Mike Williams Sr., Chair of Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (KRITFC) Executive Council
Mike is the current Tribal Chief of the Akiak Native Community. He helped found KRITFC and is former Area Vice President of the National Congress of American Indians, former Chairman of the Association of Village Council Presidents, Former President of the Rural Community Action Program, Board Member of the Native American Rights Fund, Former Vice Chairman on the Alaska State Board of Education, and an avid and long-time musher and lditarod Sled Dog Race veteran and retired US Army Veteran. He has testified before Congress concerning the impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples in Alaska. He is the recipient of Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation Luminary Award.
Kendall Barbery, Director of Partnerships & Program Development at GreenWave
Kendall develops the organization's program strategy and leads partnership development and expansion efforts. Since joining GreenWave in 2017, Kendall helped develop the organization's Training & Support and Innovation programs, delivered training to over 600 prospective and current ocean farmers, and incubated four kelp hatcheries across New England, the west coast, and Alaska. She served on the leadership team for the development of GreenWave's online Regenerative Ocean Farming Hub.