Meet our team

Bethany

Volunteer Member

My name is Bethany (she/her) and I'm part of the Peatland Justice team and also work on funding and project development. I've been part of RE‑PEAT since the idea was first seeded on the bus ride home from an excursion where we first learnt about these amazing ecosystems. I’m currently studying Planetary Poetics in Amsterdam, and am interested in combining artistic and scientific approaches to soils and wetlands.

Frankie

Network Coordinator, Restoration Academy Coordinator

Working groups: Communications, Restoration Academy, Peatlands and Grief, Peat Base

Hey, I am Frankie (she/her). I am interested in how to develop the kinds of care, community and imagination needed to tackle the most complex and interwoven issues of today. Outside of my work with RE‑PEAT, I am currently studying an MSc in land and water management at Wageningen University & Research because I want to learn more about the technical and social elements needed for landscape transformation. One of the reasons that I find peatland ecosystems so inspirational is that they teach us about how to give in unexpected ways. Through preserving plants in a state of semi‑decomposition, they also preserve life above the ground.

Bobbi

Strategy & Campaign Coordinator

Working groups: Communications, Peatland Justice, RE-PEAT NL, Peat Base

Hi, I am Bobbi (she/they), living in Amsterdam. I am coming from a climate activism and molecular biology background and have sunk deeper and deeper into the world of peat over the last years. I enjoy how peatlands serve as both a creative collaborator and a space of deep significance for socio‑ecological justice. I’m a passionate organiser and enjoy facilitating collaborative processes, implementing transformative governance and fostering strategic thinking. I care about building relations between RE‑PEAT and social movements in order to complement and amplify each other’s efforts. Currently, I am particularly interested in the role of peat in Dutch history.

Mari‑Liis

Volunteer Member

Hey, I am Mari‑Liis (she/her). Growing up in Estonia, I was surrounded and amazed by the beauty of peatlands. However, I only learnt about their true value and importance when I started my MSc in Environmental Science in Vienna. Not long after, I joined RE‑PEAT and I am still around! Currently, I am involved in a range of RE‑PEAT projects, including Bog Academy and Peatland Justice. Taking a bath in a bog lake in Estonia is my favourite summer activity which I often miss now living in Hungary.

Monika

Finance & Communications Coordinator

Working groups: Communications, Podcast, Peat-Fest, Bog Academy, Peat Base

Hi! I’m Monika (she/her). I’ve been part of RE-PEAT for a few years now, and it’s been such a privilege to watch the collective — and myself — grow and change. I love that my work here lets me mix creativity, storytelling, and care for the environment to make a real difference. I’m especially drawn to using art and design to spark curiosity, shift perspectives, and help people connect with peatlands not just through facts, but through feeling. Being part of a group that blends science, activism, and creativity keeps me inspired every day. Right now I’m based in Warsaw, exploring the peat landscapes of yet another country and dreaming up new ways to bring beauty and imagination into environmental work.

Lu

Volunteer Member

Hi hi! I’m Lu (they/them), a 27-year-old freak currently living in the English Midlands, and creative coordinator at RE-PEAT. I joined RE-PEAT in early 2021 when I was doing my Masters’ research on peatland disturbance and restoration in Scotland’s Flow Country, and I’ve remained obsessed with peat since then. I love bogs for their liminality, their queerness, and the mystery and archival knowledge they contain. My background is in science but I tend to explore peat through artistic practices, including illustration, print and audiovisual experience, to create fun and accessible gateways to peatlands.

Holly

Programme & Development Officer

Working groups: Communications, Restoration Academy, Peatland Justice, Peatlands and Grief, Peat Base

Hi! I'm Holly Bartley (she/her), I’m designer-researcher and documentary filmmaker based in Paris. I'm participating in the Restoration Academy project and co-developing the Peatland & Grief workshops. My peatland journey started during my master's research project on designing for aging society and neurodegenerative care. I found intriguing parallels between the narratives around time and aging, like peatlands. I feel incredibly grateful to have stumbled upon the RE-PEAT community. In this space, I can connect with caring and creative individuals, all together in a dedication to contributing to a more compassionate world.

Judith

Team Member

Working groups: Restoration Academy

Hi, I am Judith (she/her). Since last year I have been a member of RE-PEAT (juhuu!). These days I am finishing my bachelors in agricultural sciences with a thesis on the revegetation of a mined peatland in northern Finland. Through my studies and work on farms I also care much for food sovereignty and peasant empowerment and I like bringing this perspective into RE-PEAT. Recently I enjoyed spending my time in the vast and misty northern peatlands, where I did field and lab work for a research project. Besides peat-stuff, I like to bind books, knit and bake bread.

Kate

Communications Team Member

I am an environmental artist who came to RE-PEAT via my project Peat Cultures. I am on the communications working group. I value surviving wetlands for their wildness and I hope people live alongside them forever! I love how RE-PEAT works for this possibility. I got to know peatlands through hillwalking and when I heard how urgently they needed support, I began working alongside a restoration team in SW Scotland. My project took me to scientific and museum contexts in Wageningen University in the Netherlands - another country with long peatland histories.

Zara

Bog Academy Coordinator

Working groups: Bog Academy

Hi! I’m Zara (she/her). I have a deep passion for horticulture and herbal gardening. Through my work at RE-PEAT, I hope to share and expand my knowledge about sustainable plant cultivation, and to explore how this field can nurture stronger, more connected ways of community living.

Izzy

Volunteer Member

Hi, I’m Izzy (she/her). I first became interested in peatlands because my mum is from the Midlands in Ireland, which is bog country. While doing my master’s in anthropology, I became fascinated by peatlands as spaces between life and death, and wanted to learn more about their importance in Irish culture during a time of Just Transition. I carried out ethnographic research with the Abbeyleix Bog Project and discovered so much about the rich ecologies that make up a bog. My friends keep sending me bog-related content on social media — I’m always talking about peatlands!

