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who we are

We’re a small team of creatives who are all hands in to protect and promote the enjoyment of public land. We assemble a team of collaborators tailored to your specific project needs.

Meet Ilyssa

Founder

Ilyssa has wanted to do this for a very long time. When she was five, she made a promise to a worm that she would help protect it and all the other worms in the world – and she’s been chasing that promise ever since.

Eager to do good for our planet and in constant awe of the incredible work of those who protect and preserve our lands, Ilyssa is combining her love for the outdoors and decade of experience working in design agencies into All Hands to bring her skillsets in support of their missions.

Ilyssa is a design researcher and strategist with experience leading teams, projects and programs for organizations spanning from nonprofits to global corporations.

As the co-editor of Campfire Stories: Tales of America’s National Parks Volume I and Volume II (with over 80k copies sold) and founder of the creative sabbatical program Amble which supports nature nonprofits and conservancies (featured in The New York Times), she has formed relationships with many public lands organizations over the years and identified opportunities for creatives to build on and grow their efforts.

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Collaborators

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    Laura Wattles

    NONPROFIT COMMUNICATIONS, PROGRAMMING & EVENTS

    Laura has extensive experience living in rural gateway towns (and living in a tent cabin on 360 acres of land!) and working at park and community-based nonprofits. She worked as a communications manager at the Yosemite Mariposa County Tourism Bureau and served as the first Executive Director for the Yosemite Climbing Association, where she led fundraising and volunteer events (e.g., Yosemite Facelift).

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    Melissa McFeeters

    VISUAL DESIGN
    & ILLUSTRATION

    Melissa strives to deliver work that makes a positive impact on the organizations she works with, especially ones who are passionate about making the world a better, more beautiful place. She received a BFA in graphic design from Tyler School of Art, and after several years working as an in-house designer, she’s currently a full-time freelancer working on branding, publication design, infographics and illustration from her studio in Philadelphia

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    Sarah Low

    ECOLOGY, PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT, CONSULTING & EDUCATION

    Sarah Low is a business management consultant, ecologist, educator, and mindfulness teacher with 20 years of experience in government, non-profit, and private sectors. She is the founder of Strategic Nature, which helps organizations find adaptive solutions to address changing conditions and identify sustainable and meaningful actions to help realize their goals. She helped establish the Philadelphia Urban Field Station with the US Forest Service in 2011 and founded the Tacoma Tree Foundation in 2018.

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    Max Grudzinski

    PORTRAIT, LANDSCAPE AND AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

    Max is a professional photographer currently based in rural Vermont, He is well-versed in food, wedding, portrait, interior, and lifestyle photography and has a passion for nature, landscape, and aerial photography. Max brings the right level of calm, connection, trust, adventure, and zest for life that makes his human subjects feel comfortable and his viewers immersed in the subjects of his lens.

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    Dave Kyu

    PROGRAMS, EXHIBITIONS
    & ARTIST RESIDENCIES

    Dave Kyu has a decade of experience directing, designing and managing exhibitions, nonprofit programming, and artist residencies for cultural organizations and community spaces. As an artist himself (and a former National Park Artist in Residence), Dave has a unique gift for managing budgets and timelines while engaging audiences in the vision and process of the work. Dave is also the co-editor of Campfire Stories: Tales from America’s National Parks.

Let’s do good things together.

We’re passionate about what you do. We want to be collaborators on your next big initiative. We don’t pretend to have all the answers, but we know a lot of really good tools and processes for finding them. Want to explore possibilities? Reach out!