A global alliance to protect the balance of Earth’s biodiversity.
Synthesizing Collective Intelligence
Our leadership consists of strategists, academics, scientists, entrepreneurs, activists, economists, technologists and wisdom keepers with vast experience in the protection and preservation of Earth’s Ancient Forests.
Convening to protect the vitality of life on Earth.
Prajna Horn
Kaiāulu, Co-Founder & Executive Director
Vision, partnerships & negotiations, fundraising, Coherence Council convener
Monica Gagliano
Kaiāulu, Chief Scientist
Research Science, Ecology, Plant Communication, Author
Jared Angaza
Kaiāulu, Chief Strategist
Brand Strategy, Identity, and Culture
Shannon Biggs
Co-founder, Executive Director, Movement Rights
Rights of Indigenous Peoples & Rights of Nature
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
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
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.
As we listen deeply to the Earth and to one another, we catalyze new ways of thinking; free of judgment, limitation, and a scarcity mindset.
Council is a template for a new way of life on Earth. It provides a coherent field of presence that nurtures the shared commons, providing access to the realms where the new reality we dream of already exists.
The ideas which emerge from this sacred space guide our perspective and our actions. This council is in place to ensure that our decisions are made with integrity, through whole systems thinking and in harmony with our natural world.
Puna Kalama Dawson
Kumu Hula, Hawaiian Indigenous Elder, Board Chair of Coherence Lab, co-founder of Kaiāulu
Patricia Ellsberg
Social Change Activist, Coherence Lab Board Member, co-founder of Kaiāulu
Pacha K'anchay
Colombian Elder, Project Coordinator for ONIC - Yanakuna | Sierra Nevada del Cocuy, Colombia
Lorenzo Izquierdo Arroyo
Arhuaco| Mamo Spiritual Priest | Colombia
Dr. Megan Poe
Visionary, future being, psychiatrist-artist-poet-Mother; Creator of NYU class on Love
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
Sabra Kauka
Kumu, Island School, Coordinator of Hawaiian Studies on Kauai for the Department of Education, Founder of Na Pali Coast Ohana
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
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.