Alyssa Portaro

FOUNDER & Director

Alyssa Portaro is a passionate environmentalist and activist with a diverse resume spreading across the fields of sustainability, socially beneficial corporation consultancy, and nonprofit project development. She was awarded two awards offered by National Wildlife Foundation, earning the title of an official ‘NWF EcoLeader’ for phytoremediation, land restoration, and global community-focused conservation accomplishments through Habitat Recovery Project. 

     As a former appointed NJ Environmental Commissions Boardmember, she aided in a lawsuit against the Tennessee Gas Pipeline earning the community over $300,000 in reparations for the trees that they had removed and not replaced in Vernon, NJ.

     She spent 8+ years within the Renewable Energy industry as a consultant aiding new companies in getting off the ground through facilitating financing partnerships and utilization of federal and state incentives amplifying the spread of residential and commercial solar electric across the Northeastern United States.

     Alyssa is a 501(c)(3) Founder and Director of her organization Tribal Images Museum, a project that puts camera, film, and production equipment into the hands of tribal communities to document their cultures, environments, and lives through the indigenous perspective. 

Tribal Images Museum’s scope of impact broadened as she moved down into the Environmental Justice Frontlines along the Gulf Coast and now operates under DBA, “Habitat Recovery Project.”

Alyssa resides in Louisiana on her 24-acre property which serves as a community hub, public campground, and farm sanctuary. Alyssa has mentored over 50 regenerative farming apprentices through the WWOOF (Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms Foundation) Platform and also was awarded as the #1 Hipcamp Host in Louisiana in 2023. Matter Of Trust has also granted Alyssa and this property licensing to operate as the Matter of Trust - Louisiana hub, where we will be taking hair and fiber donations and turning them into felted mats to clean up oil spillage from impacting the ocean along the Gulf Coast, both preventively and as disaster response. 

Prior to owning land in Louisiana, Alyssa and her partner, Ocean Clark, previously restored an abandoned junkyard into wildlife habitat, removing over 40 dump truck loads of trash and planting 800 trees and 200,000 tree seeds to heal the soil. 

     Alyssa has dedicated herself over the past decade to animal rescue, and is accredited in Wildlife Rehabilitation. Her noteworthy achievements include nursing hundreds of creatures back to good health, rescuing livestock from slaughterhouse auctions, and catching invasive species in Everglades National Park with a team licensed by Florida Fish & Wildlife. Now she operates these efforts from her Louisiana homestead. 

Alyssa is a former professional specialty event producer. She has done work managing premier holiday product launch events for Fortune 500 companies, entertaining at celebrity parties featured in Vogue, and performing in off-Broadway shows with world renowned artists.

In 2023, Alyssa is launching the Ted Talks Dirty series, a multimedia collection of stories on sustainable-agriculture, land stewardship, natural resource conservation, environmental justice, and innovative environmental solutions and community activations amidst climate crisis with a focus on local leaders. She also launched the SWLA EcoLearners Nature Schooling Group, a family program for outdoor education and engagement. 

  Alyssa actively consults and supports several 501(c)(3) nonprofits, socially beneficial companies, and political organizations outside of her own efforts:

• Cora Blue Fund in conjunction with the Narok County, Kenya Government in the fields of conservation, education, and food access

• GreenPeace USA, Contracted Consultant on #StopLNG campaigns and rallies in the Gulf South

• Sierra Club Delta Chapter, consulting on pipeline biological impacts, renewable energy policy, and building community systems to strengthen the fight against LNG industry expansions in coastal wetlands 

• Foundation Farms 2021, leveraging aeroponic gardening technology to build emergency use and localized food security 

• Little Herds on Zero Hunger/Zero Waste, and equitable food system solutions

• SXSW ‘s The Future Of Food Festival

• Universal Play Australia bringing wheelchair accessible playground equipment into public spaces

• Copenhagen Carbon Project Standard (Denmark) for monetizing land stewardship and preservation through verified carbon credits and corporate partnerships

• Green Vault Coin (GVC), an Eco-Focused Cryptocurrency 

• Homeless Bus Inc, serving food access with dignity and care to shelterless communities in NYC

Alyssa’s passions for the environment and sustainable agriculture bridged with her political, green technology, community-based philanthropy efforts, and network of influential collaborators, offer the perfect circumstances to share in engaging your endeavor.