People
Volcán Antisana, in the northern Andes in Ecuador. Photo by Scott Stone
Staff
Scott Stone
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Scott is an attorney and conservationist. Prior to founding Lookfar, Scott co-founded S2C Pacific, a climate and conservation policy consulting firm, and is currently president of its successor firm, Glencoe Strategies. He also practiced environmental law at Hunton Andrews Kurth in Washington, DC, served as the Director of Global Environmental Initiatives for nContext, and worked as a policy analyst for the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development.
Scott is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Park Trust and serves on the Board of Advisors to the Carbon Containment Lab at the Yale School of Environment. He formerly served on the board of the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation and the Technology Advisory Board of Fair Trade Certified.
Scott is a graduate of Northwestern University and Washington University School of Law. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife Julia, their two children, and the family dog Gus.
Julia Watkins
Co-Founder & Creative Director
Julia is a photographer, gardener and, author of Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020) and Gardening for Everyone: Growing Vegetables, Herbs, and More at Home (Harper Collins Harvest, 2022). Julia also runs the Instagram account @simply.living.well.
Julia studied at College of Charleston and taught at the Acadia Institute of Oceanography. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa, working with farmers to launch beekeeping projects and establish tree nurseries.
Julia earned her master’s degree at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, where she received the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Conservation Fellowship, the Alumni Association Award, and the Nicholas School of the Environment Merit Award. Julia later worked at Chemonics International, managing projects in Guinea, Nigeria, and Senegal.
Marlies Quirino Cabrita
Chief Operating Officer
Marlies originally trained as a lawyer at Leiden University in the Netherlands and began her career practicing law in Amsterdam at a Dutch law firm. She then worked in the fashion industry, establishing and managing the marketing department for an internationally renowned fashion brand. She later immersed herself in the modern and contemporary art scene in New York City while working for a charitable foundation supporting upcoming artists.
Always passionate about the environment, Marlies now devotes her time and energy to biodiversity conservation and regenerative agriculture. She is a director and the president of the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit organization that helps support the work of Fundación Jocotoco in Ecuador. She also advises Circular Investment, a Dutch impact investment firm.
Fluent in Dutch, English, and Portuguese, Marlies splits her time between the Netherlands and Portugal with her two dogs, Astor and Lucky.
Ty Harper
Director of Partnerships
A graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School, Ty worked as a public defender representing clients at risk of losing their liberty and unable to afford counsel.
Ty also was a partner at the law firm DLA Piper, where he represented clients in the United States, China, the United Kingdom, and Thailand. Ty later served as the General Counsel of Edifecs, a healthcare technology company, and as outside counsel for a renewable energy manufacturer. Ty continues to advise small- and medium-sized businesses on a variety of legal matters.
Ty spends as much time as possible outdoors, hiking, backpacking, and paddling across the Pacific Northwest. He is slowly improving at guitar and speaking Spanish. His dog, Mochi, is the best dog in the world.
Lucia Guaita
Director of Conservation
Lucia is an environmental sociologist with an MSc in International Development from Wageningen University. Over the last decade, she has lived in a range of socio-cultural settings to research what is most fascinating to her — how humans relate and interact with their surrounding ecosystems.
Since 2020, she has worked internationally with foundations and nature conservation NGOs as a grant manager, knowledge coordinator, and communicator. One of her proudest co-authored publications is Sustainable Nature Reserves: Guidelines for Privately Protected Area, a hands-on manual from practitioner to practitioner on how to create and manage nature reserves.
Lucia lives between Italy and the Netherlands and enjoys spending her free time climbing mountains and learning about local cultures and foods. Being a wild cat lover, she co-runs the podcast El Poder del Jaguar to share interdisciplinary perspectives on the role that jaguars play in indigenous, rural and urban societies in Latin American and on positive examples of coexistence.
Board of directors
Lilian Pintea
Ph.D., Vice President, Conservation Science, The Jane Goodall Institute
Samina Bharmal
Sustainability Counsel, HP
Willemijn Slingenberg-Verdegaal
Head of Climate Scenarios and Regulatory Solutions, MSCI, Inc.