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Our story
The Founding of the Red Quill Society
The Red Quill Society was born in 2024, founded by six long-time friends and explorers united by a shared love for the marine world — and a shared frustration.
For years, we had exchanged stories: witnessing environmental crimes in some of the planet’s most remote corners, feeling helpless to intervene, to protect, or to hold the perpetrators to account. Each injustice left a mark. Each story weighed heavier.
The final spark came in 2024, as we watched Captain Paul Watson — a figure we deeply admire — imprisoned, with his life's work in jeopardy.
It was a stark reminder: no single individual can carry the burden of defending the Earth forever.
Others must step forward.
Others must pick up the quill.
Individually, our skills were not enough. But together, our combined experience — as sailors, documentary filmmakers, investigative journalists, storytellers, marine biologists, and field researchers — formed something greater: a network capable of witnessing, exposing, and resisting.
The path has not been without risk.
Early efforts brought direct threats — against our vessel, our careers, and our families — from those who profit from ecological destruction.
Faced with that reality, we made a choice:
We would move quietly.
We would protect our mission by using codenames, allowing the work to speak louder than any single identity.
The Red Quill Society stands today not just as a network of witnesses, but as a reminder:
The Earth remembers. So do we.
Why "Red Quill Society"?
The pen has always been both a weapon and a witness.
At the Red Quill Society, we chose our name to honor the power of truth — recorded, spoken, and carried across generations. The quill represents the timeless act of bearing witness: the recorder, the one who refuses to let injustice be forgotten.
The red signifies the price of that truth — the cost of exposing hidden crimes against the natural world, and the courage it demands.
We do not seek confrontation for its own sake.
We seek to tell the stories others try to bury, and to expose the harm that corporate greed would prefer to leave unnamed.
In every red quill is a promise:
To write the truth, even when it cuts.
Our Founders
Code Name: Gannet
Code Name: Gannet
Code Name: Gannet
Blending creative vision with technical mastery, Gannet brings exceptional storytelling skill and an insatiable spirit of exploration to the team.
An award-winning documentary producer and editor, Gannet’s work spans celebrated projects for renowned networks, capturing the fragile interplay between humanity and the natural world. Her portfolio includes documentaries recognized by the industry’s highest honors — among them, Academy Awards, Peabody Awards, and multiple Emmy nominations.
Gannet’s storytelling weaves narratives that connect audiences deeply to wild places and forgotten histories, aligning seamlessly with the Red Quill Society’s mission: to expose, protect, and inspire through the power of witness.
Beyond her cinematic achievements, Gannet lives the spirit of the expeditioner — documenting life in Earth’s most remote environments and collaborating with global conservation efforts to amplify the voices of the threatened and unseen.
Through Gannet’s lens, every discovery becomes a story — and every story becomes a call to protect what remains.
Code Name: Loon
Code Name: Gannet
Code Name: Gannet
Drawn from an early age to both engineering challenges and the open horizon, Loon has spent a lifetime pursuing the edges of the known world. A quiet veteran of expeditions across North America, Europe, Oceania, and the Caribbean, Loon has long guided others into some of the planet’s most untamed spaces.
Seafaring entered Loon’s life early on, with summers spent crewing traditional sailing vessels and forging a lasting bond with the ocean.
As the seasons shifted, so too did Loon’s path — from leading mountain expeditions to crisis management and emergency services.
An unexpected turn of events altered the course of Loon’s career, opening the door to a deeper pursuit of storytelling. Certified across multiple fields in visual media, Loon turned to documenting the wild and overlooked, bringing hidden worlds to light through the lens.
Today, Loon lives and works for the adventure — driven by a passion to explore, witness, and share the raw beauty, and silent tragedies, of the natural world.
Code Name: Osprey
Code Name: Gannet
Cade Name: Nightjar
With over two decades of expertise in sustainability and environmental strategy, Osprey has led major transformations across industries — from consulting for top global organizations to collaborating with international institutions focused on environmental and social change.
An advocate for environmental justice, sustainability, and social equity, Osprey’s commitment extends well beyond the professional sphere, with a long-standing record of leadership in the nonprofit sector.
A Fellow of distinguished exploration and scientific societies, Osprey brings a global perspective sharpened by direct engagement with communities confronting environmental degradation.
Beginning in cartography, Osprey transitioned from mapping the world to fighting for its future. As a published author and documentary producer, Osprey weaves narratives that reveal the profound connections between biodiversity, environmental loss, and indigenous resilience.
Currently undertaking a global motorcycle expedition, Osprey documents the lived experiences of remote and indigenous communities on the frontlines of climate change and development — revealing the interconnected fabric of our world, and the fragile beauty we risk losing.
Cade Name: Nightjar
Cade Name: Nightjar
Cade Name: Nightjar
Raised amid the wild lakes and forests of the North, Nightjar grew up immersed in the rhythms of untamed nature — from scaling cliffs to wandering deep woods in search of hidden treasures.
Even after moving to the outskirts of a sprawling city, Nightjar’s connection to the natural world only deepened, inspiring a lifelong pursuit of green spaces and thriving ecosystems.
Professionally trained in technical craftwork for visual storytelling, Nightjar balances a demanding creative career with an unwavering dedication to conservation. Whether working within industries or retreating to remote sanctuaries, she carries a passion for protecting the wild places that shaped her.
Now a parent herself, Nightjar’s commitment to environmental action has grown even stronger — driven by the hope of preserving a wild and vibrant Earth for generations to come.
An adventurer at heart, Nightjar shares her life with a kindred spirit who embraces her love of exploration. Between rock climbing, wilderness restoration, and a lifelong hunger for powerful stories, she continues to weave a life rooted in resilience, creativity, and fierce devotion to the Earth.
Code Name: Heron
Cade Name: Nightjar
Code Name: Heron
With a deep passion for conservation and exploration, Heron has dedicated her career to understanding and protecting fragile ecosystems.
Currently engaged as a field ecologist on a remote desert preserve, she balances scientific research with hands-on environmental work across diverse landscapes.
Heron's background includes major long-distance expeditions, often undertaken solo — including a monumental solo kayak journey across thousands of kilometers of inland waterways to collect vital ecological data.
An advocate for public engagement, Heron maintains a conservation and travel platform bridging science and storytelling, bringing complex issues to broader audiences in accessible, compelling ways.
In quieter moments, Heron pursues photography, traditional arts, and gardening — always with an eye toward capturing and preserving the fleeting beauty of the natural world.
Through science, exploration, and art, Heron bears witness to the wild — before it fades.
Raven
Cade Name: Nightjar
Code Name: Heron
Never one to follow an ordinary path, Raven turned ambition and curiosity into a way of life.
After a decade mastering leadership in business development, logistics, and operations, she chose a different frontier: the wild, uncharted places of the world.
Armed with extensive academic and professional experience, Raven brought the same drive that once built boardroom empires to the pursuit of exploration. Having traveled to more than 90 countries across all seven continents, it was a month-long expedition through Antarctica’s Ross Sea that forever changed her course — a journey into raw, untamed polar beauty.
Refusing to stay at the surface, Raven became a polar scuba instructor, diving into the frigid depths where few dare to venture. Through photography, writing, and fieldwork, she documents the hidden corners of the planet — places too wild, too remote, too forgotten for the common lens.
After the world shifted during the pandemic, Raven reimagined her mission — blending her consultancy, a full-time career, and expanding conservation media efforts.
Today, she shares Earth’s secret places with a new generation of explorers, crafting stories that bridge distance, depth, and the urgency to protect what remains.