Who’s coming

  • Dele Olojede

    Founder Africa In the World. Writer, publisher & editor

  • Bex Smith

    Founder Crux Sports, former World Cup and Olympic footballer

  • Ron Finley

    Gangsta Gardener, Founder Ron Finley Project

  • Dune Lankard

    Executive Director Native Conservancy, Eyak Athabaskan Native of the Eagle Clan

  • Stephen Hohenrieder

    CEO & Founder of Grounded Capital.

  • Sydney Bolger

    Director The Impact

  • Michael Shaikh

    Human rights activist, writer

  • David Shaw

    CEO of Black Point Group, Explorer, impact investor, tech/science entrepreneur, social activist, filmmaker

  • Billy Martin

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

  • Ana Meier

    Meier Architects

  • Ashley Rouse

    Executive Director of the Edible Schoolyard Project

  • Tom Gruber

    Impact Advisor, co-Founder / Designer of Siri

  • Bruce Stebbins

    Commissioner at Cannabis Control Commission

  • Kaitlyn Zigrang

    Sustainability Entrepreneur & Impact Investor

  • 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

  • Michael Hansen

    Chief Executive Officer Cengage Group

  • Kayuri Bhimani

    World Within, Blue Haven Initative

  • Andrew Huston

    Artist

  • Deimosa Webber-Bey

    Director of Information Services and Cultural Insight Scholastic

  • Aliye Shimi

    Executive Director Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry

  • Ben Zigrang

    Impact Investor, Entrepreneur

  • Damien Coulthart

    Artist, Teacher, Indigenous food advocate, Adnyamathanha and Dieri

  • Katie Stebbins

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

  • Kaplan Bunce

    KRNT Studio, artist, Apache

  • Pui Tiffany Chow

    Artist

  • Peleke Flores

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

  • Alexis Eaton

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

  • Mark Somen

    Managing director Norrsken, LA

  • Matt Siegel

    Landbridge Design, Common Ground

  • Crystal Faith Wahpepah

    Chef, Founder of Wahpepah’s Kitchen, Kickapoo nation

  • Michele Anderson

    CEO & Founder Thirsty Logic, Master of Wine

  • Jannes Sorenson

    Kepler Hotel Group, former GM Beaumont Hotel London

  • Von Diaz

    Writer, documentary producer, and author

  • John Parziale

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

  • Beth Robinson

    Director Conservation and Legacy Lands Hawaii Life

  • Aaron Fenwick

    Winemaker, The Summertown Aristologist

  • Oliver Niedermaier

    Tau Investment, Common Ground

  • Pamela Rothenberg

    Founder IHEARYOUSTUDIOS

  • Linda Black Elk

    Ethnobotanist & Food Sovereignty Activist

  • David Stevens

    Broaden, Common Ground

  • Ben Greene

    Chief Development Officer at Charity: Water

  • Jennifer Nguyen

    Founder & CEO, Matching Hearts Foundation | COO & Co-Founder, HJME Medical

  • Brenna Simmons St. Onge

    CEO and Founder- B the Light Consulting

  • Noah Beckwith

    Environmental/social investing in Asia, Africa, Latin America

  • LeeAnn Wong

    Chef, restaurateur Koko Head Cafe, television culinary producer, Top chef alum

  • Constanze Niedermaier

    Common Ground

  • Sibilla Rapunzel Gelpke

    Fattoria Corzano e Paterno, sustainability advocate

  • Amanda Dugan

    Common Ground

  • Tim Hanchin

    Bridgestone America

  • Jen Luck

    Common Ground

  • Delvon Worthy

    3Roots Media

  • Marie Niedermaier

    Student University of Toronto, Common Ground

  • Arturo Condo

    President EARTH University

  • Kate Lamy

    Founder Thirteen Starrs Limited, Property Design Consultants 

  • Luke Black Elk

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

  • Kahran Singh

    Product Designer, Marketer, Technologist, Investor, Artist

  • Esau Higenyi

    Mastercard Foundation Scholar at EARTH University

  • Fiorella Cortés Aguilar

    Student at EARTH University

  • Toni Stanger-McLaughlin

    CEO Native American Agriculture Fund

  • Jennifer Loh

    CEO & Co-Founder @ Travaras

  • Leonor Gutiérrez

    Director Women in Agriculture Initiative at Root Capital

  • Dr. Thai-Hao Nguyen

    Founder & CEO, HJME Medical | Physician-Entrepreneur & Legacy Health Advocate

  • Rhia Gowen

    Dancer, Ocean Activist, Educator, Life Coach

  • Brian Capobianchi

    Multi-Disciplinary Artist

  • Fran Dunaway

    Co-Founder/President at TomboyX,

  • Noreen Khalid Ahmad

    Vice President Alma Communications, Adjunct Professor NYU

  • Mason Chock

    President at Kupu Ae Leadership Development

  • Christina Zimmerman

    Founder Earth School

  • Tamara Malas

    Artist, Fashion Designer, Founder

  • Ken Cruse

    Founder & CEO @ Soul Community Planet | Holistic Hospitality

  • Pam Cruse

    Co-Founder and CMO- Soul Community Planet

  • Scott Goldberg

    CEO & Founder Avenue D Media, Former Executive Director, News Programming ABC News

  • Sean Kaley

    President/CEO Kauai Federal Credit Union

  • David Alder

    Founder School of Hana

  • Nancy Youssef

    GM Viva Voce, Founder Curves with Purpose

  • Randy Martin

    CEO & President Randall Martin LLC

  • Nicole Vogrin

    Advisor Waterdrop, formerly Western Union

  • Justine Zielinski

    Head of Design One Union Studio

  • Marcus Loevenforst

    Managing Director 1Hotel Hanalei Bay

  • Mehana Blaich Vaughan

    Professor University of Hawaii, Author Kaiāulu: Gathering Tides

  • Holly Lazo

    Artisan Alchemist, Regenerative Hospitality & Farming

  • Dana Malas

    Regenerative Permaculture Designer

  • Dirk Soma

    Associate Professor and Business Program Coordinator at Kauai Community College

  • Ryan Keane

    Founder Koloha Builders

  • Mikayla Hart

    Impact Investor, Chief Sustainability Officer Congruence Partner


  • Stacey Sproat

    Executive Director, Waipa Foundation

  • Olu Campbell

    President & CEO Hawaiian Land Trust

  • Phaedra Martin

    Aromatherapist

  • Barbara Krutchkoff

    CSO, VP Innovation Moda Health, Chairman Insitute for Regenerative & Celluar Medicine

  • Joel Guy

    Executive Director at the Hanalei Initiative

  • Carl Adams

    Venture & Impact Investing, Managing Director Joan and Tim Fenton Funders Fund

  • Aniqa Moinuddin

    CEO Organizm

  • Ava Rose Niedermaier

    Common Ground

Participants 2024

  • Sean Sherman

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

  • Billy Martin

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

  • 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

  • Cari Borja

    Salonniere, Anthropologist, Senior Advisor to Alice Waters