2023 Participants

  • Mark Brand

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

  • Lee Anne Wong

    Chef, restaurateur, television culinary producer.

  • Mike Kanazawa

    Principal and Equity Partner EY

  • Evan Harrison

    CEO Kiss the Ground, innovative audience builder, environmentalist

  • Leland Maschmeyer

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

  • Von Diaz

    Storyteller, cook book author, Prof. at UNC Chapel Hill,

  • Kealoha Domingo

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

  • Rebecca Sullivan

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

  • Peter Lupoff

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

  • Leonor Gutierrez

    Root Capital

  • Kaplan Bunce

    KRNT Studio, artist

  • Andy Whitehouse

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

  • Jacques-Philippe Piverger

    Founder, Chairman, CEO GoodLight Capital, Co-founder MPOWERD Inc.

  • Peleke Flores

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

  • Meleana Estes

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

  • Arturo Condo

    President Earth University, CALI Fellow, AGLN Fellow.

  • Marisa Biaggi

    SVP, Executive Creative Director at Edelman

  • Jonathan Bogarin

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

  • David Banks

    Editor and CEO Impact Alpha

  • Marissa Pulaski

    Executive Director Dryland Agroecology Research

  • Mark Somen

    Strategic Advisor Craft House Consulting. former CEO The Conduit

  • Lorna Solis

    Founder & CEO at Elevate & Project SHEro

  • Geoff Davis

    Sorenson Impact

  • Jason Cutinella

    Founder and CEO of NMG Network

  • Sara Bowen

    Executive Director Malama Hule’ia

  • Jannes Sorenson

    Kepler Hotel Group, former GM Beaumont Hotel London

  • Monica Belz

    Kauai Federal Credit Union

  • John Parziale

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

  • Maya Silardi

    Incandescent

  • Herb Lee

    President & CEO Pacific American Foundation

  • Brenna St. Onge

    Executive Director The Alliance Center

  • Deimosa Webber-Bey

    Director of Information Services and Cultural Insight Scholastic

  • Damien Coulthard

    Co-Founder of Warndu, Teacher & Indigenous Artist. Adnyamathanha & Dieri man

  • Emily Cadiz

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  • Neil Hannahs

    Founder & CEO, Ho'okele Strategies LLC

  • Adam Watten

    Director of Food Systems Common Ground, Founder of Hanai Market, former Executive Chef Koa Kea

  • Katie Macc

    Sorenson Impact

  • Nick DiDomenico

    Executive Director Dryland Agroecology Research

  • Oscar Riquelme

    Private Chef and Event Chef