A global alliance to protect the balance of Earth’s biodiversity.
Convening to protect the vitality of life on Earth.
Advisory Council
The Heart of Our Guidance
Kaiāulu is guided by an Council that holds the ceremonial and cultural foundation of our work. This council is not symbolic—it is the living wisdom that guides how we listen, lead, and make decisions in right relationship with Earth and each other.
Kumu Hula Puna Kalama Dawson
Board and Council Chair, Director of Indigenous Programming
Mamo Lorenzo Izquierdo Arroyo
Arhuaco Elder, Mamo Spiritual Priest | Colombia
Pacha K'anchay
Colombian Elder, Global Coordinator for ONIC - Yanakuna | Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Colombia
Team & Board
Kaiāulu is Indigenous and women-led. Our core team and board work together closely, each member holding key roles in our evolving ecosystem.
We are a dedicated collective honoring the living transmission of ancestral wisdom and reweaving harmony between people, place, and planet.
Prajna Horn
Kaiāulu, Co-Founder/Executive Director
Vision, partnerships & negotiations, Coherence Council convener
Patricia Ellsberg
Social Change Activist, Coherence Lab Board Member, co-founder of Kaiāulu
Shannon Biggs
Co-founder, Executive Director, Movement Rights, Rights of Indigenous Peoples & Rights of Nature
Olivia Frazao
Workshop Facilitator, Coach & Holistic Healing Practitioner: Health & Wellness, Energy Work, Spiritual Awakening
Greg Horn
Kaiāulu, Chief Actualization Officer Business Developer and Coach
Jared Angaza
Kaiāulu, Chief Strategist
Brand Strategy, Identity, and Culture
Monica Gagliano
Kaiāulu, Chief Scientist
Research Science, Ecology, Plant Communication, Author
Coherence Council
Guided by timeless indigenous wisdom, Kaiāulu is led by our Coherence Council which brings together the collective intelligence of diverse hearts and minds.
Coherence Council stewards Kaiāulu as a living fractal of quantum social change. This diverse circle of Indigenous wisdom holders, systems thinkers, and community guides reflects the values of integrity, humility, relational intelligence, and presence.
As we listen to the Earth and one another, we co-create a generative field where emergent wisdom and regenerative solutions arise.
This council holds open the portals to realities already pulsing with coherence—realities where the future we long for is already seeded.
Guided by ancestral insight and whole-systems visioning, Coherence Council ensures that our decisions are made with care, in harmony with the natural world, and in alignment with the more beautiful world we are remembering into being.
Sabra Kauka
Kumu, Island School, Coordinator of Hawaiian Studies on Kauai for the Department of Education, Founder of Na Pali Coast Ohana
Ilarion Kuuyux Merculieff
Unangan (Aleut) Elder, Alaska, Founder and President of Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways
Dr. Anita Sanchez
Nahua (Aztec), Toltec, & Mexican American, CEO & Founder of Sanchez Tennis & Associates, LLC
Doug Good Feather
Lakota Wisdom Keeper, Founder of Lakota Way Healing Center
Katie Todd
Artist, innovator, Founder, Katie Todd Healing
Dr. Megan Poe
Visionary, future being, psychiatrist-artist-poet-Mother; Creator of NYU class on Love
Gabriel Legacy
Founder ShipiboKauai.com, Personal Development Speaker, Medicine Carrier & Apprentice Shipibo-Konibo Tribe, Conscious Leadership
Yael Zeligman
Alternative Educator, Facilitator, Leader, Wisdom Weavers of the World
Dr. Suzanne Simard
Professor, Author of Finding the Mother Tree; Mother Tree Network
Robin June Hood
Network Weaver, Global Change Activist, Mother Tree Network
Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder & Executive Director, Women's Earth & Climate Action Network
Drai Turner
Graphic Artist, Founder of Wild Redhead Design
Mellissa Seaman
Intuitive business strategist, Founder, Channel Your Genius
Elan Gentry
Native Hawaiian creative advisor who activates social permaculture
Sarah Drew
Author of GAIA CODEX,
Activist, Earth Mystic
Matthew Green
Global Investigations Editor at DeSmog, Co-host of the Collective Trauma Summit 2023
Prishani Satyapal
Founding CEO, Sustainability Truthing, Industry Transition Design, Consulting & Implementation
Herb Hammond
Forest Ecologist and Forester, Founder Silva Ecosystem Consultants & Silva Forest Foundation, Nature-directed planning, Author
Randy Hayes
Executive Director, Foundation Earth
Jeff Conant
Director of International Forests Program, Friends of the Earth, Economics, Industry Transition
We offer our sincere gratitude to TJ Watt of Ancient Forest Alliance for providing many of the beautiful images of Ancient Forests.
Join the ‘Ohana
We are growing rapidly and are currently accepting applications for volunteers and internships. We would love to welcome you to the family!
The Kaiāulu Name
Images from space have revealed that Earth is profoundly interconnected. They exposed the scars of the misguided priorities of humanity divided. But our unity is even more powerful than our ability to destroy.
kaiāulu ~ (kaia ulu)
Community, village, tribe; a place where everyone belongs
As we heal our perspectives and harmonize our actions, we make way for new possibilities.
Kaiāulu represents the breath of all life on Earth. We are here to realize the promise of a coherent, symbiotic world with abundant life, where everyone belongs.
“Wrapping the world with the intention of unity that will blossom for future generations.”
Puna Kalama Dawson
Hawaiian elder, cultural practitioner & Coherence Council Co-Founder.
Kaiāulu is a venture of Coherence Lab, which serves as our fiscal partner.
Coherence Lab is a Hawaii-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is advancing whole systems solutions by uniting Indigenous Wisdom and Earth Systems Science while bringing people together to create fields of coherent, collective intelligence and unified action to positively impact systems at scale.