About Us

Annabel Koven – Mentor

Annabel Koven, BSc Enviro Sci Cand (Brown), is an Ambassador for the US Coalition on Sustainability, Engagement Officer for the Democratising Education for Global Sustainability and Justice programme at the University of Cambridge, and President of Brown Sustainable Business Society hosting lecture series, consulting projects and competitions.

Previously, she worked with the Billion Oyster Project, an educational nonprofit based in New York City, leading a camp to educate children on Long Island Sound ecosystem challenges. She has been awarded an undergraduate visiting scholarship at the University of Cambridge, and interned with the Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Collaboratory at the Kennedy School, Harvard University, and has coordinated events and fundraising for the National Rowing Foundation.

Natalia Obloj – Senior Editor

Natalia Obloj is a student at St Paul’s Girls’ School (SPGS) in London with a keen interest in the science and policy of sustainability. At SPGS, she runs the Chemistry and Sustainability Club, showcasing how chemistry research can lead to sustainable innovations and is an engaged SPGS Environment Action Committee (SPEAC) member. Natalia co-leads the SPGS team competing in the Davidson Inventors Challenge at the University of Cambridge, designing a sustainable paint that can remove emissions from the air (SDGs 3 health and 11 sustainable cities). She is a Councillor of the Global Youth Council for Science, Law and Sustainability, and has been involved with The Children’s Board, a San Francisco based consultancy, advising senior executives at major energy companies on the next generation’s views on energy transition, and worked in a bioengineering lab on climate-resistant and disease-resistant banana crops. With the support of Whitley Fund for Nature, Natalia has started collaborating with a prominent Colombian conservationist and indigenous youth, sharing perspectives on nature and climate change. 

Rehema Kibugi – Senior Editor

Rehema Kibugi is a gold award-winning Child Author in the UN Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative. Her story ‘The Children Who Saved the Mangroves’ speaks about the importance of mangrove forests. In her story, as well as her advocacy and writing, Rehema hopes to inspire other children in Kenya, Africa, and further to speak about important matters through stories for even more children to read and enjoy. Rehema is passionate about writing, and enjoys playing piano and learning about history. She lives with her family in Nairobi, Kenya.

James Bonsall – Junior Editor

James Bonsall is a keen geographer and biologist as well as an academic scholar in year 11 at Winchester College. With a keen passion for biodiversity, nature conservation and restoration, he has worked with the Chiltern Rangers caring for ancient woodland and on local projects restoring endangered chalk grassland as well as wetland and chalk stream habitats around Winchester. Inside school, he is an enthusiastic member of the school natural history society and an avid gardener who runs the College gardening society. He loves being outdoors: hiking, photographing and enjoying the natural environment. He has a particular love for the rare temperate Atlantic rainforest and its lichens and bryophytes.

Katie Hensman – Junior Editor

Katie is a student at the Perse Upper in Cambridge, with a particular interest in Physics, Philosophy, and ethics. Katie is passionate about the interplay between science and ethics leading to policy decisions. Katie has therefore attended various legal talks and programs, which have given her an insight into this area. At school Katie is a member of a science partnership programme, where she teams up with local primary schools, and helps teach young students about the scientific problems of today’s world. Furthermore, this summer Katie is looking forward to being part of a program lead by Diamond Light Source, learning about how synchrotrons can be used in cutting edge research, including in fields such as environmental science. Aside from academics, Katie enjoys playing the flute but the majority of her extra curricular time is spent playing hockey, and Katie is currently in discussions with US college coaches about potential scholarships.

Kourosh Moghadam – Junior Editor

Kourosh Moghadam is a student at Winchester College with a strong passion for geography, economics, and German. He has actively contributed to sustainability initiatives, including a rewilding project where he planted wildflower meadows and trees. This summer, he will work at Worthy Earth, a regenerative farm in Hampshire, and potentially at LiveEO, a company leveraging satellite imagery and AI for real-time infrastructure monitoring to enhance safety and climate resilience. Beyond academics, Kourosh volunteers weekly with the Alsama Project, teaching English to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. As Social Media Manager of the Sustainability Society, he initiated and manages the podcast Between a Rock and a Green Place. He also co-developed the School Sustainability Ranking (SSR) to help schools measure and reduce their environmental impact. Additionally, he is a member of the UN C&O Association, contributing to a youth statement on climate resilience. He focuses on developing strategies to create ecosystems within urban environments to enhance biodiversity and sustainability.

Carlos Andrés Olivera Caballeros – Senior Editor

Carlos Andrés Olivera Caballero is a law student and youth leader from Santa Cruz, Bolivia, focused on indigenous rights, sustainable development, and global education. He is the founder of Bookcubers and Gengo Academy, initiatives that provide education to underprivileged communities. Carlos also serves as Deputy Director of the Legal Area at the Departmental Youth Council of Santa Cruz.

