We are a strategic initiative of environmental groups representing hundreds of thousands of British Columbians
Our Member Groups
Our Team
Lisa Matthaus
Lisa provides government relations and campaign strategy expertise on environmental priorities selected by member groups and develops OFC’s citizen engagement strategies. Previously, Lisa was a campaigner with Sierra Club BC for ten years working on forest policy, conservation (Great Bear Rainforest) and climate issues. She has a Masters degree in Environmental and Resource Economics, an undergraduate degree in finance, and a previous life in investment banking.
Sebastian Sajda
Sebastian is OFC’s program coordinator providing behind-the-scenes support as well as delivery of the Campaign Accelerator program (which he is a product of, having been part of the 2020 cohort). He has a passion for local organizing, being a community and political organizer in Surrey working on climate and conservation issues in the city. He brings with him a background in political science, having studied at Simon Fraser University and the University of Victoria, as well as an interest in technology.
AK Saini
AK brings to OFC nearly two decades of experience in grassroots community organizing with a particular passion for people-powered policy change. They played a lead role in organizing to win an historic raise in the U.S. federal tipped minimum wage and the decriminalization of medical cannabis in New York State. She is a proud daughter of working-class immigrants, political science graduate of the University of Toronto and McMaster University, and human to fur babies Mitz & Fitz the cats.
Emma Dolhai
Emma is OFC's Policy Specialist. She brings to her work a background in climate organizing, having organized with various grassroots climate groups in the Lower Mainland. She holds a JD from UBC, which included research and work related to both environmental and labour issues, and was particularly interested in research related to the intersection of climate change and labour. Emma also has a prior background in non-profit coordination, and loves working at the convergence of project coordination and policy.
Troy Moth
Troy is an artist from Tahsis, British Columbia. Generations of his family logged Vancouver Island’s coastal forests. Working primarily with salvaged wood discarded in logging cut blocks, his work attempts to confront this history, and transform his relationship to nature and wood. Troy’s background is in commercial photography having worked on campaigns for billion-dollar brands, produced a documentary for CBC Switzerland on the Right to Die, and worked in remote Indigenous communities across the country.