Noel Pacarro Brown is a Financial Advisor and the managing partner of The Pacarro Group at Morgan Stanley. Her specialties include family wealth advising, institutional management, and investing with impact. Committed to making a difference within the financial industry and in her local community, Noel brings her expertise and insights to several boards in Hawaii and across the nation.

Maxine Burkett is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i. An expert in the law and policy of climate change, she has presented her work across the globe and has been cited by BBC Radio, ABA Journal, New York Times, Nature Climate Change, and other outlets. Maxine currently serves as a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Cosmo Fujiyama is Vice President of Dream Academy at The Future Project. Formally, she was the Managing Director of the Center for Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania where she has trained more than 450 innovators with skills and mindsets for leadership, design thinking, and organizational strategy. Cosmo is Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University.

Dr. Louis G. Herman is a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii West Oahu, author of Future Primal: How our Wilderness Origins Show Us the Way Forward and founder and director of The Institute for a New Political Cosmology. His work and worldview are informed by early imprinting with Southern African wilderness; schooling under apartheid in the aftermath of the Holocaust and his discovery of his Jewish indigeneity on Kibbutz in Israel.  His research contributes to an emerging political cosmology with the truth quest at its center. He has spent the last two decades developing a curriculum and pedagogy based on this research.

Mark Hixon, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the Sidney and Erika Hsiao Endowed Chair in Marine Biology. A Fulbright Senior Scholar, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program Fellow, and Fellow of the International Society for Reef Studies, Mark is as a subject-matter editor for the scientific journals Ecology, Ecological Monographs, and PeerJ, a member of the editorial board of Coastal Management, and an ad hoc editor for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For both the Clinton and Bush administrations, he served as an executive appointee to and chair of the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee.

Marie-Noëlle Keijzer is multilingual social entrepreneur and the Co-founder and CEO of WeForest, an organization dedicated to advancing innovative, scalable, and sustainable solutions to restore forest landscapes around the world. With 22 years of corporate leadership experience in Supply Chain, CSR and business transformation, Marie-Noëlle offers expertise in business development, marketing, advocacy, and more.

Ian teaches climate solutions courses at Stanford University. He is also the President of Etho Capital, which has pioneered links between climate efficiency and financial outperformance with the ETHO ETF, as well as the Founder of Oroeco, a leading personal sustainability technology platform. 

Carolyn Rodz is a three-time entrepreneur and Founder of Alice. She has raised billions in funding for innovative organizations, created a luxury retail line that sold in over 400 stores worldwide, and launched a global marketing firm. Carolyn’s work includes advocacy for women entrepreneurs. She is also a TEDx speaker and was recognized by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch.”

Brett Scheffers is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation where he researches the human impact on animals living in forested and wetland ecosystems. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society, and Trends in Ecology and Evolution and covered by The Economist, Huffington Post, and Bloomberg News.

Doorae Shin is the Plastic Free Hawaiʻi Program Manager for the Kōkua Hawaiʻi Foundation and the Co-founder of the Good Food Movement, an organization that promotes food justice and sustainability. She serves on the Executive Committee of Sierra Club Hawaiʻi Chapter and is a Board Member for Kōkua Market, Honolulu's first natural foods cooperative.

Maya Soetoro-Ng, MA, PhD is the Director of the University of Hawai’i’s Matsunaga Institute for Peace and a co-founder of Ceeds of Peace. She has taught and developed curriculum for a number of schools in both New York and Hawai‘i. Previously, Maya was an Education Specialist at the East West Center and an Assistant Professor and University Coordinator at the University of Hawai’i’s Institute for Teacher Education.

Rob Toonen is a Research Professor at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology in the School of Ocean & Earth Sciences & Technology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. With Brian Bowen, he has jointly published 300 peer-reviewed papers on environmental issues such as ocean acidification and coral reef disease. Rob is an Associate Editor for the scholarly journals PeerJ, Pacific Science, and Conservation Genetics.

Lauren Tucker is a community organizer and Executive Director of Kiss the Ground, a nonprofit that promotes healthy soil as a solution to remove excess CO2 from the atmosphere. Lauren has studied permaculture design and biodynamic farming and has worked on community building projects in Washington, D.C., West Africa, New Orleans, and Southern California.

Christa Wittmier is a DJ, Columnist, and Marketing Director. She is the author of the widely recognized blog, Honolulu’s Nightlife Diaries, and has helped thousands by detailing her notable recovery from late-stage breast cancer in a viral YouTube video and free paper, A Cancer Plan of Attack. She is also the Producer of the documentary, C is for Christa (2015).