Magic, Mischief and Mind Bombs

Brian's stories include stopping a nuclear weapons test in the Nevada Desert, sailing to Iceland to save whales, living on an olive farm in Italy and an embarrassing fall, as a trainee pilot, from a hot air balloon. In 35 years at Greenpeace he bounced from box to box in the organogram: from door-to-door canvasser to campaigner to communications director to fundraiser, deck hand, digital pioneer, action coordinator, and story teller. He remains an unapologetic believer in peace, love, and understanding.

Tommy's stories include breaking the world record for the biggest consecutive striptease, disrupting Milan Fashion Week with some beautiful trouble, choosing poems over jumpers to keep him warm in a forest in Devon, and a magical moment with a fox. He is a poet, artist, and fountain of ideas. During his time with Greenpeace he led a pirate band of communicators to create a new organisational story, was Creative Director of the global Detox Campaign, and still made it home in time for tea and crumpets.

Iris is a graphic designer, illustrator and digital ninja. She uses a wide range of media and techniques including paper, canvas, murals, oil, watercolour, pen and pencil and well as digital media/social media. Iris spent her youth unleashing creativity at either the piano or the drawing table. She studied at the Royal Atheneum of Fine Arts and later completed an MBA in Graphic Design and Web Design at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium. When she started to travel she began reintroducing illustration into her work, drawing rather than taking pictures of her adventures. In 2010 she did her first solo-exhibition of illustration work at the 't Ey culture club, in Belgium. At the moment she lives between Canada and Chile. She enjoys making a living out of the thing she loves doing most and believes a drawing a day keeps the doctor away.

Lucy was with communications consulting firm eatbigfish when she brought her talents as a professional facilitator, improvisational actress, and puppeteer to the task of helping craft the Greenpeace Story with Dancing Fox founders Tommy Crawford and Brian Fitzgerald. She holds degrees from Oxford University and has been on learning adventures at Embercombe and Findhorn. Her other talents include singing and cold-water swimming. Great bookstores make her happy. She lives in London with a tiny toddling human being.

Whether planning an event or proofreading a book, Maeve is an enthusiastic organiser, of people, places, and things. A trans-Atlantic child with a passion for conservation, she grew up with one foot in California's Mojave Desert and the other in the chilly waters of the Irish Sea. She received her Masters in English Literature from University College Cork in Ireland before joining the Communications team at Greenpeace International in Amsterdam. Since then, Maeve has worked with a variety of NGOs and corporations as a media consultant, event planner, project manager, and a Getting Stuff Done-r. When she's not behind her computer working or writing, you'll generally find her in the local park with a science fiction novel, admiring other people's dogs.