The
MISSION
Each chapter of the League brings together a group of creatives working around a shared theme, building momentum for ideas that can shift culture and support movements on the ground. The current chapter focuses on women’s rights.
Alongside the League, Fine Acts is also exploring the intersection of gender and climate, working with artists and creatives from around the world to highlight stories and creative work that advance justice, resilience, and visibility where these issues meet.
This work is supported and guided by a group of brilliant minds (see below) whose insights help shape and strengthen the initiative.
THE TOPIC:
WOMEN & CLIMATE
Climate change is often talked about as a future risk, but it is already affecting everyday life – and its impacts aren’t equal, often hitting women and men differently.
Around the world, women are more likely to do unpaid care and housework, earn less in insecure jobs, struggle with high energy and housing costs, and be more affected by climate-related stress, health issues, and violence.
Even so, how climate change affects women’s everyday lives is mostly missing from public debate, culture, and mainstream climate stories. This makes the issue harder to understand, reduces solidarity, and slows real action.
Creative work can play a critical role in closing this awareness gap.
Stay tuned for upcoming campaigns and actions.
Strategic Council
Thomas Coombes
Founder
Hope-basedThomas Coombes (“the hope guy”) is on a mission to apply brain science to activism, so that we make compassion common sense in politics. He is the creator of hope-based, a five-shift approach he uses to help changemakers shift from reactive campaigning towards strategies based on attitude, behavior and culture change. He has spent two decades in global political communication, including roles as Head of Brand at Amnesty International and speechwriter at the European Commission.
Monica Roa
Founder & Executive Director
PuentesMonica Roa is a Colombian lawyer based in Spain with over 25 years of experience advancing social change at the intersection of law, politics, and communications. She played a pioneering role in using strategic litigation to advance abortion rights, gender justice, and human rights, training a generation of attorneys to engage strategically with the courts. In 2019, she founded Puentes, a virtual nonprofit that strengthens the narrative power of movements for democracy, human rights, and social, racial, climate, and gender justice across Latin America. Through Puentes, she works to expand radical imagination, build connections across diverse movements, and inspire active hope as a driving force for collective action and lasting transformation.
Dr. Asia Eaton
interim Executive Director
MindbridgeDr. Asia Eaton is a Professor of Psychology at Florida International University (FIU) and interim Executive Director of Mindbridge, а leading non-profit using brain and behavioral science to empower human rights defenders. Her research explores how gender intersects with identities such as race, sexual orientation, and class to affect individuals’ access to and experience with power. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, featured in outlets like the New York Times, Forbes, and BBC News, and resulted in invited talks at the White House, the U.N., Meta, Google, and universities around the globe.
Nino Ugrekhelidze
Co-Founder and Lead
Dalan FundNino Ugrekhelidze is a feminist resource justice advocate from Tbilisi, Georgia. She brings over 15 years of experience working with regional and global social justice movements and human rights philanthropy, building context-responsive and community-centered emergency and long-term grantmaking and programmatic strategies. For the past three years, Nino has dedicated her life force to seed and lead the Dalan Fund that resources intersectional movements in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central and North Asia.
Judit Ignácz
Advocacy & Communications Officer
European Roma Rights CenterJudit Ignácz is an experienced trainer, consultant, and activist. Her work focuses on topics of antiracism, human rights, intersectional feminism, and gender equality. She has published numerous articles on social justice and systemic inequalities. As a co-founder of Sheja Consulting, Judit combines her lived experiences and expertise with practical knowledge gained from international and national organizations in policy analysis, research, management, and interactive learning design.
Advisory Group
Ronda Carnegie
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Project DandelionRonda Carnegie is a global women-led climate campaign that amplifies the leadership of those most impacted by and most equipped to drive change. The campaign’s symbol, the resilient dandelion, reflects its mission: to spread regenerative ideas and actions for a just, livable future. As a former executive at The New Yorker, TED, and the Female Quotient, Ronda has focused her career on transforming brands and fostering community-driven innovation.
Peter Schwartzstein
Award-winning journalist &
authorPeter Schwartzstein is an award-winning environmental journalist, researcher, and author who writes about the connections between the environment, politics and security, with a particular focus on the climate-violence nexus. He’s spent more than a decade reporting across 30+ countries in the Middle East, Africa, and farther afield, mostly for National Geographic. He's a fellow at the Stimson Center, journalist-in-residence at the Center for Climate and Security, and a TED fellow. He is the author of ‘The Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence,’ the first from-the-ground exploration of climate’s contribution to violence, published in late 2024.
Anjan Sundaram
Acclaimed author, journalist &
academicAnjan Sundaram is an acclaimed author, journalist, and academic, described by the BBC as “one of the great reporters of our age.” Practicing “slow journalism,” he currently focuses on Central and Latin America’s ecological frontlines, documenting the struggles and resilience of environmental defenders who risk their lives to protect land, water, and biodiversity. His reporting illuminates both the human cost of ecological destruction and the courage of those standing against it. He writes regularly for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and Granta magazine.
Sonali Prasad
award-winning journalist &
authorSonali Prasad was born and raised in New Delhi, India. Her journalism – appearing in The Guardian, The Washington Post, Quartz, and Esquire Singapore – often examines the human stories at the frontlines of climate change, with particular attention to how environmental crises disproportionately impact women’s lives, labor, safety, and resilience. She has been awarded a Pulitzer Travelling Fellowship, a Global TED Fellowship, a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute of Media Innovation, the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, and the Logan Science Journalism Fellowship, among other honors. Her debut novel, Glass Bottom, which explores themes of fragility and survival through ecological and social ruptures, was published by Picador India (2024) as their “literary debut of the year.”
Farwiza Farhan
Acclaimed marine biologist &
forest conservationist Farwiza Farhan is a marine biologist and forest conservationist seeking to protect and restore the Leuser Ecosystem in Aceh, Indonesia, whose work ranges from focusing on ground level species protection to high-level advocacy and campaigning. Farhan is the chairperson of Forest, Nature and Environment Aceh Foundation (Yayasan HAkA), a grassroots organization based in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. She focuses primarily on policy and advocacy, working to increase meaningful access and deepen the involvement of women and local communities in policy matters pertaining to their environment and livelihood.
Rumaitha Al Busaidi
Prominent climate activist &
women’s rights advocateRumaitha Al Busaidi is an Omani climate activist, women’s rights advocate, radio presenter, marine scientist, entrepreneur, and footballer. She is known for empowering Arab women to step confidently into spaces long closed to them—whether on the football field, atop a volcano, or at the front lines of climate action. Rumaitha founded WomeX, a platform that equips emerging female entrepreneurs across the Arab region with essential negotiation skills. She has also brought her climate leadership to global stages, including the World Economic Forum’s Davos Agenda and TED Countdown.
Elizabeth Bagley is an interdisciplinary environmental and learning scientist with experience spanning academia, business, and the nonprofit sector. Before joining Project Drawdown she led higher education-focused climate workforce development at SEI, directed sustainability efforts at the California Academy of Sciences. Elizabeth holds joint Ph.D.s in Environment & Resources and Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she studied how video games can encourage systems thinking about complex environmental topics.
Managing Director
Project DrawdownElizabeth Bagley
Preethi Herman
Co-founder & CEO
Nguvu CollectiveElizabeth Bagley is an interdisciplinary environmental and learning scientist with experience spanning academia, business, and the nonprofit sector. Before joining Project Drawdown she led higher education-focused climate workforce development at SEI, directed sustainability efforts at the California Academy of Sciences. Elizabeth holds joint Ph.D.s in Environment & Resources and Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she studied how video games can encourage systems thinking about complex environmental topics.