Rehema Kibugi – Senior Editor & Outreach Coordinator

Rehema Kibugi is a gold award-winning Child Author in the UN Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative. Her story ‘The Children Who Saved the Mangroves’ speaks about the importance of mangrove forests. In her story, as well as her advocacy and writing, Rehema hopes to inspire other children in Kenya, Africa, and further to speak about important matters through stories for even more children to read and enjoy. Rehema is passionate about writing, and enjoys playing piano and learning about history. She lives with her family in Nairobi, Kenya.

Saira Thomas – Junior Editor

Saira Thomas is a fourteen-year-old author and sustainability advocate from Cambridge International School, Dubai. Her major works include The Green Warrior (First place, VOFG Story Writing Competition), The Adventures of Alko Batterio (Environmental Excellence School Award 2021), and Fruit of Endurance (Lune Spark Anthology). Elected Youth Ambassador for the Goals Project 2024, she is a passionate vegetarian and lover of nature and animals.

Nico Roman Cordonier Gehring – Junior Editor

Nico Roman is an award-winning young author whose stories are published in the Luna Spark anthologies (winning first place in the world for 2022). He is editor of the blog, nicosnaturalworld.org and a founding co-chair of Cambridge Schools Eco-Council. He is also a national Rotary Young Environmentalist Award laureate for the local ‘Heron Project’ to protect the Cambridgeshire fenlands and fight climate change.

Jona Cordonier Gehring – Senior Editor

Jona David Cordonier Gehring is senior editor, and a student at Winchester College in the UK where he is active in the maths, science and sustainability societies. He is an award-winning North American and European Child Author of four books with the United Nations and Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative. He’s won several awards for maths, science, debating and the model UN, and his young writers contest stories are also published by Lune Spark. He was a founder of the Cambridge School Eco Council and the King’s College School Eco-Society and co-led a network of youth stranded by the global COVID-19 pandemic to host a series of online tutorials on Science, Law and Sustainability reaching over 800 youth worldwide. He enjoys reading science fiction, rowing and canoeing, travelling, he plays the flute, and he is fascinated by obscure mathematics, chemistry, physics and protecting our planet.

Portia Garnons-Williams – Senior Editor

Portia Garnons-Williams is a senior editor, and a student at Ottawa-Carleton Virtual Secondary School. She is a passionate advocate for Indigenous rights, having partnered with I Love First Peoples charity to raise awareness from and raise funds for Indigenous children living in Northern Canada. With her passion for sustainability and her strong Indigenous identity, Portia blends Indigenous knowledge and culture with sustainable practices. Through her academic research and volunteerism, Portia brings to light concerns about climate change and injustice against Indigenous. Portia’s other interests include musical theatre, tennis, and videography.

Nico Roman Cordonier Gehring – Junior Editor

Nico Roman Cordonier Gehring is a junior editor, and a student in King’s College School Cambridge, UK. As a UN Child Ambassador for the SDGs, he is working to help protect nature and the rights of future generations globally. He edits Nico’s Natural World, a youth blog, hosts online Eco-Seminar mini-series about the SDGs, and helps to organise Cambridge’s climate-strikes. His stories have been published by Lune Spark winning first place worldwide in 2021, his KCS ‘heron team’ won the 2021 UK Young Environmentalist of the Year award, and he has starred in several drama productions in the UK and Canada.

Thomas Langford – Junior Editor

Thomas Langford is a junior editor and a student at King’s College School Cambridge, UK. Having lived in France until the age of 8, Thomas is bilingual and has greatly benefitted from both the French and English culture, giving him an openness of spirit and a tolerance, acceptance and fascination for different cultures. Thomas is a councillor of the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council and a passionate advocate for the conservation of our planet. Thomas was a member of the Heron team, national winners of the Rotary Club Young Environmentalist Competition in 2021 and was a guest speaker at an online Eco-Seminar mini-series about the SDGs. Thomas attends Cambridge’s climate-strikes to raise awareness about the climate emergency and is a founding member of the environmental action group in his village, drawing together the experience and enthusiasm of local adults and children to make his village carbon neutral. Thomas loves photography, to increase his languages, to swim, to read (especially mythology from around the world), to bake, to destroy his family at monopoly and to play with and walk his ever-increasing pack of dogs. Thomas finds the world’s inaction on the injustices of climate change and world poverty incomprehensible and stands ready to fight to make the world a better place

Anisa Daniel-Oniko – Journalist

Anisa Daniel-Oniko lives in Lagos, Nigeria, with her family. She is a writer and an ardent reader. She wrote her debut book, “Double ‘A ’For Adventure”, at the age of ten, which follows the adventures of twin girls who find themselves on an adventurous hunt.

It went on to make the long list for the Nigeria Prize for literature, the largest literature prize in Africa. This made her the youngest person to be on the long list for the Prize, as it is typically an adult competition. Her second book, Further in Florien, was released in August of 2021.

Anisa is intensely dedicated to the sustainable development goals, especially life on land, life underwater, and gender equality. She is also passionate about her writing and eagerly looks forward to the day when she sees her characters find loving places in the hearts, homes, and libraries of children (and adults!) all over the world. Her dream is to help build a world of safety, sustainability, and tolerance, and for her life to be full of adventures and escapades that would rival those found in her stories.