Meet Our 2021 Girls Who Click Ambassadors
Cherrisse Adlawan
Cherrisse “Che” Adlawan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology with a particular interest in Marine studies. She is currently juggling a career in Marine conservation and underwater photography. Che’s favorite subject to shoot is a group of marine Gastropods called Nudibranchs. Through the lens of her camera, it is her greatest hope to teach coastal communities the importance of a healthy marine environment and to inspire them to help in the global call for coastal rehabilitation.
Emma Balunek
Emma is a recent graduate from Colorado State University with a degree in Ecosystem Science and Sustainability. She wants to build connections between people and wildlife using science communication tools like photography and storytelling that ultimately encourage more people to care about the Earth and in turn leads to a more sustainable future for humans, wildlife, and natural ecosystems. Emma is currently focused on a photo story about prairie dogs in Fort Collins.
Tamara Blazquez
Tamara Blazquez Haik is an award winning Mexican Conservation Photographer, environmental educator and IUCN-CEC member. Her ultimate goal is to raise awareness about the importance of protecting and saving nature and wildlife from disappearing from this world and to inspire people, from all backgrounds, to join the fight for life itself.
Celina Chien
Celina Chien is an intersectional environmentalist, combining her roles as a conservationist, biologist and photojournalist to defend biodiversity in the age of the Anthropocene. She uses photography to expose the ongoing assault on the natural world, rekindle love and reciprocity for nature, and ultimately galvanise people to protect our planet’s irreplaceable biodiversity.
Jo Davenport
Jo Davenport is a wildlife videographer and photographer, working freelance on projects in collaboration with non-profits. Her love for the outdoors and adventure has taken her all over the world, developing a particular fascination for remote environments and the creatures that thrive in extreme conditions. Currently working full-time as a lawyer, she is determined to turn her passion into a way of life by creating and sharing powerful, visually compelling, stories with a strong conservation message.
Alena Ebeling-Schuld
Alena Ebeling-Schuld (she/her) is a wildlife conservation geographer, photographer, illustrator, and science communicator living in coastal British Columbia, within the unceded territories of the Lkwungen-speaking peoples and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ Nations.
Stephanie Foote
Stephanie’s images shine a light on conservation issues, scientific research and human stories about our relationship with nature. She is currently based in Cambridge, UK which is also home to many international wildlife charities. Past projects have taken her to Iceland, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Lithuania, France, Kenya and The Galapagos Archipelago. In her work she transforms technical information into creative multimedia content.
Elie Gordon
Elie is a nature lover from the UK invested in fighting for social and environmental justice. Her favorite thing to do in her free time is to immerse herself in the outdoors—with or without her camera in tow. She spends many hours in hides and outside waiting for some of her favorite species. Photography is a real escape for her — she can leave her 9-5 behind for a while and focus in on the smallest details of local ecosystems. It’s a way for her to continue educating herself and others on the ecological plight of native wildlife.
Sadie Hine
Sadie is a high school student from Colorado currently living in Northern California. Growing up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, nature has always been a huge part of her life. She has been taking pictures of local wildlife since she was a kid. Her photography started mainly with owls, but quickly began to focus on a wide variety of other animals. Sadie also spends a lot of her free time hiking, whether it be over passes in the Rocky Mountains or deep within some of California’s redwood forests.
Beth Hotchkiss
Beth Hotchkiss dreams of a future in which both people and planet can thrive. Viewing her camera as a tool for change, Beth aims to share stories about our collective environment and promote a more sustainable and equitable future. Valuing community, she hopes to partner with fellow change-makers to make a lasting impact.
Chelsea Mayer
Chelsea Mayer grew up in Huntington Beach, California, and attended UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. After working on film sets, she took a job with a whale watching company as a photographer and deckhand. There she fell in love with wildlife photography, and more specifically, the rarely seen transient killer whales that sometimes pass by Southern California. In her work, Chelsea likes to show people the beauty and dignity of the wild animals that we share space with every day.
Irene Mendez Cruz
Irene is a Venezuelan-French wildlife and underwater photographer, and an aspiring filmmaker currently working as a researcher for the BBC Natural History Unit. She is passionate about the natural world, storytelling and science & conservation communication. She comes from a multicultural family of artists and has a diverse academic background, having studied Political Science and Marine & Natural History Photography.
