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Detailed CV

KARINA MIOTTO

 

Communications and impact strategy focused on social and environmental change

 

Personal Details

Name:                                        Karina Miotto

Citizenship:                                Brazilian (also Italian/EU passport)

Languages:                                Portuguese, English, and Spanish (fluent in all)

 

CORE CAPABILITIES

  • Social and Environmental Communications

  • Investigative environmental journalism and scientific research

  • Deep Ecology specialist (this is an environmental philosophy that advocates radical changes in our relationship with nature and emphasizes acting guided by ethics toward a sustainable future)

  • Speaker (multiple events in different countries, including  this TEDx event)

  • Speakers Coach (Trained by TED in Scotland and Qatar, has had multiple clients)

  • TEDx organizer (TEDxVer-o-Peso in the Amazon rainforest region, Brazil, 2011, 2012 and 2013)

  • Changemakers Coach (with multiple clients)

  • Creative writing (articles, blogs, social media, websites, newspapers, magazines)

  • Considered to be an influencer in Brazil for topics related to environmentalism, sacred and delicate activism, and the Amazon rainforest. Followed by artists and activists.

 

GRADUATION

 

MOST RELEVANT EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL COURSES:

  • Sharing Nature (2013)

  • Gaia Education – Designing a Sustainable World (2013)

  • The Work That Reconnects with Joanna Macy, USA (2016)

  • Envirotech Education, Australia – Diploma Sustainable Operations (2020 – 2021)

 

MOST RELEVANT ASSOCIATIONS

 

MOST RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Remote: mentoring changemakers from different countries

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AUSTRALIA

  • Project leader and researcher at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Leading groundbreaking qualitative research by applying Deep Ecology as a methodology to unite a small Australian Alpine community in collaboratively finding solutions for mitigating climate change, protecting the environment, and fostering sustainable economic development (2003 – present)

  • Rainforest 4 Foundation - Environmental communicator – (2022)

  • Rainforest 4 Foundation - - Fundraising (2020 – 2021)

  • Envirotech Education – Communications Consultant (2019 – 2020)

  • Rich Training – social media and content marketing specialist (2021)

  • Information Planet – facilitation of a workshop on team building, leadership and connection to nature to students and clients (2019)

  • Led Deep Ecology workshops to Aruanda Festival, Femhood, Aquarius Festival, Oca Cuisine, Rally for the Forests – Bob Brown Foundation, The Seeding Fest (New South Wales); Information Planet, Envirotech Education, Ananda Retreat Center (Queensland) (since 2019)

  • Speaker at Haux Fest, Water Awakening (2020 – 2021 NSW), University of Newcastle – guest speaker to students of environmental law – motivational talk on purpose and emotional connection to the Earth (2019), World Environment Day (2022), with invitations to speak to students from the University of Sunshine Coast (scheduled to 2024) and La Trobe University (scheduled to 2023)

  • Volunteer work to Australian Earth Laws Alliance and Friends of the Earth Foundation, both focused on writing and Deep Ecology practices (2023)

 

BRAZIL

While living in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil:

  • O Eco website – editor of Amazonia covering the 9 countries of the Pan Amazon Region - in English, Spanish and Portuguese (2006 – 2012)

  • Amazon Watch – Communications Consultant, with a focus on campaign strategy and social media (2010 – 2012)

  • Greenpeace - Communications Consultant, with a focus on Public Relations (2007 – 2009)

  • TEDx organizer (with a focus on communications, speakers line up, event concept, and speakers coach).

  • Sponsored by TED to participate in two international conferences: TED Global (Edinburg, Scotland) and TEDxSummit (Doha, Qatar)

  • Assisted in constructing the website structure and developing content for Folha de S. Paulo, the largest and most significant newspaper in Brazil (1998 – 2000)

 

While living in São Paulo, Brazil:

  • Gaia Education – teachings on Deep Ecology (since 2019)

  • Founder of Reconexão Amazônia (actions in education, communications and field trips to the Amazon Rainforest to the practice of Deep Ecology)

  • Avaaz – Communications Consultant, responsible for strategy and networking to organize the Global Climate March in Rio de Janeiro (2014)

  • Editora Abril - free-lancer journalist for Playboy, Cosmopolitan, and many others (2002 – 2006)

  • Hôtelier News - editor in chief of this website focused on covering the latest news about the most important and relevant hotels in Brazil (2006 – 2007)

  • Reporter at Folha de S.Paulo newspaper and Folha Online (2001)

 

UK

  • Free-lance writing to Resurgence & Ecologist magazine (2016)

  • Speaker at Schumacher College, England, about the Amazon Rainforest (2015 – 2016)

  • AVAAZ, England – Communications Consultant (2016)

 

GERMANY

  • Guest speaker to community leaders in Berlin about the Amazon Rainforest (2015)

 

 

MOST RELEVANT CITATIONS MENTIONING KARINA MIOTTO´S NAME IN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND ACADEMIC ESSAYS

 

Interviews conceded to Australian media:

 

Book Citations:

 

MOST RELEVANT ARTICLES IN ENGLISH

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