MALINA

I was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawai’i, and have a love for the environment and a passion for health. I’ve been fortunate to travel to places like Uganda and the Philippines and experience how other cultures live more cooperatively.  I’m interested in living in community because it seems like the most socially fulfilling and sustainable way to live.

My interests in filmmaking and activism met and married in college when I studied social issue documentary filmmaking in southern California. After graduating, I worked independently on my own films about toxic chemicals in cosmetics and personal care products. My proudest accomplishment was helping pass historic legislation protecting coral reefs from sunscreen chemicals. (Watch my short film Reefs At Risk.) Years dedicated to producing a feature investigative documentary, without a budget or team, eventually burnt me out.  I’ve taken some time to rekindle, and to broaden my skills and interests beyond filmmaking.

I’m a caring daughter, a sun-kissed gardener, a women’s group facilitator, and a paddle ball champion in the making. But my inner fire to make impactful documentaries and help change the world still smolders… READ MORE . . .

DIGA

Hello! I strive to direct my energy with humility, gratitude, and service to nurturing this planet’s vast web of life. My life choices reflect a consistent effort to de-construct tenacious, unhealthy inner and outer patterns of patriarchy, exploitation, individualism, and separation. Self-exploration, intentional community experience, and interdisciplinary studies convince me that community/clan/tribe living is an important missing link in how to most ecologically express our highly social nature.

I love growing food and building soil, with practical knowledge in permaculture, Korean natural farming, aquaponics, rotational grazing, raw dairy, fermented foods, and slaughter/butchering.  I’ve also done construction, beekeeping, wood milling, solar system maintenance, grant writing, workshop facilitation, elementary education, and fencing.

I have experience living in intentional community (10 years), directing musical theater (8 years), and directing marimba ensemble (10 years).  I would love to be a part of collaborative, activist musical theater in the future. READ MORE . . .

JASMINE

“Where are you from?” is a question with a complicated answer. My upbringing is colored by a multitude of cultures and countries, but none that feels mine. Losing both my parents by 32 was disorienting and it inspired the desire to establish a family of friends in an intentional community.

Early on I sought out a life as an artist, earning an MFA in Sculpture with a minor in Fiber Arts but as I became newly politicized I drew connections between our culture and the poor health of the living planet. I felt an urgency to learn the skills to live directly with my landbase and as that relationship grew so did my sense of awe, respect, and love of our planet.

I continue to develop my interests and skills in nature awareness, bird language, tracking, food growing, permaculture, subsistence living, rewilding, handwork with natural fibers, processing and cooking with local foods, appropriate technology, natural health, and local activism.  READ MORE . . .

rev. 6/10/2021