Our Team
Enduring Earth has established four core values that our collective team places at the core of our work:
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- Trust: Transparent and honest in our work with each other and our partners.
- Responsibility: We steward resources wisely and focus on results that provide benefits to nature and communities.
- Sustainable Impact: We are respectful of each nation’s priorities, and social, cultural, and spiritual values.
- Collective Power: Only through collaboration can we achieve our ambitous goals.
Meet the Enduring Earth Hub Team
Zdenka Piskulich
Zdenka Piskulich is the Managing Director of Enduring Earth since 2021. Working with the founding organizations, Zdenka leads this ambitious collaboration to accelerate and strengthen conservation around the world through partnerships, ongoing funding, and local leadership. Prior to joining Enduring Earth, Zdenka led Forever Costa Rica and was the president of the Network of Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Funds (RedLac). Previously, she worked at The Nature Conservancy for over thirteen years as a Director for Costa Rica’s Program and as Director of the International Private Land Initiative. She also served as Executive Coordinator of the Center for Environmental Law and Resources (CEDARENA). She is a lawyer and has a master’s degree in International Development from the American University in Washington D.C.
Maurie Carr
Maurie Carr is the Deputy Director for Enduring Earth. She has nearly 15 years of experience working in international organizations, government, and the private sector. Prior to joining Enduring Earth, she worked as Engagement Manager for McKinsey & Company, supporting clients on decarbonization journeys and in the public and social sector more broadly. She holds an AB with Honors from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs and a Master of Business Administration from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
María Luisa Hernández
María Luisa Hernández is the Program Associate at Enduring Earth. She has more than 10 years of experience working in international organizations, government, private companies and NGOs. Prior to this position, María Luisa was the development coordinator at the Forever Costa Rica PFP and led the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Conservation Trust Funds. She has also worked at the United Nations University for Peace, the British Embassy in Costa Rica, Bayer and the Organization of the American States. She holds a Bachelors and Advanced Studies in International Politics and International Relations from the National University of Costa Rica and a Bachelors in Business Administration focused in Marketing from Universidad Latina. She was granted a Fulbright scholarship to carry out her Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, New York. Maria Luisa is an educator at heart and has taught courses in Nonprofit Management, Social Innovation, and Peace Education. She is fluent in Spanish, English, German, Portuguese and Italian.
Jon Miceler
Jon Miceler’s career has focused on community-based conservation in Asia with particular focus in the Himalayan region for the last 30 years. In the 1990s he worked as mountaineering guide based in Sichuan, China which led to the creation of small NGO focused on new protected area establishment in the NE Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. In 2008 Jon became Managing Director of the World Wildlife Fund’s Eastern Himalaya program. He currently works for Enduring Earth in support of Project Finance for Permanence initiatives around the world.
Laura Margison
Laura Margison is the Senior Director of Communications for Enduring Earth. She has almost 20-years international experience in communications, digital marketing, and fundraising, working in the non-governmental, non-profit, public policy, and industry sectors. Laura’s efforts to advance communications for Enduring Earth include outreach to support local to global conservation outcomes and deliver meaningful change on-the-ground. Her work includes a targeted channel approach through storytelling, media engagement, digital-first outreach, print, radio, and advertising. Before joining Enduring Earth, Laura worked at The Pew Charitable Trusts and World Wildlife Fund where she led program communications for ocean, lands, markets, and biodiversity campaigns, including 30 by 30, Breaking the Plastic Wave, and protecting tiger forests in Sumatra, Indonesia. Laura has a Master of Science from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Tyler Smith
Tyler Smith is a Fellow visiting from McKinsey & Company. He is an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and focuses on operations and sustainability in manufacturing and supply chain. He has also been a fellow at the World Economic Forum, launching and evaluating sustainability lighthouses, global operation sites at the leading edge of scaling industry 4.0 technologies and minimizing their environmental footprint. Before joining McKinsey & Company, Tyler worked at Education First, as a director overseeing educational travel programs in New England, and U.S. Navy, as an officer in Special Operations, specializing in explosive ordnance disposal and deep sea diving. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the United States Naval Academy and Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Madelina Pozas
Madelina is a Global Fellow with Enduring Earth, participating in this fellowship through partnership with McKinsey & Company. At Enduring Earth, Madelina focuses on supporting mostly strategic projects to develop the opportunities in Latin America. At McKinsey, Madelina is an Engagement Manager within the sustainability practice, focusing on decarbonization strategy, energy transition, and global conservation. Madelina has had the opportunity to work with Enduring Earth for over a year, both managing the McKinsey team supporting the alliance, and now as a fellow directly on the team. Madelina has served a variety of clients across many prominent sectors (energy, retail, automotive, logistics, non-profit, and more) on addressing pressing sustainability and climate challenges and has been part of several core research efforts at McKinsey including the global energy transition, role of methane in climate, and 1.5C pathways (with focus on reforestation potential). Outside of the workplace, Madelina is an avid hiker and paddle surfer, and loves spending time outdoors with her family of four (soon to be five!). Madelina has a Master of Environmental Engineering from the University of Southern California with a focus on air and water chemistry.
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Join our Team
Vacancy – Project Manager, Conservation Finance and Community Development: The Project Manager has strong organizational and team-building skills, can facilitate collaboration to drive accountability and best practices, and manage timelines toward the closing of large-scale conservation agreements.
Vacancy – Global Portfolio Lead:
The Global Portfolio Lead has considerable experience managing complex projects and teams, with demonstrated experience in biodiversity conservation and conservation finance, and the flexibility and attitude to transition between strategic and practical work.
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