Helena is an active core member with PlanetaryCARE - an innovative social enterprise co-creating the necessary shift back to healthy soil-based agriculture.
The team at PlanetaryCARE.org is bringing together international and national agribusiness stakeholders so outdated farming practices can transition to regenerative agricultural practices.
Current farming models must adopt a whole-systems design before the world’s topsoil is lost.
Helena is an experienced executive producer and community-based environmentalist, and she hopes to promote systems change and PlanetaryCare’s vision by building up strong nature-positive narratives and by strategizing on impact collaborations.
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For over 30 years Helena has secured creative and entrepreneurial partnerships in the U.S. and the International entertainment marketplace. Helena was the co-founder and CEO partner of Forefront Entertainment, a vertically integrated media company that created, produced and distributed 115 hours of dramatic network programming to 120 countries. In addition, while one of the executive and creative producers in charge of Forefront’s broadcast television slate, her company received over 30 international awards, including an international EMMY for the BBC co-production dramatic series 'Magician’s House'. In particular, Helena was the first recipient of the Banff TV Festival 'CTV Award of Excellence’ in recognition of her role as an executive producer of quality entertainment for American and global audiences.
Helena has over the years been actively involved at the local and international level with social and environmental causes. She has written and directed acclaimed social justice documentaries. As well, she has been a board member of community social enterprises such as Four Corners Bank; CreateChangeNow; and Working Arts. On the environmental side of things she is one of the founding members of TankerfreeBC, and the 'The Edge’, a think tank to advance the climate change narrative through truth in media. Helena has attended several international environmental conferences and events such as the Rio and Paris UN Earth Summits on Climate Change. Recently she has been a guest at international ethical impact investor events researching how impact messaging and storytelling can further accelerate the global circulation of innovative and timely climate crisis solutions.
