Jodie is the Executive Director of Puget Sound Restoration Fund. Prior to that, she served as Deputy Director for five years, advancing science, expanding partnerships, and building support for the unique brand of PSRF in-water restoration. Before PSRF, Jodie worked at the Nature Conservancy and The Natural Capital Project. She received her PhD in Aquatic & Fishery Sciences from the University of Washington. Her two kids keep her and her husband on their toes, exploring the wonders of the world both great and small.

Rachel Aronson is the Executive Director of the Quiet Sound Program, which aims to reduce impacts to Southern Resident killer whales from large commercial vessels. Rachel has worked with federal, state, and local agencies, and many tribes, and facilitated a broad range of groups, from large, contentious public meetings to small decision-making circles. Rachel holds an M.M.A. from the University of Washington’s School of Marine and Environmental Affairs.

Briony Penn is a naturalist, writer, educator, and broadcaster. Penn is an award-winning writer of creative non-fiction books. She has been a feature writer and columnist for decades with over five hundred articles on environmental issues and natural history in newspapers, magazines, government publications, online news sources and peer-reviewed journals.

Ray Harris (Shulqwilum) is a member of the Stz’uminus First Nation on Vancouver Island. He has a broad range of cultural, political and on the ground experience in First Nation Issues. He served for 15 years as the elected chief of the Stz’uminus First Nation and currently serves as Co-chair of the First Nations Summit and many relevant committees and boards.

Mr. Harris is an active commercial fisherman who travels yearly up and down the BC coast.  

Elin Kelsey, PhD is a leading spokesperson, scholar and educator in the area of evidence-based hope. Ellin’s work focuses on the reciprocal relationship between humans and the rest of nature, particularly in relation to the emotional implications of the narrative of environmental doom and gloom on children and adults. She is a feature writer for Hakai Magazine and a best-selling Children’s Book Author. She has been a Salish Sea Fellow with the Salish Sea Institute working on Hope for the Salish Sea.

Ginny Broadhurst is the Director of the Salish Sea Institute at Western Washington University. She was hired in 2017 and has led the publication of the State of the Salish Sea report, the creation of the Salish Sea Fellows program and a Salish Sea Studies minor. She has been working on Salish Sea protection and restoration in various capacities for over 25 years. She has a BS in Environmental Conservation from Univ of New Hampshire and an MMA from Univ of Washington.