Agents of Climate Emergency
Meet the Team
We’ve assembled a kick-ass team of Urbanists, Climate Strategists, Designers, Community engagement professionals and Impact driven individuals who make change happen.


Jean Darling
FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR
She sees the city as a "living laboratory" and loves creating deliberative, real human empowerment and connection through the design of urban interventions. She believes that reconnecting and regenerating the land we build on is one of the ways forward to solving our climate crisis, the core driving force that planted the seed for Cirque du Soil. She spends her downtime taking her kids out on outdoor adventures, oscillating between beach or snow, or pottering around the house turning as many spaces as she can into mini urban farms.


Stephen Mason
SOCIAL IMPACT AND OPERATIONS ADVISOR


Rachel Wilke
GRAPHIC DESIGNER


Caitlin Phillips-Peddlesden
COMMUNITY AND PROJECTS COORDINATOR
Caitlin comes to Cirque du Soil from the International Development sector, where she has done a bit of everything, from partnerships coordination, to project design and management, monitoring evaluation and learning, and capacity development. She's also Circular Program Officer at Circular Economy Victoria and on the Board of Directors of an Australian health peak body. She has worked and lived in the Pacific and Central America, and worked with and for Australian First Nations communities and groups.
Caitlin supports Cirque du Soil with all things monitoring, evaluation and measurement, including across project design and research, partnerships and stakeholder management, grants development, and evaluation and learning. Growing up in the Tassie bush with hippie parents she learnt to Reduce, Re-use, Recycle from birth, and has a keen professional and personal interest in Placemaking, inclusive community building, and sustainable circular economies. When not subtly guilting family and friends into reducing their personal waste she can be found bike riding, dancing, reading, hugging trees, and (badly) crafting.

B Benny Mazzetti
OPERATIONS COORDINATOR

Benny Mazzetti
OPERATIONS COORDINATOR
Benny Mazzetti is born and raised in Melbourne, with a degree in Film and television which he pursues in his down time. He's always in the hospitality trenches in Fitzroy, and sees the amount of food and coffee waste that gets thrown in the bin on a daily basis, which has inspired him to repurpose food waste as reusable resources.
The most recent addition to the Cirque du soil operations team, Benny is one of the awesome faces you'll see during our ops runs, tracking residential and commercial food waste to where it needs to get to - getting composted! In his words "I've learn quickly it’s an indescribable feeling helping and doing something better for the environment". Currently Benny is working on a product start up utilising recycled coffee grounds and using them in ways never before seen in Australia. Outside of his busy 9-5 schedule, you can find him at the Red Triangle pool hall in Fitzroy or shredding the skate bowl at Edinburgh gardens.


Nanon Karnchanachari
MARKETING COORDINATOR
He is passionate about issues of inequity within the food system through the empowerment of local actors. He joined Cirque for the opportunity to put his studies into practice to create change. Nanon hopes to learn as much as he can to tackle the problem of food waste back home in Thailand. During his free time, Nanon is also a drummer with a band, and frequently visits farmers markets searching for unusual produce to experiment with in the kitchen.


Benedict Aguirre
UX GRADUATE
Benedict joined Cirque Du Soil as he believes that the organisation shares his values, where his goals are to inspire society to do better in an increasingly digital world, where digital design comes at the forefront of expressing these values.


Reanna Willis
CAMPAIGN ENGAGEMENT
In her consulting work, she is pursuing global change through engaging businesses in sustainability and helping to find new opportunities in the low carbon transition. She complements this with a local focus at Cirque du Soil as part of the Engagement Team, connecting with other office dwellers and small businesses to find holistic organic waste solutions. She loves that Cirque keeps her grounded in her local community and constantly reimagining and creating better waste outcomes. Reanna is a passionate advocate for living better through living more sustainably, and when she’s not thinking about this or dancing tango, you’ll probably find her tending to her vegetable garden.


Sally Harrison
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE - GROWGOOD R&D
She has also undertaken PhD research projects which have required extensive research, writing, analytical skills, advanced skills in computations, experimental statistical analysis, and presented her own research at environmental group seminars and conferences.