We are creating a path to equity.
We prioritize the needs and perspectives of communities and rights holders, working in a collaboration with regulators and industry leaders to drive positive change in the shipping sector.
Our Team
Meet the people behind Equal Routes
Elissama Menezes
Andrew Dumbrille
Curtis Martin
Breanna Bishop
Writer and Strategy Specialist, Equal Routes
Research Lead, Equal Routes
Co-Founder and Director, Equal Routes
Co-Founder and Director, Equal Routes
Rachel Jai-Sho Wang
Reanne Harvey
Communications and Community Impact Specialist, Equal Routes
Strategic Conservation Advisor, Equal Routes
Tina Shahbazi
Administrative Coordinator, Equal Routes
Our Values
Our work towards a sustainable, equitable and decarbonized maritime industry is guided by three key principles.
We prioritize supporting the demands and leadership of communities disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, shipping impacts, and pollution. We believe in using a human-rights approach and an equity lens to address their needs and concerns.
Human-Rights Approach
We prioritize supporting the demands and leadership of communities disproportionately impacted by the climate crisis, shipping impacts, and pollution. We believe in using a human-rights approach and an equity lens to address their needs and concerns.
Evidence-Based Knowledge
We use creative strategies to ensure that all information disseminated is transparent, credible, and accessible for the general public, policymakers, financial institutions, and the shipping industry to make informed decisions. Through transparency, accountability is built.
Transparency & Accountability
Territorial Acknowledgement & Commitment to Decolonization
Equal Routes acknowledges the role of global shipping in the historical and ongoing genocide and colonization that has led to the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples from their ancestral lands and waters. Embedded over centuries, our modern maritime governance frameworks cannot be untangled from these complex histories of colonialism and imperialism. We continue to deconstruct the deep-rooted participation of the maritime shipping industry that supports and profits from the enslavement of people and the stealing of land, food, resources, and culture.
Equal Routes is committed to interrogating our own prejudices and those of the people we work with. We actively advocate for maritime governance and operations rooted in customary values and practices, centering equity and local solutions within the broader context of global shipping. We invite corrections and learnings to ensure we are not complicit in perpetuating a legacy of Indigenous marine dispossession, and to better understand the role our organization can play in fostering equitable maritime practices.