Flying the nest…

It is with sadness, but also pride and our full support that we wish Katy Scholfield well in her new role at Arcus Foundation – a great friend and partner of Synchronicity Earth – where Katy is taking up a new position as Director of Strategic Grantmaking for the Great Apes and Gibbons Programme. While we will all miss Katy greatly, we are delighted to know that she will be bringing her depth of knowledge and experience to bear on Arcus Foundation’s mission to conserve Earth’s most threatened apes, great and small.

As Katy moves on to a new chapter in her career, she leaves behind a profound and lasting legacy at Synchronicity Earth. Katy has been a driving force behind Synchronicity Earth’s mission and impact since the organisation was founded over 11 years ago. She has played a pivotal role in developing Synchronicity Earth, steering our course as we identified overlooked and underfunded conservation challenges not getting the attention and resources they so urgently needed.

Katy developed our Congo Basin Programme from an initial idea to a successful, multi-funder programme helping to lead the way in its strategic support for the communities and organisations working to protect the extraordinarily biodiverse yet neglected forests of the Congo Basin. For many years, Katy has championed Indigenous Peoples’ rights, biocultural diversity, food sovereignty and land rights, a process which has recently culminated in the launch of our new Biocultural Diversity Programme (formerly the Flourishing Diversity Programme). Along with so much else she has brought to Synchronicity Earth, by laying such solid foundations for these two programm