LEONARDO MARTINEZ-DIAZ (he/him) - Founder and Director

Leo is a native of Mexico City and Chicago. He is an author, scholar, public servant, and climate activist who has worked for nearly two decades in the policy arena fighting for climate action, both in non-profit organizations and the federal government. His most recent book, with Alice C. Hill,  is Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How to Prepare for the Coming Climate Disruption (Oxford University Press, 2019 and 2022). He is an amateur photographer.

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ALEXI SCHEIBER (she/her) - Artistic Coordinator

Alexi is an experimental animator and multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from UMBC's IMDA program in 2025 where she was awarded the RTKL Fellowship for her thesis work "Awake/Dreaming" where she imagines restorative communities. She recieved her BFA in Animation from MICA in 2018-- her undergraduate film "A Love Letter for the End of the World," was about climate grief, and was showcased at over two dozen film festivals around the world, earning recognition from Adobe and the International Green Film Festival in Poland. She also works as an arts educator and is an Adjunct professor at UMBC. At the Crow's Nest, she is the first point of contact. ​

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Please keep in mind that both Crow's Nest staff work outside jobs. We apologize for any slow response times, and this work is important to us.

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