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Eryn Schornick, Founder & Principal
Eryn is a New York–licensed attorney and investigative strategist working at the intersection of law, finance, and human rights. For more than two decades, she has led investigations into corruption, financial opacity, environmental harm, and human rights abuses, focusing on how money moves through corporate and financial systems and how those systems facilitate harm and complicate accountability.
She designs investigations with institutional action in mind, aligning evidence with regulatory, corporate, and policy pathways.
Eryn led a major investigation for the UN Office on Drugs and Crime examining illicit financial flows in the Mekong region, informing international enforcement strategy. Her work also contributed to the passage of the U.S. Corporate Transparency Act, mandating corporate ownership disclosure.
She advises organizations on climate, agribusiness, and financial sector risk, translating financial analysis into regulatory and legal strategy.
She works in English and Spanish and holds a Juris Doctor and a B.S.B.A. in Finance and International Business.
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Kanika R. Gordon, Creative Director | Strategic Business Development Manager
Kanika specializes in co-creating with diverse climate and biodiversity clients. Her work includes detailed research to aid in the conceptualization, development, and execution of media projects. Those projects are directed at policy makers and funders and span digital, print and design outputs.
Her ethos involves community building and advocacy to secure a better future for all.
Highlights include the "We Women are Water" Campaign with the Global Alliance of Green and Gender Action which launched at the Ford Center for Social Justice in 2023, and as a side event in 2024, for the 68th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Kanika has a Bachelor of Design from Canada’s Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) University.
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Adrien Tofighi-Niaki, Special Advisor on Climate and Environmental Justice
Adrien is an expert on climate and environmental justice and works to bridge investigative and action-based research. He has extensive experience developing resources for environmental activists and land rights defenders resisting extractive industry violence, as well as co-developing mapping tools for frontline communities to record local climate change impacts.
His investigative research has exposed widespread greenwashing in the voluntary carbon market, fossil fuel lobbying within Conferences of States Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COPs), and human and environmental impacts of the energy transition. Research he has led on or contributed to has featured in the BBC, The Guardian, and NPR, among others.
Adrien has a MSc in International Development from the University of Amsterdam. He's worked with environmental, research, and human rights organizations in Boston, San Francisco, Barcelona, and Amsterdam, and works in English, French, and Spanish.
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Coziana Ciurea Butler, Independent Senior Advisor, Sustainable Finance
Coziana is a senior sustainable finance specialist and market practitioner with over 20 years of experience working with the public sector, international development organizations, and financial institutions.
Her areas of expertise range from socio-economic development, conflict risk, and stakeholder engagement to corporate and country sustainability analysis, labeled bonds, governance, and human rights. She led corporate and sovereign sustainability risk assessments at Vigeo Eiris and Moody’s ESG and co-chaired the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) data working group for the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA).
Coziana is an independent Board Adviser for the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI). She holds a master’s in international trade from the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest and a master’s in political science from the London School of Economics. She works fluently in English, Romanian, and French.
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Ali Hines, Senior Advisor on Rights-based Accountability
Ali has spent over a decade investigating environmental and human rights abuses in global commodity supply chains and natural resource governance.
At Global Witness, she exposed the natural rubber industry’s links to land grabbing and deforestation. Her work helped drive reform efforts within the sector.
She has worked across Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America on deforestation, land rights, and corporate environmental harm. Her research has supported efforts to protect land and environmental defenders and strengthen Indigenous land rights.
Ali holds an MSc in Environment, Science and Society from University College London.
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María Fernanda Cocina García, Research Assistant
María is a recent law graduate from the Universidad Anáhauc México Norte. She has worked on issues of criminal justice and labor rights with a relentless passion for putting people and the planet first. María is fluent in Spanish and English.
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Contributors
Our team is lean and agile—we scale teams up and down to meet clients’ needs. We have access to all types of professionals and skill sets from across the world ranging from government officials, including from law enforcement, to academics, journalists, legal and financial services professionals, political, financial, and research analysts, as well as representatives from civil society, international organizations, the media, and the diplomatic community.
This operating structure enables Sēk Strategies to deliver superior and efficient services to your team where we manage costly, time-consuming, and often complicated administrative and security considerations.