KEYA Corps

KEYA Earth Corps members are an important part of the KEYA Earth company culture who contribute specific skills and support our guiding principles. KEYA Earth Corps members serve as advisers, consultants, and team members at various stages of our projects.

Ben Wyss (Environmental Services)

Ben has a background is Environmental Planning, GIS and Civil Engineering. Ben has worked with GIS for UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency), as well as WAPMERR (World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earth Risk Reduction). Ben's primary roll with KEYA EARTH is in the Environmental Department.

Tomer Sheleg (Global Strategy)

Tomer is Israeli born and runs a green remodeling and real estate business in the New York Area. He brings significant project management experience and a passion for inspiring teams to the KEYA Earth company.

Temashio Anderson (Environmental Services)

Temashio is Pomo and Navajo and has significant environmental services experience specializing in water issues and depleted uranium. He is currently a graduate student at Kansas University studying Indigenous peoples around the world and how they are becoming self-reliant and self-determined through community based cultural and sustainability initiatives. He will be working with KEYA Earth on renewable energy projects as well as developing projects in tribal communities in his home of Northern California. He brings to KEYA Earth a natural talent for entrepreneurship and business development.

Nick Tilsen (Community Development)

Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota) is a fourth generation organizer who has been active in many organizing efforts - from human rights to environmental justice and community economic development. He is the founding director of Lakota Action Network LAN), a youth organization working to protect sacred sites while promoting sustainable alternatives in renewable energy. After serving as director for LAN, Nick has started Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation, a community-based sustainable economic development project. Thunder Valley and KEYA Earth have formed a partnership to develop a sustainable economic development corridor for the Lakota People. Nick brings to KEYA leadership genius and a passion for sustainable development in Native America that is unrivaled.