Our team
Linh Do
Director
Linh Do is passionate about climate justice and leadership development. She's spent the last decade working across advocacy and engagement, media and social enterprise. Linh is chair of Climate Action Network Australia and a board member of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation. She was most recently Australia and Pacific lead for Climate Reality, Al Gore’s leadership program having brought over 800 people together for Climate Week Queensland.
As an alum of the University of Melbourne, Linh is excited to see students apply their academic knowledge with practical skills to tackle sustainability challenges. Outside of work, she can be found consuming ice cream, walking extremely quickly and dabbling in podcast creation.
Lemae Mortimer
Special Projects Coordinator
Lemae brings a cross-sector perspective to her work at the Wattle Fellowship with experience spanning across a range of sectors including climate change, international development and emergency services. Alongside her role at Wattle, she works with Mongabay as a Program Coordinator, focusing on impact verification, data analytics, and tracing how environmental journalism translates into real-world conservation outcomes. Lemae holds an MA in International Development from Monash University and has prior experience with ACFID and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade through the New Colombo Plan initiative.
As a Wattle team member, she loves watching fellows grow in confidence and find their voice as sustainability leaders. Outside of work, Lemae can be found on a probably misguided mission to become trilingual, currently locked in an ongoing battle with both Spanish and Maltese.
Clancy Lester
Alumni Engagement Officer
Clancy is dedicated to native bee conservation and environmental education. Growing up in Nurmurkah, he developed a deep connection to nature inspired by David Attenborough and Steve Irwin. He has conducted research on native bees alongside the Yolngu people of East Arnhem Land, NT. Last year, Clancy launched the conversation further through his education project about native bees during his time as a Wattle Fellow in cohort 3, as well as receiving support from BlackBird, Bloomberg, the City of Melbourne, and the ABC's Heywire Trailblazers program. Also known as "the bee man", Clancy continues to explore Australia's diverse ecosystems while sharing his knowledge of native bees and other insects, while also beginning to engage with key policymakers.