Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International, working nationally and internationally with grassroots and frontline women leaders, policy-makers, and diverse coalitions to build women’s leadership, climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralised, democratised clean energy future. Osprey actively leads WECAN International’s projects — from various training and work to shift the narrative on climate justice using a feminist lens, to engagements at United Nations climate conferences — from frontline delegations, to campaigns such as the ‘Women for Forests’ program. Osprey is honored to serve on the Executive Committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN), and has been a core organiser of various International Rights of Nature Tribunals. She has served on the board of the Praxis Peace Institute and on the Steering Committee for the UN Women’s Major Group for the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Awards include the National Women’s History Project Honoree, Taking The Lead To Save Our Planet, the Woman Of The Year Outstanding Achievement Award from the California Federation Of Business And Professional Women, and the Be the Dream Lifetime Achievement award. Osprey’s writing has been featured in publications including The Guardian, Common Dreams, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, OpenDemocracy, and EcoWatch, and she is the author of the award-winning book, “Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature”, and a new book available in January 2024, “The Story is in our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis.”