Mrs Jessica SWEIDAN

Founder & Trustee, Synchronicity Earth

Jessica is a passionate philanthropist, creative connector, and implementer. Currently, she is focused on deepening awareness around the importance of biocultural diversity; social, environmental, and multi-species justice, and the laws that protect the Earth; and working to help embed a shift towards culture-centered conservation. She is Co-Founder of The Synchronicity Foundation, Synchronicity Earth, a UK-based charity focussed on supporting urgent, overlooked, and underfunded conservation to protect globally threatened biodiversity, and Flourishing Diversity, an initiative centered on evidencing the interrelation between cultural and biological diversity. She is also an IUCN Patron of Nature, an Honorary Conservation Fellow at ZSL, a Trustee of Wildscreen, and a Strategic Advisor for the Environmental Funders Network, Action for Conservation and Conservation Optimism. Jessica holds a degree in Philosophy from Northwestern University.