We are a women-run, multi-generational, small grassroots organization with great impact. We keep our organization small so that funds are directed to implementing programs instead of lofty overhead. With essential support from Earth Island Institute, our experienced Advisory Team, and a very dedicated group of volunteers, we are mighty in the work we accomplish.
Hallie Austen Iglehart, founder
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Founder and creator of Beach Cleanup Station concept, Hallie is a grassroots organizer since 1968, teaching workshops at University of California, United Nations Women’s Conference and Graduate Theological Union and is the author of two books on the sacred feminine. She was co-founder and board member of Seaflow (2000-2008), working locally, nationally and internationally to educate people about the dangers of underwater sonars to marine life.
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Nicole Cibellis, Executive Director
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Born a California native on the beaches of Southern California, Nicole is passionate competitive open water and Masters swimmer. While gaining her degree in Business Administration from the University of San Diego, she fell in love with the Bay Area. In 1996, Nicole followed her dreams of living in Northern California and moved to San Francisco to start her career. She comes to All One Ocean with over 25 years of developing and managing both large and small businesses across the Bay Area, while also being a community leader with a focus on bringing families within the community together. Being out in the open water swimming almost everyday, Nicole is deeply connected to our Ocean and wants to teach our youth how they can make a difference so, that new generations will in turn take care of our Ocean and Earth. Nicole is the mother of two boys - 13 and 6 years old.
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Annie greenE, program Manager
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Annie grew up in a small beach town in West Marin nestled between the Pacific Ocean and Mt. Tamalpais. Her love for the California coast has always been a huge part of her life and she has pursued work that encompasses the nature around her. Annie works as an Event Coordinator all around the Bay Area and has experience working with local non-profits, schools and specializes in both public and private events. After spending a year abroad in Australia, Annie returned to the Bay Area and finished her degree in Visual Communications. Annie joins the All One Ocean Team with a passion for education and community involvement in helping our beaches and oceans stay clean.
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Rose Chalfin-wakeley, assistant PROGRAM MANAGER
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Originally a Boston native, Rose has recently moved to the Bay Area and has fallen in love with the beauty and adventure right at her doorstep. She currently works as an instructor at Peninsula Forest and Beach School and has a lot of experience working with children in outdoor education settings. She is passionate about education and believes firmly in the importance of nature and the outdoors as a vital part of childhood and development. When she isn’t working, Rose enjoys hiking and exploring and taking long walks on the beach to find interesting rocks, shells, and seaside creatures. She also does a lot of arts and crafts in her free time, specifically embroidery, jewelry making, and painting. She is fascinated by the ocean and marine creatures (especially jellyfish!) and in recent years has taken up SCUBA diving. Rose is very passionate about the protection of our oceans and marine life and is excited to put her experiences as an educator to use helping All One Ocean educate others on how to love and care for our oceans and beaches.
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Ellen MacDermid, communications and mentorship
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Ellen is a Bay Area native who spent much of her childhood camping on California beaches, eating ling cod and abalone her dad caught. Her love of the ocean has led to her swim from Alcatraz multiple times and open-water swim regularly during her frequent visits to Hawaii. She can often be found walking her dog around San Francisco, picking up trash with giant pincers. A graduate of Santa Clara University, Ellen is a communications consultant for high-tech firms. All One Ocean inspires her to protect the oceans she loves and share her passion for nature with the next generation of stewards.
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Ashley MacDonald, SPECIAL PROJECTS
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Ashley comes to All One Ocean with years of experience working on environmental issues from both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Originally from the East Coast, Ashley is now living in Mill Valley with her husband and two daughters. She is a dedicated volunteer serving on her local community Board of Directors, leading committees both there and at her daughters' school. She fills her spare time hiking, playing tennis and trying to get outdoors as much as possible. A strong believer in the cascading leadership model, Ashley is looking forward to expanding the Ocean Warriors program and contributing to All One Ocean in any way she can. Ashley's first job out of college was at Earth Island Institute and she is thrilled to be returning to the organization from the project side after all these years!
