Join our team
We’re expanding our small, dedicated team. We are recruiting for exciting new roles to support us in our mission.
General Manager
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We are looking for an exceptional and driven operations leader to join us in scaling our at-sea trips. More info here.
Communications and Community Manager
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Join us as the driving force behind our voice and impact and help foster a thriving community of passionate ambassadors. More info here.
If you are interested in joining our Guest Crew, visit our ‘Join an Expedition’ page.
eXXpedition Core Team
Emily Penn
Founder and Director
Emily is an ocean advocate, skipper and impassioned expert on plastic pollution. For 15 years she’s been at the helm of change: putting the plastics issue on the map, shaping the conversation and catalysing action.
She’s sailed 80,000 miles – from the tropics to the Arctic – leading voyages that have changed science and lives. She’s inspired and worked with everyone from community leaders to CEOs and scientists to heads of state. In 2021 she was awarded the British Empire Medal by the Queen.
Janavi Kramer
Digital Content & Communications
Janavi is passionate about using visual storytelling to engage and inspire others and to spread awareness about the threats impacting our ocean. With experience working in events and media she supports the Director across communications projects and manages the social media platforms and community engagement for eXXpedition and SHiFT.
Outside of her role, Janavi is an ocean advocate and has channelled her energy into Ocean Art and Marine Scientific Illustration.
Emily Graham
Operations
Emily has almost 20 years of experience working in the outdoor industry, magazine publishing and operations management. She has also spent months on the water, running logistics and participating in expeditions.
Alongside eXXpedition, Emily runs quirky holiday lets with her family; and is happiest when up a hill!
Zoe Stanton
Organisational Development
Zoe is a strategic designer, social entrepreneur and business leader. Zoe is focusing on the organisational development of eXXpedition, contributing her skills and experience from founding and growing businesses and leading organisational transformation.
Zoe has a life long love of the ocean and is constantly looking for ways to be in, on or near it, most recently through endurance sea swimming.
eXXpedition Advisors
Lucy Gilliam
Lucy co-founded eXXpedition, has sailed on three eXXpedition voyages and supports the project as a technical advisor and ambassador for the cause. Currently, she works for One Planet Port, tackling climate impacts and pollution from shipping.
Lucy is a professional changemaker with a Degree in Biology and Phd in Molecular Microbiology. Her career has spanned academia, government, grassroots activism and supranational policy making. Lucy has a life-long passion for tackling climate change and toxic pollution.
Elizabeth Pryce
Elizabeth has diverse experience from finance through manufacturing to the arts. She’s a proud Trustee of the National Theatre and Director of eXXpedition C.I.C.
Jeff Twentyman
Jeff is a business director, consultant and a coach working in a range of roles across sustainability, governance and business development – currently with the Green Finance Institute, Blueprint for a Better Business and the Greenhouse incubator programme at Imperial College.
He is Honorary Professor of Practice at the Faculty of Law of UCL and sits on a number of advisory committees and working groups. Jeff was a practicing lawyer and formerly Global Head of Private Equity and also Chair of Sustainability at the law firm Slaughter and May.
Larissa Clark
Larissa leads high impact PR, media and communications campaigns for mission-driven organisations through This Chapter PR. With a background in sustainable development and adventure travel she’s worked with eXXpedition since 2018 to drive awareness, action and powerful collaborations back on land.
