Our Team

  • Catherine Cleary

    Catherine is co-founder of Pocket Forests and has almost three decades experience as a journalist and author. She is ambitious about developing strategic partnerships in environmental action with real impacts which create a just transition to a more sustainable world. She has created several podcasts and written four books. Catherine writes a weekly column for The Irish Times, which you can find here.

  • Ashe Conrad-Jones

    Ashe is co-founder of Pocket Forests as well as a SME business owner. Ashe has extensive financial and staff management experience as the CFO of Gorilla Design. She believes deeply that the key to a sustainable future is to establish more native wildness in our cities in partnership with communities.

  • Amy van den Broek

    Amy joined Pocket Forests in 2022. She has worked at management level in social enterprises in Ireland and the non-profit and arts sector in the Netherlands for most of her career. In her spare time, Amy volunteers for Kildare Wildlife Rescue.

Board

  • Board member

    Jennifer is Global Brand Director for Baileys and Roe & Co Irish whiskey at Diageo. She is responsible for strategy, commercial, marketing and performance at both brands.

  • Board Member

    Wendy has worked for more than three decades for the European Commission and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.

  • Board member

    Marcus Collier is an Associate Professor of Sustainability Science In Trinity College Dublin. He researches and lectures in social-ecological systems, landscape ecology, novel ecosystems and co-creation/co-design of sustainability solutions.