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Our Amazing Interns
ridmi dewage, SOCIAL MEDIA
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Ridmi studied Business Management for her undergraduate in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She is an active cyclist and partner at local bicycle service center - Cyclalogy and a self taught writer and in love with every thing about whales and dolphins. Love for these oceanic mammals left her wanting to dig deep into environment conservation and research to educated herself about these areas & current affairs in the region. For the last 2 years, she has been contributing to two local websites with environmental conservation/ research based articles and is eager pursue more.
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Caroline Lewis, Ocean Warriors/Beach cleanups
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Caroline Lewis is 16 years old and a junior at Redwood High School. She does a lot of activities in the water when not at school including playing water polo and surfing and she is a certified SCUBA diver. She was inspired to become a marine biologist at the age of 10. As a surfer, she grew up with both love and curiosity for the ocean. She says, "I love the ocean because when I’m in the water I get to see this whole new world in which I never knew. Underwater you get to see new creatures and sites on every corner and you don’t know what to expect. It breaks my heart to see that every time I go to Muir beach to surf, I see more and more trash in the ocean and it makes me feel so angry that people are doing this." Now with the opportunity to work with All One Ocean, she can make a difference by inspiring the next generation by teaching them about the importance of preserving and protecting the ocean. She can’t wait to work with All One Ocean.
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Emma Murphy, Ocean Warriors and Cleanups
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A senior at Sir Francis Drake high school, Emma in enrolled in an Environmental and Social Justice Academy called SEA-DISC. Following her passion for protecting the environment and saving the planet from destruction, she along with her classmates partake in many projects and compile research that makes an impact on the world around them. One of her biggest passions, since a young age, has been learning about the big blue body of water that covers almost ¾ of our planet and the life that lives within it. When not in school Emma loves playing and watching sports, Softball and Water Polo in particular, and enjoys traveling with family. She is very excited to be a part of the All One Ocean team to do whatever she can to help tackle the crisis that the planet is currently facing.
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Claire gazzola, beach cleanup stations and CLEANUPS
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As a senior at Tamalpais High School, Claire has always had a strong love for the ocean and the animals within it. In recent years, she has focused on protecting her surrounding environment from human impacts while spending time at the beach collecting trash and educating others about marine life. She loves to pass time working with others and spending her time in nature. At school, Claire's favorite classes are marine biology and documentary. She is currently participating in a film program at Tamalpais High that teaches on an experience based curriculum while producing 2 small films a year about pressing topics in our society. Outside of school, she loves to play soccer for her team with Marin FC and also enjoys to surf whenever she gets the chance. Claire is looking forward to working with All One Ocean and getting the chance to help solve the environmental challenges we are faced with today.
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Ruby Prose, Ocean Warriors
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Ruby is a senior at Terra Linda High School within the Marin School of Environmental Leadership. She joined the program looking to gain more experience being in leadership roles as well as gain knowledge about the differences she could make in the world surrounding our environment. She loves spending time outdoors, and with family and friends. Being in the MarinSEL program has taught her how to educate others about the climate crisis and how to keep our planet healthy. Her favorite class at school is Environmental Sciences and she hopes to major or minor in marine biology in college.
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Lauryn Cummins, Beach Cleanups
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Lauryn is a senior at Terra Linda High school. She has had a love for the ocean her whole life. She loves the outdoor experience, including camping and backpacking with her friends and family since age 5 in the Sierras. Living part-time at Stinson Beach Lauryn is also a surf instructor for Stinson Beach Surf Camp, where she always reminds the surfers to pick up their trash. She volunteered for a month-long service trip to Costa Rica with the Amigos Program. During that trip she prepared extracurricular activities for the youth in the community, such as fun and educational games on health and safety, the environment, biodiversity, protecting resources, reforestation and team building. She also helped with community based project management and fundraising during her time there. She is excited to hopefully start a beach cleanup organization for beaches local to Marin while working with All One Ocean and help educate and inspire environmental change.
