Trustees

Susan Buckingham BA, MSc
Susan joined the Board in 2000 and was its Chair from 2001 - March 2008. She is head of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Brunel University, with a long record of teaching, research and publication in geography and Local Agenda 21, with a strong emphasis on women’s involvement. Susan is a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4’s Home Planet, an author, editor and book reviewer. Recent research has covered creative cities and environmental sustainability (2005) and the gender impact of waste management (2003). Books include Gender and the Environment (Routledge, 2000), and co-editor of Local Environmental Sustainability (Woodhead Press, Cambridge, 2003) Edited with Kate Theobald and In the Hands of Women: paradigms of citizenship (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2006 forthcoming) Edited with Geraldine Livesley. She has been involved with various research projects and conferences encouraging the involvement of citizens, especially women, in decision-making processes and promoting environmental education.

Lucy McLynn
Lucy McLynn is a partner in the solicitors' firm Bates Wells & Braithwaite London LLP, and was formerly a barrister. She practises in the area of employment and discrimination law and has advocated or represented in a number of reported cases. She has worked with the Home Office on volunteering strategy issues and is on the advisory panel of the Equal Opportunities Review. She has a young baby and is passionate about real nappies, which is why she became involved with WEN, joining the board in 2007.

Judith Martin
Judith is a building conservationist, who works for the Industrial Buildings Preservation Trust as project organiser. She has a background in architecture, environmental consultancy and has been a local councillor involved in green projects such as Farmers’ Markets. She organised the annual Salamander Festival: six days, under canvas, of theatre, music and workshops, with environmental concerns woven in. She is on the board of the local day centre for the homeless. She is currently working on plans to extend the building and to develop a recycling centre, which would also provide work and training. Judith joined WEN’s board in November 2000.

Zohra Moosa
Zohra is Senior Policy Officer Race & Gender at the Fawcett Society where she runs Seeing Double, a national campaign on the experiences and needs of ethnic minority women. She has campaigned nationally and internationally on equality, social and environmental justice and has a background in politics, the environment and international development. She joined the board in June 2007, became Secretary in September and then Vice-Chair in March 2008. She is also a trustee for Housing for Women and can be found blogging at The F Word.

Catrin Stainer
Catrin Stainer is a Chartered Accountant who has worked for many years in the music industry, now working part time as Financial Controller for Cashfac Ltd. With two young children, she was drawn to find out more about WEN after reading extensive media coverage on real nappies and cosmetics. She joined WEN in 2004, was appointed to the board in February 2005 and became Treasurer in February 2006.

Wendy Thomas
Wendy Thomas joined the board in January 2005 and became Chair in March 2008. She is a librarian who has spent much of her career working in women's information and women's history, first at Harvard University's Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and then at The Women's Library in London. She now works as Library Services Team Leader in the Information Services Unit (ISU) of the Environment Agency. Wendy has written articles and given talks on women's history and women's access to information, and brings this experience, as well as her management background, together with a lifelong commitment to environmental issues, to the board.