GreenCollarWoman™ is the vision and brain-child of its Founder, Tashweka Anderson. However, GreenCollarWoman™ would not be possible without the commitment, hard work, dedication input, encouragement, and support  of several very special people, some of whom are profiled here.

Tashweka M. Anderson

Managing Director, Anderson Brown Ltd
Founder, GreenCollarWoman™

Tashweka is herself the quintessential green-collar woman. She is an expert in Sustainable I.T., having gained relevant experience as the Green I.T. Portfolio Owner at Fujitsu Services and the Sustainable I.T. Business Manager at Computacenter, two large I.T. services companies. Tashweka is passionate about leveraging women to green the economy. In addition to running GreenCollarWoman™, Tashweka provides sustainability consulting services to organizations of all sizes. For more information on these services, visit www.anderson-brown.com

Dhruti Dattani
Social Media and Events Assistant, Anderson Brown Ltd

Dhruti joined the Anderson Brown team in February. A Media and English graduate from north-west London, Dhruti brings an eye for design and a keen interest in sustainability to the team. Dhruti is responsible for our social media presence and our event marketing and planning so get to know her because you'll be seeing and hearing from her a lot!

The extended team

The Membership Committee

Harriet Bell

Ines Carvalho

Georgina Combes

Sarah Edwards

Louise Hine

Zoe Robinson

Nivedita Chanana

Associate, GreenCollarWoman™ - July - December 2009

Nivedita hails from Chennai, India and was an Associate until December 2009. In between her demanding Job as a Media Analyst in Chennai, Nivedita helped us to create linkages with other, related groups.

Ahlem Mahroua

Associate, GreenCollarWoman™ - July - December 2009

Born and raised in Lyon, France, this 25 year-old woman of Algerian origin holds a Bachelor in International Trade Relations and is in her final year of an MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility expected in June 2010. Also having a passion for women leaders, Ahlem is an active member of Alpadef, the Panafrican alliance for women entrepreneurship. Although no longer a member of the Anderson Brown Ltd staff, Ahlem is a founding member of GreenCollarWoman™ and remains an active community member.

Georgina Combes
Sustainability Communications Consultant

George is an accomplished consultant whose work with us on messaging, the articulation of our vision, assistance with the scripts for our videos and much much more on an extremely limited budget was invaluable. I don't know what we would have done without her! You can check out George's blog here georginacombes.wordpress.com/

Megan Hill and Tatiana McCabe
Filmakers 

Megan and Tatiana are great friends who did a wonderful job filming and editing our promotional video 'I am a GreenCollarWoman', having flown all the way from New York City in September 2009 just to help us with this project. Megan and Tatiana also created the 'What's all the fuss about green jobs' animated video.We are forever indebted to them! Megan and Tatiana's pride and joy is Hello Super 8 where they specialise in making modern films with vintage cameras. Check them out here: hellosuper8.com/

Arnaud Reichart
Graphic designer

Arnaud is a Paris-based photographer, a graphic designer and a friend who did a great job creating our original signature GreenCollarWoman logo (the woman with the green scarf). You can see more of Arnaud's work here www.digitalartconcept.com/

Jon Martin and Julio Taylor of Big Spring UK
Webmaster

Big Spring UK is our Nottingham-based webmaster who keep this website from falling apart, despite our limited budget! www.bigspring.co.uk/

Other Founding and Focus Group Members

Many thanks go out to the women who gave of their time to participate in our focus group and who provided insight and feedback about what women might want from a network like this one. They are: Gillian Lipton, Heidi-Lynn Mitchell, Debbie Lloyd, Jo Matthews, Larissa Clark, Louise Hine, Amisha Ghadiali

Special Thanks go out to:

Steve Walsh for support and coaching

Toyin Ogundana for LOTS of encouragement, especially in the early days and for the logo idea!

Chris Norman & Kathy Allen from the Good Agency for their initial comments and feedback in 2009.