Our Team

Adam Dolezal - co-Executive Director

Adam Founded Dyspatch in 2015 and works to support its land defense members, works to integrate the direction of the Board, and build the organization. Prior to founding Dyspatch Adam worked with international environmental NGO’s and think tanks on climate and energy, community-based conservation, and human rights. Adam has a PhD in Environmental Anthropology and conducted a five year ethnographic study with environmental movements and land defenders across North America.

lily trienens - fundraising and community organizing

At Dyspatch, Lily engages with frontline communities and indigenous leaders to stop fracking, pipelines, and open pit mining. She has extensive experience working with nonprofits and international organizations in Washington DC, San Francisco, and Colorado; in fundraising and donor engagement; in anti-violence toward women advocacy; economic empowerment of marginalized women; and youth climate action. She enjoys howling with her two puppies, cultivating land and community through permaculture, and building home in Colorado.

Neil brandvold - communications, photo and video

Neil is an award winning photojournalist and filmmaker with experience working in conflict, disaster and post-disaster zones across North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa and the Middle East. His work has been featured in numerous outlets including The Washington Post, National Geographic, Newsweek, PBS FRONTLINE, The New Yorker, WIRED, Al Jazeera WITNESS, PRO PUBLICA, The Intercept, The Guardian, ABC News, USA Today, Nature Magazine, NPR, PRI, BBC, CNN. Neil is also a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee, and a member of FOSTER DISCOURSE. 

Tayla ealom - movement counseling and social transformation

Tayla is a bodyworker, writer, medicine maker, and embodiment counselor that works to weave the worlds of somatic psychology, women’s spirituality, ecofeminism, earth based wisdom, and social justice. Currently pursuing her PhD in Women’s Spirituality at the California Institute of Integral Studies, she is asking how embodied knowledge is an access point for social transformation. Her work with individuals and groups creates safe space for exploring the large challenges that we collectively face in order to help transform pain into healing, for the next seven generations.

Michael Lynn - Field support and research

Michael is a doctoral candidate in the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Revolving at the intersection of resistance, reskilling, and rewilding, his research encompasses the cultures of radical land defense, tending the wild, and traditional healing, where he is interested in what it means to embody the ecowarrior spirit in these times of the Great Turning. He currently resides on traditional mountain Maidu lands in the South Yuba watershed.