Our Volunteers
Meet our wonderful volunteers from the Climate Circles and Carbon Fresk teams!
Kriti Murthy - Climate Fresk Team Leader
Kriti Murthy spent 15 years in financial services before a deep dive into climate science changed everything. Learning just how urgent the crisis is, and how much impact people can have, she knew she had to be part of the solution. Now, as a Climate Fresk facilitator and trainer, she helps communities and organizations make sense of climate change and take meaningful action. Passionate about education, collaboration, and empowering change, Kriti believes that when people truly understand the problem, they become part of the answer.
Samantha Hicks - Climate Circles Leader
Samantha is a local climate hero who’s taken a leading role in launching and guiding GCAN’s Carbon Conversations series and the Community Climate Circles.
Samantha Hicks MSW, RSW, CSFT is a therapist with 15 years of clinical experience working with people of all ages in hospitals, schools and community mental health agencies. She has a passion for group work and cares deeply about the environment and sustainability. Samantha has a private practice offering sessions outdoors and indoors to individuals, families and groups.
Diana Smith - Climate Circles Leader
Diana Smith brings thirty years of experience in consulting, management, teaching, and applied research with change makers and influencers in public, nonprofit and private organizations. She is deeply committed to facilitating transition, transformation, and meaningful systems change to address the climate emergency. Diana’s message: “In this time, we can’t be bystanders, each of us has a role in shaping the future.”
Natasha Busic - Climate Circles Leader
Natasha is a registered social worker who has been practicing social work for 13 years. Most recently, Natasha worked with the University of Guelph in student wellness and provided low barrier counselling services with Hard Feelings (Toronto). Natasha is passionate about providing care that acknowledges the socio-political and environmental contexts people live within, and the ways in which a person’s context unequivocally impacts their well-being. This combined with her own experiences with climate grief and anxiety has led Natasha to pursue opportunities where she can support people as they navigate their relationship to climate change and action. Natasha is very excited to learn from the GCAN community.
Natasha is also a proud mother and auntie, and enjoys spending time outside with her family and friends.
Adrienne Crowder - Community Climate Forum
Adrienne's first job after receiving her undergraduate degree was working with the Canadian Environmental Law Association. Since that role so many years ago, her work as a social worker took her into other areas where social justice issues were paramount, namely addressing family violence in its many forms, offering mental wellness training and, most recently, working to improve Canada's drug policy.
Now in retirement, Adrienne says that volunteering for GCAN feels like coming home. "We are all impacted by the health of the environments we live in; what environment is more important than that of our planet? We need to change our beliefs and behaviours so that they respect the integrity of the world we live in. I want to be part of stopping exploitative economic, corporate and industrial practices, and instead, help to embed sustainable, circular economic practices in our society."