Meet our Team

Enrico has specialized in raptors and birds of prey. He is one of Sicily’s few designated ecologists doing monitoring for environmental evaluation. His happy place is dangling down on steep cliffs peaking into the secret world of raptor’s nests. He is also the collective’s handyman and a wonderful partner in crime.

Totò is an ornithologist from head to toe. Together with Enrico he spends days out in the field providing solid reports on environmental evaluation. Also permaculture and agroforestry design keeps him up at night. He is a wonderful group facilitator and educator always having the perfect metaphor ready to do its magic.

Giovanni does not only feel home in the academic world of forest science, but also knows how to get his hands dirty in the mossy soils of wooden tree habitat. He loves to nerd out on GIS systems, measure tree circumferences, and dig into local ecological knowledge.

Helen combines her talent for precision, investigation and engaging narratives with her passion for nature and the great outdoors. She weaves the various threads of Collettivo’s work together in compelling storytelling on Social Media, the press and all other portals where we communicate with the world out there.

Stefano is a true multi-media wizard disguised as drone pilot, underwater filmer, documentarist, virtual reality maker, and graphic designer. He not only creates beautiful imagery, but makes the rest of the collettivo feel like true digital dinosaurs.

Noa not only manages the heavy lifting at construction sites, but makes big rewilding dreams concrete and actionable without losing an inch of boldness. Her sweet spot is somewhere between naturalistic field work and running Collettivo’s tech infrastructure. You’d usually find Noa with a camera lens or hanging somewhere on a rocky wall.

Roberto’s game is to dig deep into souls: human and non. After exploring narratives of wolves in central Italy, he found his way to our island. At Collettivo he maps out stakeholders, composes communication strategies for communities and does other anthropology stuff like counting pebbles or drilling bird nests.

Diana bridges the worlds of intercultural exchange and the black-on-white (and sometimes very red) world of finance. With a naturopath’s touch for balance, she navigates the beautiful chaos of Collettivo, keeping everyone’s head above water. Her calm, clear organisational skills make her fearless of bureaucracy – excelling even remotely from Zambia.

Irene joins as a trainee complementing her studies in natural science at the University of Palermo. She covers the full on ornithological field from setting up nestboxes (mastering the drill in arcobatic positions) to minute excell files orchestrating field data.