The Fellows
Please meet the past and current Fellows of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association:
Research Fellows:
Angela Minyi Hou (2024-2025)
Angela Minyi Hou currently works as a legal and economic affairs officer in the Accessions Division of the World Trade Organization. She is passionate about international policy challenges relating to trade and investment as well as sustainable development partnerships. Prior to the WTO, Angela worked as a policy advisor for the Government of Canada and an energy specialist at the World Economic Forum. Angela holds a Masters in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and a Bachelor in Arts in International Relations and Contemporary Asian Studies from the University of Toronto. As an EnPAx Research Fellow, she researched inclusion of marginalized groups in projects supported by the Global Environment Facility, with a focus on fragile and conflict-affected countries; she is also supporting the development of the Fourth International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.
Arts Fellows:
Austrin Willacy (2024)
Austin Willacy is an award-winning singer-songwriter, producer, and facilitator with decades of global experience mentoring leaders of all ages to make lasting change. Austin uses music as a tool for introspection, dialogue, and collective action. His environmental peacebuilding work has included championing underrepresented voices in international fora like CBD COP16 and serving on the Board of Rainforest Action Network (RAN), a coalition-building organization that emphasizes the intersectionality of Indigenous, racial, and gender justice in grassroots campaigns against corporate violence.
As a board member of YES!, Austin has been co-creating Jams — immersive gatherings for diverse changemakers — since 2007. In 2020, Austin co-founded Raise Your Voice Labs, a creative culture transformation company building braver spaces for connection and community visioning.
As the 2024 EnPAx Arts Fellow, Austin represented Nature Footprints at the Third International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, where he co-facilitated an arts workshop and performed with collaborator Jesse Matas. You can hear "Sing Me a Song (Peace That Lasts)" here.
Jason Houston (2022)
Jason Houston’s photography, filmmaking, and art celebrates the diversity of human experience through projects exploring how we live on the planet and with each other. Through his work, he is committed to art and action that seeks to deconstruct colonial worldviews and dismantle white supremacy culture.
Jason has worked in over 30 countries producing photojournalism, personal documentary, multimedia art, and short films. His work, which often includes socially engaged approaches, brings to life authentic narratives that recognize agency, authorship, and sovereignty for those in front of the camera while informing broader truths in social and environmental justice. His work has been recognized, published, exhibited, premiered, and presented online, in print, and at venues worldwide. Jason also makes films as eight16 creative with his life and creative partner Dewi Sungai, that focus on racial justice, under-represented voices, and the decolonization and re-Indigenizing of humanity’s relationships with Earth and each other.
As the inaugural Arts Fellow, at the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, Jason contributed a photographic essay on “The Last Wild Places.” He also worked with Rueda to prepare and present a photographic essay on “Guardians.”