Lea Milde
Lea Milde is a wildlife ecologist, conservationist, and self-taught wildlife and landscape photographer from Germany. She has a B.Sc. degree in Wildlife Management and is currently pursuing her M.Sc. degree in Wildlife Ecology. These conservation related studies gave her incredible chances to work with wildlife all around the world, her camera always being her loyal companion.
Angelica Mills
Angelica Mills is a travel consultant, CITW Bobirwa volunteer, conservation enthusiast and amateur photographer. In December 2015 she completed her honors in BCom Tourism Management at the University of Pretoria. She is constantly seeking ways to improve herself and take on any challenge with a smile. She has an intense passion for the African savanna, animals and nature, which goes hand in hand with her love for wildlife photography.
Lianna Nixon
Lianna Nixon is an educator and storyteller based in Boulder, Colorado. She is particularly interested in stories that explores the relationships of the natural world, wildlife, technology, and identity development as agents for change. She is currently a Master’s student at the University of Colorado Boulder: Learning Sciences and Human Development and currently working on the Multidisciplinary drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), the world’s largest and most complex central arctic research expedition to date, to create educational outreach content about the Arctic climate system.
Daphne
Daphne is a 16-year-old wildlife (and portrait) photographer from California. Currently, she is a junior in high school, and aspires to couple photography with her future career. She is drawn to all things science, especially astrophysics and animal behavioral studies, and hopes to go to college for astrophysics.
Alejandra Potter
Alejandra is from Barcelona. She was that kid who would watch wildlife documentaries instead of cartoons and always had a random animal fact to share at the most unexpected moments. She carried single-use cameras whenever she travelled with family, and despite her mother’s efforts to get her to photograph our holidays, she only aimed toward animals. It didn’t take her long to realize she could put her two passions together. If she had come to love animals through a screen, so could other people. She is thrilled to have this opportunity with GWC!
Evelyn Smalley
Traveling to Namibia at a young age instilled her love for the natural world, however hazy the memories, she realized she felt most at home outdoors. As part of her BSc Zoology degree at the University of Manchester she was fortunate enough to return to Southern Africa to research leopard populations. Although her background in science has always been aligned with my creative side, she now wants to focus all her energy into wildlife photography and filmmaking. She feels the visual medium is the most effective way to showcase the world’s natural beauty to the widest audience, ensuring its protected before it’s too late.
Aishwarya Sridhar
Aishwarya Sridhar is an award-winning wildlife filmmaker, photographer, and presenter. Her debut documentary was telecast on India’s state-owned broadcaster and has helped protect the last remaining wetlands of Mumbai. She is working towards policy level protection for wetlands in Maharashtra. She has recently completed filming the most iconic and photographed wild Bengal Tigress from the forests of Central India.
Samantha Stephens
Samantha Stephens is a visual storyteller using photography and film paired with compelling written narratives to communicate scientific research- especially when that research is relevant to conservation issues. Through her work she hopes to foster appreciation for the natural world and the people who work to understand and protect it.
Alice Sun
A science communicator, naturalist, and budding conservation storyteller, Alice is a passionate photographer based on the west coast of Canada. Her fascination with nature began at a young age, which has led her from photography, to bird conservation, to environmental science, and finally to visual storytelling. Today, with scientific knowledge and a multimedia skill set under her belt, Alice seeks to weave moving stories, foster a greater appreciation and understanding for research and nature, and encourage conservation.
Alexandra-Neri Traugot
Alexandra-Neri Traugot is a conservation photographer who photographs marine
environments, species behaviors, and pollution, in order to increase motivation to help the marine environment. She is a strong advocate for women like her learning and following their passion in photography, to encourage broadening horizons.
Kate Vylet
Kate Vylet is an underwater photographer, marine biologist, and divemaster anchored in Monterey Bay, California. Her photography and videography explores California’s underwater coast and highlights the marine life hidden below its green waves. With a background in ecology specialized to California’s kelp forest ecosystem, she focuses her photography through a lens of science to bring light to the ocean’s breathtaking beauty and incredible intricacy. Through her work Kate hopes to inspire awe and appreciation for the vibrant life found within the wet worlds of this blue planet.
Katie Waddington
Katie Waddington grew up in the South-West of France where her fascination with wildlife started. As a child, the animals she would see the most were the ones in her garden. Insects have always been her main focus as they play a key role in our ecosystems and yet are so easily overlooked.