Our Community

  • Sean Sherman

    Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, cookbook author, forager, and promoter of indigenous cuisine.

  • Billy Martin

    Medeski Martin & Wood, composer, percussionist, visual artist, filmmaker.

  • Mahina Paishon

    Co-founder and CEO of Waiwai Collective

  • Felix Maradiaga

    Academic & political activist. 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee.

  • Lauren Tucker

    Founder, reNourish Studio, Principal Consultant Beyond the Farm

  • David Eilenberg

    Head of Content for Roku Media

  • Katie Stebbins

    Executive Director of the Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute at Tufts University

  • Mark Brand

    Entrepreneur, Educator, Facilitator, Chef, Founder A Better Life Foundation

  • Michael Shaik

    Human Rights Activist, Climate Policy Analyst, Writer

  • Rebecca Sullivan

    Author Warndu, food curator, consultant, TV presenter, activist, author, regenerative farmer, and social entrepreneur

  • Leland Maschmeyer

    CEO Collins, previous CBO Chobani, Board Member Sway, Basis, Circle of Blue, Nomi

  • Kaitlyn Zigrang

    Sustainability Entrepreneur & Impact Investor

  • Kealoha Domingo

    Chef and Hawaiian cultural practitioner, Nui Kealoha catering, community leader

  • E. Benjamin Skinner

    Founder & President Transparentem, prev. Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism of Brandeis University

  • Skya Ducheneaux

    Executive Director of Akiptan, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

  • Stephen Hohenrieder

    CEO & Founder of Grounded Capital.

  • Chanel Ford

    Director of Programs, Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF)

  • Peter Lupoff

    Impact investor, educator and former Chief Executive Officer of Net Impact

  • Aliye Shimi

    Executive Director Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry

  • Andrew Huston

    Artist

  • Nicole Masters

    Author, pattern thinker, regenerative soil educator. Director: Integrity Soils

  • Presley Wann

    President Hui Makaʻainana o Makana, UN Equator Prize

  • Ben Zigrang

    Impact Investor, Entrepreneur

  • Katie Macc

    Sorenson Impact

  • Kaplan Bunce

    KRNT Studio, artist, Apache

  • Peleke Flores

    Field Operations & Cultural Resources Manager at Mālama Hulē'ia,

  • Alexis Eaton

    Director, Marketing, Public Relations & Programming at 1Hotel Hanalei Bay

  • Andy Whitehouse

    Senior Partner Penta Group, assistant professor at Columbia University, former UK government policymaker

  • Rockfeler Hérissé

    US Diplomat/Climate Finance/Coach/Author

  • Meleana Estes

    Lei Maker, Designer, Stylist, Author ‘Lei Aloha’, stylist-in-residence Common Ground

  • Nicholas Gold

    Vice President 1 Hotels

  • Jonathan Bogarin

    Co-Founder + Director/Producer El Tigre Productions, Emmy Award Winner 306 Hollywood

  • Mecca Bos

    Food writer, Chef, Executive Director of BIPOC Food Alliance

  • Arturo Condo

    President Earth University, CALI Fellow, AGLN Fellow.

  • Linda Black Elk

    Ethnobotanist & Food Sovereignty Activist

  • Mike Coots

    Surfer, photographer, shark advocate

  • Deimosa Webber-Bey

    Director of Information Services and Cultural Insight Scholastic

  • Mark Somen

    Strategic Advisor Craft House Consulting. former CEO The Conduit

  • Tauna Dean

    Founder KIND WORLD COLLECTIVE

  • Mason Chock

    President at Kupu Ae Leadership Development

  • Mike Taitoko

    CEO Takiwā, co-founder of Toha and Calm The Farm

  • Geoff Davis

    Sorenson Impact

  • Krista Kane

    shrimp studio, Ex-Oatly, Brand Builder, Director

  • Steven Dean

    Artist

  • Jannes Sorenson

    Kepler Hotel Group, former GM Beaumont Hotel London

  • Emily Cadiz

    Program director at Hui Maka‘āinana o Makana

  • John Parziale

    Director of Agroecology Common Ground, Founder Kauai Authentic Farm, educator

  • Melissa Hammel

    Documentary Filmmaker Becoming Pictures

  • Sean Kaley

    EVP/COO Kauai Federal Credit Union

  • Anna Wittenberg

    Video editor and visual artist

  • Luke Black Elk

    Food sovereignty activist, teacher of traditional plant uses, gardening, food preservation, & foraging

  • Beth Robinson

    Director Conservation and Legacy Lands Hawaii Life

  • Aaran Fenwick

    Winemaker, The Summertown Aristologist

  • Cara Federici

    CEO & Founder, Head of Design, at The Madison Melle Agency

  • Ben Green

    Chief Development Officer at Charity: Water

  • Wandile Mtoba

    Co-Founder Kandua

  • Karlyn Adams

    Former Director ESG at BlackRock

  • Oscar Riquelme

    Private chef

  • Prof. James Charles

    Director of the First Peoples Health Unit, Griffith University, Kaurna

  • Paige Nagle

    charity:water

  • Ethan West

    CEO Piko Provisions

  • Lisa Huddleson

    CEO & Founder Citizen Philanthropy Advisors

  • Christie Cash

    President & CEO at Puakea Ranch, Hawaii

  • Robert Munson

    Sorenson Impact

  • Simon Mainwaring

    Founder & CEO We First

  • Lucy Congdon Hanson

    Artist

  • Pamela Rothenberg

    Founder IHEARYOUSTUDIOS, Content Specialist WellPlayed Health

  • Scott Goldberg

    Former Executive Director, News Programming ABC News