Dee Lawrence

Founder and Director

Dee Lawrence is a director and co-founder of High Tide Foundation, along with Richard Lawrence. She and Richard are also directors of Proyecto Mirador Foundation, a Gold Standard certified carbon project that installs fuel-efficient clean cookstoves in Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. The project has prevented the emissions of nearly two million tonnes of greenhouse gas. This community health project benefits women and children by helping them to avoid respiratory illness caused by smoke while reducing wood use by nearly half.

With Richard, Dee is also a founder of Cool Effect, a non-profit, online platform with a mission to educate and inspire organizations and individuals to take measurable action against climate change by purchasing carbon offsets from the world’s highest quality carbon emission reduction projects. Projects include those related to clean cookstoves, methane emission reductions, land conservation, forests, renewable energy, and compost.

Dee has over 25 years of experience in marketing and advertising with major agencies and U.S. corporations and holds a BS from Miami University.