The Team
Christabel Reed: Director
Christabel Reed is the co-founder and director of Advaya, Initiative Earth & EcoResolution. Her work and rest is energised by a fascination in how we heal our relationship with ourselves, each other, our environments and the cosmos. For Christabel, we cannot separate these entwined journeys of inner and outer healing if what we envision is a world that thrives.
In 2015, Christabel and her sister Ruby founded Advaya, a transformative education platform enabling the regeneration of soil, soul and society. They then set up EcoResolution in 2019 with Cara Delevingne to access large audiences, shift dystopian visions of the future, ignite collective imagination and show that another world is possible. This led to the creation of the charity Initiative Earth in 2020. Together, they are now building a platform that will enable people all over the world to engage in ecosystem restoration and agroecology.
Christabel completed her BA in History at The University of Manchester with First Class honours and her MA in the Origins & Traditions of Yoga & Meditation at SOAS, University of London. In 2019 Christabel completed a four year Yoga Therapy training and teaches 1-1 sessions in London.
Ruby Reed: Director
Ruby Reed is a the co-founder and director of Advaya, Initiative Earth and EcoResolution. She is curator, catalyst and freediver fascinated with how we can transform our relationships with the world around us.
In 2015 Ruby co-founded Advaya, in 2019 she co-founded the educational platform EcoResolution and in 2020 co-founded the charity Initiative Earth. Ruby is a Trustee of Resurgence Trust, part of Be The Earth’s Flow Funding Network and Curator for educational content for Medicine Festival. In 2018-2019 she was part of Extinction Rebellion’s Regenerative Culture Team and co-creator of XR Rebel Retreats. Ruby previously worked for art collectors and auction houses (2009-2015) and completed MA degrees at Edinburgh University (The Body in the Renaissance), La Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Courtauld Institute in London (Countercultural Art in Brazil, 1964-1985). She facilitates workshops, speaks at events, and writes for websites and magazines. Ruby is also a yoga therapist and has been teaching yoga since 2015. She specialises in the therapeutic application of yoga and an approach specifically designed to an individual’s needs. She is also a freediver passionate about the ocean and is curious about how time in the ocean can heal deep traumas. She has lived with and learnt from different cultures around the world.
Charlotte Akers: Campaigns Manager
Charlotte Akers works on the communications, partnerships, and campaign management for EcoResolution. She is motivated by a love for nature, the power of storytelling, and the belief that collaboration and communication are integral to creating fairer, healthier, and more compassionate communities.
She is particularly interested in cultural narratives and mechanisms of power. Whilst completing a BA in English at Cambridge University, she became further interested in the significance of who gets to tell the stories, and who does not. She then completed an MSc in Environment, Politics and Globalisation at KCL, where she specialised in environmental justice and the disparity between official ‘human rights’ and declarations of progress when compared to the reality of living in working-class and marginalised communities. As well as past experience in communications and community management, she has worked as a Research Assistant, analysing case studies in sustainability, has been a Youth Worker in her hometown Leeds, a Personal Assistant at Festival de Cannes, pulled pints in London, and trained in trail conservation in California.
Wanessa Rudmer: Educational Programmes Manager
Wanessa has over fifteen years of international experience in communications, cultural and audiovisual production, social businesses and tech entrepreneurship.
Since the age of fourteen, she has been involved with grassroots and nonprofit organisations' work. She believes in the power of storytelling, education, and targeted action to address current existential threats, heal the planet, and build a prosperous future for all beings. She is especially interested in topics such as commons-based systems, alternative finance and regenerative cultures.
