Speaker Profile

Carleen Pickard

Advocacy and Activism Manager / Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, North America

Carleen Pickard works on social, environmental, and animal justice campaigns for Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics. She supports campaigns and initiatives on issues important to Lush such as reconciliation with Indigenous People, ending fossil fuel extraction, and animal protection. Prior to Lush, she held several positions at the human rights group Global Exchange, including executive director, associate director, and Mexico program director. She was also an organizer and political co-director at the Council of Canadians, Canada’s largest advocacy organization.

Ms. Pickard holds an M.A. in anthropology and development from the University of Sussex, U.K., where she worked with Zapatista communities in Mexico resisting military occupation.