Jessica Sweidan

About Jessica Sweidan

Founding Trustee

Jessica is a creative, natural connector. She draws on her personal experience in philanthropy to encourage others to reimagine how they can more effectively support those on the frontlines of environmental defence.

Her deep understanding of the importance of bio-cultural conservation and its crucial role in ensuring a healthy future has guided her philanthropic work.

As a strategic convenor, she organises fora to ensure that the key voices needed to inform important discussions on our collective futures are present together and in productive dialogues.

Jessica’s philanthropic journey began over 25 years ago when she formed a partnership with Adam Sweidan. With the creation of The Synchronicity Foundation, she oversaw donations to a range of projects that addressed social and economic justice; education, children’s welfare, and the arts; healthcare, poverty alleviation, and the refugee crisis; and conservation.

Synchronicity Earth, a UK-based charity, launched in November 2009 as their focus shifted to global biodiversity, creating an organisation to leverage their interest and support, to address urgent, overlooked, and underfunded conservation.

More recently, Jessica co-founded Flourishing Diversity, a network initiative centred on uplifting, aligning with, and evidencing the interrelation between cultural and biological diversity.

Jessica has been an International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Patron of Nature since 2012, helping to raise the visibility of global conservation needs worldwide, while championing inclusive, rights-based practice.

Jessica is also Chair of Synchronicity Earth USA (501c3), an Honorary Conservation Fellow at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), on the Board of Trustees of Wildscreen, and a Strategic Advisor for the Environmental Funders Network (EFN), Action for Conservation, and Conservation Optimism. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Northwestern University.

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Jessica Sweidan

Jessica Sweidan

Founding Trustee
Flourishing Diversity
Jessica is a creative, natural connector. She draws on her personal experience in philanthropy to encourage others to reimagine how they can more effectively support those on the frontlines of environmental defence. Her deep understanding of the importance of bio-cultural conservation and its crucial role in ensuring a healthy future have guided her philanthropic work. As a strategic convenor, she organises fora to ensure that the key voices needed to inform important discussions on our collective futures are present together and in productive dialogues. Jessica’s philanthropic journey began over 25 years ago when she formed a partnership with Adam Sweidan. With the creation of The Synchronicity Foundation, she oversaw donations to a range of projects that addressed social and economic justice; education, children’s welfare, and the arts; healthcare, poverty alleviation, and the refugee crisis; and conservation. Synchronicity Earth, a UK-based charity, launched in November 2009 as their focus shifted to global biodiversity, creating an organisation to leverage their interest and support, to address urgent, overlooked, and underfunded conservation. More recently, Jessica co-founded Flourishing Diversity, a network initiative centred on uplifting, aligning with, and evidencing the interrelation between cultural and biological diversity. Jessica has been an International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Patron of Nature since 2012, helping to raise the visibility of global conservation needs worldwide, while championing inclusive, rights-based practice. Jessica is also Chair of Synchronicity Earth USA (501c3), an Honorary Conservation Fellow at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), on the Board of Trustees of Wildscreen, and a Strategic Advisor for the Environmental Funders Network (EFN), Action for Conservation and Conservation Optimism. Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Northwestern University.
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Towards a flourishing future

As we approach the end of 2022, our Co-Founder Jessica Sweidan gives her thoughts on a year of growth and progress for Synchronicity Earth. Jessica Sweidan with Swetha Stotra Bhashyam (Global Youth Biodiversity Network) and Synchronicity Earth's Félix Feider I return from the CBD (Biodiversity) COP15 in [...]

By |2022-12-21T17:54:51+00:00December 21st, 2022|Flourishing Diversity, News, Partners, Relationships|Comments Off on Towards a flourishing future

What the hell is water?

On the week of Synchronicity Earth’s tenth anniversary, Founder Jessica Sweidan reflects on the cultural shifts toward conservation we have seen in the past decade. Our work on the ground with people, in places where biodiversity is rich and often, the most threatened, is the primary focus of the day [...]

By |2019-11-11T16:40:08+00:00November 11th, 2019|Art, Biophilia, Culture, Deeper Thinking, Synchronicity|Comments Off on What the hell is water?

The Role of Philanthropy

There has been a lot of discussion in the media of late about the value and role of philanthropy. Is it well-directed? Can it have impact? If a key purpose of philanthropy is to find solutions for some of the most complicated problems of our time, will it ever be enough? [...]

By |2019-08-15T09:21:05+00:00February 26th, 2019|Conservation, Funding, Fundraising, Philanthropy|Comments Off on The Role of Philanthropy

Synchronicity Earth Deeper Thinking Series

“Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.”  - Martin Heidegger We want nature conservation to become mainstream. By fostering an understanding of our impact on the natural world, the scale and causes of biodiversity loss, and how this [...]

By |2020-07-17T08:09:44+00:00July 10th, 2018|Biodiversity, Deeper Thinking, Events, In-Depth, People and Wildlife, Synchronicity Earth Events|Comments Off on Synchronicity Earth Deeper Thinking Series

Human Nature: Thinking about culture, values and the environment

The Role of Culture in Getting Us Into, and Out of, the Environmental Crisis We Face The first event in the Synchronicity Earth Deeper Thinking Series was so popular, we had to find a bigger venue. This was enormously encouraging, suggesting to us that our (small) community is ready to dig deep. [...]

By |2018-07-12T14:53:48+00:00July 10th, 2018|Deeper Thinking, Events, In-Depth, People and Wildlife, Sustainable Living, Synchronicity Earth Events|Comments Off on Human Nature: Thinking about culture, values and the environment
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