Vasser Seydel

Vasser Seydel is the president of The Oxygen Project, an organization on a mission to ignite a global community of nature champions and drive collective action through campaigns, education, and storytelling. Under her leadership, the organization is committed to catalyze a regenerative, conscious, and climate-resilient reality.

Vasser is a trustee of the Turner Foundation, where she continues to promote her family’s legacy of environmental responsibility and was the inaugural chairperson of the Turner 3rd Generation Board. She also serves on the boards of the National Center for Family Philanthropy and Dr. Sylvia Earle’s Mission Blue. In addition, Vasser is an Arctic Angel for Global Choices and an advisory board member for One Earth and the University of Georgia’s Sustainability Certificate.

A cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia with a bachelor’s in communications, Vasser contributed to UGA’s Office of Sustainability as the grants and engagement director, served as a student sustainability ambassador, and interned at the United Nations Foundation and TEDWomen. Following graduation, Vasser began consulting for social impact organizations specializing in communications, digital media, and strategic development and championed environmental causes as a global ambassador for Julian Lennon’s White Feather Foundation and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.