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.
Marlies Quirino Cabrita
Chief Operating Officer
Marlies is the Chief Operating Officer for Lookfar, where she leads operational strategies to support biodiversity conservation and regenerative agriculture initiatives.
With a background in law from Leiden University and experience in law, marketing, and the arts, she brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her work. Marlies serves as a strategic advisor to the Irene M. Staehelin Foundation, guiding its philanthropic efforts in conservation. She also coordinates the Chocó Alliance, a collaborative initiative to conserve biodiversity and foster sustainable development in the Ecuadorian Chocó.
Additionally, Marlies is a director and the president of the Jocotoco Conservation Foundation in the United States, which supports Fundación Jocotoco’s critical conservation projects in Ecuador.
Fluent in Dutch, English, and Portuguese, she divides her time between the Netherlands and Portugal, dedicating herself to creating impactful solutions for a sustainable future, alongside her dog Astor.
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 her career, she has worked internationally with foundations and nature conservation NGOs as a grant manager, knowledge coordinator, and communicator.
She is the co-author of Sustainable Nature Reserves: Guidelines for Privately Protected Area, a hands-on manual from practitioner to practitioner on how to create and manage nature reserves and co-hosts 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.
Lucia lives between Italy and the Netherlands and enjoys spending her free time climbing mountains and learning about local cultures and foods.
INTERNS
AZ Ali
Conservation Fellow & GIS Developer
Quinn Harper
Conservation Fellow
Board of directors
Lilian Pintea
Ph.D., Vice President, Conservation Science, The Jane Goodall Institute
Samina Bharmal
Sustainability Counsel, HP
