The Board of Trustees is drawn from a wide range of backgrounds including the media, anthropology and academia.
Founder/Chair
Alan Ereira is a Professor of Practice at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. He is the producer/director of two documentary films with the Kogi, the author of a book about the making of the first film and the founder of the Trust.
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Board Member
Luci Attala is an award-winning anthropologist who received her PhD from Exeter University. Her ethnographic work in Kenya, Spain and Wales attends to how water’s physical behaviours actively shape people’s lives. Luci’s work counters the environmental violence and domination that human exceptionalist perspectives produce by providing an alternative eco-sensitive lens with which to view the other-than-human agents we all live with. She co-edits the Materialities in Archaeology and Anthropology series with University of Wales Press.
Board Member
Felicity Nock accompanied Alan Ereira on his exploratory visit to the Sierra Nevada and assisted in the production of ‘From the Heart of the World’. Inspired by the Kogi message, she joined the Trust at its foundation. Felicity has travelled extensively in Latin America and recently visited the Kogi in Colombia with the Trust.
Board Member
Colombian-German anthropologist Falk Parra Witte obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge based on long-term fieldwork on the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. His research seeks better understanding of Kogi ecology as a complex way of being and knowing organised by life-giving cosmological principles. Falk hopes that communication and collaboration between indigenous and scientific knowledge can encourage sounder ecological dispositions.
Trustee
Barbara T. Hoffman is a pre-eminent arts, cultural heritage and cultural institution lawyer in New York City. She is a former Chair of the International Bar Association Committee on Art, Cultural Institutions and Heritage Law and the Chair of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Art Law, and was the first woman associate professor of law at Seattle University School of Law (formerly UPS).
Trustee
Jean-Paul is a London based film producer who worked with Alan on ALUNA. Having been inspired by the message of the Kogi he looks to incorporate environmental, indigenous and socially aware values in the films he is making today.
Patron
Wade Davis is an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. He has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.” In recent years his work has taken him from East Africa to the high Arctic of Nunuvut and Greenland.
Patron
With a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Cambridge, he started his career working as an anthropologist on ethnographic films for the BBC. Films: “The Shaman and his Apprentice” based on his own fieldwork with a tribe of the Peruvian Amazon. He was also involved with the making of “From the Heart of the World”.
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