Our organization

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.

Our Leadership

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

Led by love. Backed by wisdom.

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, Global 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!

What it Means to Us

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.