Maddy Mason & Eleanor Cheetham founded of The Wild Academy in 2019 to offer a space for untamed learning. Maddy is a coach and independent researcher with a passion for supporting the growth and development of wildhearted women. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Coaching and Mentoring, focusing primarily on developmental psychology.

Eleanor is a trained literature and creative writing teacher, and worked in academia for over five years before starting Creative Countryside, an independent magazine and small press. Around the same time (2016) she ditched bricks and mortar for canvas and lived in a tent for a year, rooting her relationship with seasonal change and the natural world. Much of her own writing and explorations of rewilding stem from this experience.