Alisha Shanti Chauhan | Director

Consultant | Educator | Writer | Capacity Builder

As a Consultant, Educator and Writer, Alisha Shanti Chauhan cultivated her passion for Nature during her formative years in Africa's safari lands. Her family life in Canada instilled a respect for Nature based-solutions, inspiring her to blend the arts and culture for Watershed Restoration.

With a degree in Biology and Professional Writing, she has two decades of environmental restoration experience in sensitive, remote places, from the Arctic to the islands of Hawai`i, bridging Indigenous communities with multi-stakeholders for Ocean-Climate resilience. 

Alisha co-created the Canadian Climate Change Adaptation Planning Tool-Kit for Indigenous Communities and protective policy at the advent of mining in pristine Arctic watersheds, co-led large-scale, low impact development green infrastructure retrofits along Toronto’s waterfronts, and educated keiki with Reef Guardians Hawai`i, Hawai`i Land Trust and more. 

Based in Hawai`i, she builds community capacity for Blue-Green resilience, leads her Blue Changemakers Youth education and action program, including music and wellness beach cleanups, and serves as an Advisory Member of the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council. She loves being in the Ocean, sharing her original songs about Mother Nature, and teaching youth to be advocates for our better future.

She believes that Indigenous science is integral for restoration and that the power of community connection through education and action is key to coordinating tangible solutions. For our harmonious relation with Planet Ocean, each other, and essentially ourselves. Mother Ocean connects us all.