by climate change he knows we have to act urgently. Before joining the national team, Rufus spent 2 years founding and setting-up the Victorian Branch of [...]
Lily Weinberg – Online Campaigner
Lily is AYCC’s online campaigner. She grew up in White Mountains of New Hampshire in the USA. After coming to Australia to do her Masters of Environment at Melbourne University, she worked as the Fundraising Officer at Environment Victoria and a research assistant at the Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research. She comes to [...]
Jane Stabb – Policy Director
Jane is AYCC’s National Policy Director, and is also the team leader for AYCC’s Policy Advocacy Team. She has completed a Master of Environmental Policy and a BSc (Hons, Geography). Her focus is climate policy, and has previously worked as a Policy Advisor and Researcher for Climate Alliance, advising the business community on issues associated [...]