Isis

Bog Academy Outreach Coordinator

Working groups: Bog Academy

I’m Isis (she/her). I currently study Forest and Nature Conservation in Wageningen, and get excited by all projects on the overlap of nature and art. Although I grew up surrounded by peatlands, I never truly appreciated the immense impact they have on the Dutch landscape. I got to know RE-PEAT through friends, and decided to join this community to help shift perceptions—and to be around passionate nature lovers. Currently I do a lot of the coordination work for Bog Academy, our educational project in Ireland. Hopefully, we can extend this into the Netherlands in the coming years, so I can learn to teach about peatlands in a Dutch context.

Lara

Team Member

Working groups: Peatlands & Grief

I am Lara (she/her). Since learning about peatlands and their role as climate mitigators, I’ve been engaging with them on personal, local, spiritual, and academic levels. The land I was born on—the northern German countryside—used to be covered with peatlands. My research into what they can teach us about decolonization and liberation has sparked my interest in the human–ecology around peat. I see peatlands as teachers and as portals for grief, remembrance, and empowerment. At RE-PEAT, I am currently diving more deeply into the connection between peatlands and grief.

Jamie

Volunteer Member

My name is Jamie (he/him). I first encountered peatlands repairing a boardwalk with a volunteer group at a local nature reserve. I had been there many times before, but never knew it was a peatland! Flash forward and I've just finished a year-long Master's research project on an alkaline fen in Oxford, investigating how warming interacts with historic nutrient pollution to affect decomposition rates.

Flavie

Volunteer Member

Hey, my name is Flavie (she/her), currently based in Paris. I got to hear about peatlands three years ago through RE-PEAT and was immediately captivated by their uniqueness and RE-PEAT’s creative and passionate community. My goal within RE-PEAT is to empower our members and enable emerging projects! Outside of the boggy sphere, I study law and corporate accountability, focusing on human rights and environmental impacts within supply chains. Currently, I am interested in how retailers advertise and label their peat(-free) soil products!

Ananya Jain

Volunteer Member

My name is Ananya Jain (she/her). In my time with RE-PEAT, I have worked in various capacities within the team including roles in research, project management, growth strategising, fundraising and outreach. My current involvements lie primarily within the Peatland Justice campaign and the Books ‘n’ Bogs project (Ireland). I fell in love with RE-PEAT because of its community and unique ability to deconstruct complex socio-ecological realities through the lens of peatlands. My work remains informed by my ecological and philosophical approach towards economics, which I study at the University of Oxford.

Pantea

Moss Pit Project Member

Working groups: Moss Pit

Hi, I’m Pantea (she/they), a member of the Moss Pit project for which I did the sound design and mixing. I’m learning in and inspired by the RE-PEAT community, and happy to help with small tasks in the community whenever I can. I’m passionate about wetlands and plants. My connection with peatlands has been my obsession to learn more and spend time with the plant Sundew. Outside of RE-PEAT, I work as a sound artist in Barcelona.

Moss

Writer, Researcher & Multi-Disciplinary Artist

Working groups: Newsletter, Peatlands & Grief, Deep Map

Hi! I’m Moss (ambivalent pronouns), a writer, researcher and multi-disciplinary artist. My work brings together eco-poetics, land art, natural sciences, environmental humanities and queer theory to address questions of ecological grief and more-than-human relationality in times of planetary crisis. I fell in love with bogs and peatlands while doing my master’s degree in gender studies at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and I return to boglands again and again as generous thinking partners, teachers and guides. With a background in environmental science but deeply informed by my experience as a queer, disabled and self-taught artist, I find companionship in the resistant, boundary-defying landscape of peatlands. Within RE-PEAT, I work on writing and research for the newsletter, as well as with the grief and deep map working groups, always bringing my love for editing and writing into these collective efforts.

Cisca Devereux

Volunteer

Working groups: Peatland Justice

Hi! I’m Cisca Devereux (she/her), an Irish volunteer with RE-PEAT and the Peatland Justice Campaign. I am also a consultant for the UN Environment Programme-led Global Peatlands Initiative and the Europe Representative for Youth Engaged in Wetlands. I have experience working on wetlands and peatlands initiatives such as the INTERREG Carbon Connects, Horizon Europe ReWet, and the development of the European Peatlands Initiative. I have a Master's degree in Environmental, Civil and Structural Engineering from Trinity College Dublin. And I love peatlands!

Caroline Vitzthum

Venice Agreement Project Coordinator

Working groups: Venice Agreement

My name is Caroline (she/her) and I’m an artist working across performance, film, and community practice. My work explores how art can nurture deeper relationships with land, time, and ecological memory, often in collaboration with scientists, communities, and the more-than-human world. In 2021, during a residency at the National Botanic Garden of Wales, I encountered a 19th-century herbarium of Sphagnum moss, which sparked a lasting fascination with peatlands and their cultural, ecological, and political significance. Since 2024, I have been collaborating with RE-PEAT and officially joined the team in 2025 as Project Coordinator. My role focuses on peatland education, storytelling, and public programming – creating creative and accessible ways for people to connect with these vital landscapes. Through this work, I support RE-PEAT’s mission of building more just, reciprocal, and imaginative futures for peatlands. carolinevitzthumstudio.com

Felix

Podcast team member

Working groups: Podcast

I'm an avid bog enthusiast and environmentalist currently pursuing a masters focused on raising peatland awareness and Paludiculture. I have a background in communications and marketing which I'm applying to the podcast team and the website. I’m also part of the BES (British Ecological Society) Peatland and Wetland Research Committee, spotlighting recent scientific research and raising peatland and wetland awareness.