Our Team
Casey Harrell, Senior Strategist
Casey is a climate-campaign strategist and nonprofit advocate with more than two decades of experience influencing the world’s largest technology and financial institutions. He is best known for co-designing and launching BlackRock’s Big Problem, a global coalition campaign pressuring major asset managers to address climate risk as Senior Strategist with The Sunrise Project, and for leading groundbreaking corporate-accountability initiatives during his years at Greenpeace — including the award-winning Green My Apple and Unfriend Coal campaigns.
Casey’s work combines strategic campaigning, corporate engagement, and systems-level analysis to drive structural change. Across his career, he has collaborated with movements from frontline community organizers to international NGOs, helping shift industry norms on energy transition, supply-chain sustainability, and the health impacts of technology.
Since joining the BrainGate clinical trial, Casey has also become a pioneering voice in ethical and accessible brain–computer interface (BCI) technology. As the world’s first speech neuroprosthesis super-user, he works at the intersection of disability rights, technological innovation, and climate strategy — advocating for guardrails, equity, and responsible development of AI-driven neurotechnology.
Casey lives in Oakland, California with his partner, Levana, and their daughter.
Levana Saxon, Director
Levana Saxon is a facilitator, strategist, and participatory educator with deep experience in community-led transformation. Rooted in Popular Education, Participatory Action Research (PAR), and Theatre of the Oppressed, she supports organizers to engage in rigorous social analysis through expressive and somatic tools, enabling groups to deepen trust, and co-create pathways toward justice and collective well-being.
As the co-founder of Partners for Collaborative Change, and lead author of Coliberate, Levana partners with community groups, coalitions, public agencies, and nonprofits to integrate equity, transparency, and creative engagement into strategic planning, and community-driven research. She designs and facilitates processes that center lived expertise, cultivate critical consciousness, and translate community wisdom into meaningful and sustainable action.
Her work spans sectors — from caregiving to environmental justice to housing, youth development, and arts-based organizing — always grounded in a commitment to liberation and community self-determination.
Levana lives in Oakland, California where she is a caregiver for her partner, Casey, and their daughter.