OUR CORE BELIEFS

We are inextricably connected with the natural world. Our own health relies on a healthy environment and ocean

By understanding how natural systems work, we can learn to do a better job of taking care of our planet’s life support system

Having a sense of wonder, hope, and purpose are essential for making the changes we want to see in the world

Being an early adopter, putting yourself out there as an example, even if it is uncomfortable, is almost always worth the risk

Meet the Team

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Director

Laura Francis

Laura Francis has been a marine biologist and educator for the past 30 years and has dedicated her professional career to ocean conservation. She worked at NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary for 27 years in education and outreach. More recently, she has focused on how to make a deeper impact through philanthropy and impact investing in the ocean. She joined Toniic, a global action community for impact investors, and started a donor advised fund called Sea Forward Fund. She has recently set up a collaborative multi-donor Sea Forward Ocean Health Fund at ImpactAssets. She leads an ocean working group at Toniic and another one within Rachel’s Network. She is on the board of Community Environmental Council and Sustainable Change Alliance.

Content Strategist

Nicole Wald

Biography

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Communication Consultant

Lucia Ordoñez Gauger

Lucia comes from a background in fisheries social science, with an MS from Humboldt State University in Natural Resources. She worked for the State of California's Marine Protected Area Monitoring Program in the North Coast region, and more recently on an NSF grant funded project about climate adaptation within the Market Squid and Spiny Lobster fisheries of California. Lucia feels passionately about marine sustainability and the vitality not just of oceans, but of the stakeholders dependent on it as a resource - At Sea Forward she focuses on website maintenance and dissemination of information to the public.

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