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Nikolo Vo, Beach cleanup stations
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Niko is a 2nd year Mechanical Engineering student at Oregon State University. He grew up in the East Bay of California - sailing, hiking, and learning to love the oceans. At OSU, he is a leader in the Marine Studies Institute’s Ocean11 club which brings together students from all 11 colleges to experience and make a difference with our coasts and oceans. Most recently, he worked for 8-weeks as the Head Instructor for the Inverness Yacht Club’s Summer Sailing Program. He worked with the IYC Committee to design the program for Covid safety as well as structuring all other aspects of running a safe program for 75 youth sailors ranging from 9 - 18 years of age. Niko is passionate about the oceans and is excited to use his skills as a budding engineer to assist All One Ocean.
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All One Ocean Advisory Board
Patricia Ellsberg is a social change activist, meditation teacher and life coach. She was a co-conspirator with her husband, Daniel Ellsberg, in the release of the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971.
Patricia Farrar-Rivas is a founding principal, as well as the CEO and Chief Compliance Officer, of Veris Wealth Partners. Patricia is a principal consultant to the Envestnet Sustainability Platform and a member of the Envestnet Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Standards Council for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), a nonprofit that works on developing and disseminating industry-specific sustainability accounting standards for material, nonfinancial (ESG) information. Patricia’s work with community leaders in Central America on economic development and local empowerment led to her work on the social justice and environmental impact of investment policies and decisions.
Mary Crowley is founder and President of Ocean Voyages Institute and co-founder of Project Kaisei, the Ocean Voyages Institute's oceans clean up initiative.
Franki Crites, former AOO Project Director, Franki grew up in Iowa, along the Mississippi River. After graduating high school, she moved to California to pursue a degree in biology with an emphasis in ecology and environmental sciences. Although always being concerned and involved with environmental issues, after moving to the Bay she fell in love with the Ocean, surrounding ecosystems, and the community. She is currently pursing her master degree in molecular biology at Dominican University, while also working as the primary lab analyst for the City of Mill Valley. At the City of Mill Valley she treats and analyzes the water that is returned into the Bay to ensure only healthy happy water enters the Bay.
Bill Ross is an veteran business owner and operator who shares his experience in business strategy, execution, management, operations, technology and digital marketing to help All One Ocean run efficiently and achieve its goals. Bill is an avid catch and release fisherman and is passionate about maintaining the health of our Ocean to ensure the health of our fisheries.
Gavin Pauley is an advocate of environmental protection. He sees a necessity for humans to make major life-style changes in order to shape a sustainable future. Environmental education of our youth is imperative to see this shift in humanity and the way we interact with the world. Gavin has a range of experiences with environmental education working with an elementary school in Davis and their outdoor education spaces, working with the City of Davis and their coalition of ‘green businesses’, working with the Arboretum and Public Garden and their educational events, working with the Sustainability Education Department for UC Davis Dining Services, and working as the Education and Outreach Director at the UC Davis Campus Center for the Environment … you name it.
Ramona Mays has been a stranding volunteer at AOO partner, The Marine Mammal Center, since 2009 and is HAZWOPER-trained with OWCN to help rescue marine wildlife in the event of an oil spill. With her husband John, she is co-founder of The Mays Family Foundation, which funds environmental organizations including All One Ocean; Ke Kai Ola, The Marine Mammal Center’s new Monk Seal Hospital in Kona, Hawaii; Sea Shepherd’s anti-whaling work in the Antarctic and Taiji Japan Dolphin slaughter.
Stuart Moody is President of Green Sangha, a mindfulness-based environmental action group. He directs their Rethinking Plastics campaign.
Wallace J. Nichols, founder of BlueMind, works with California Academy of Sciences as Research Associate and is a Conservation Science Advisor for ProPeninsula. He is working on an oceans study with Duke University and Blue Ocean Institute.
Mayumi Oda is an artist/activist and founder of Plutonium Free Future. Her art is exhibited and collected world-wide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Mayumi is the author-artist of numerous books, including Goddesses, I Opened The Gate Laughing, Happy Veggies and artist for Safe Energy Handbook and Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty.
George Orbelian is co-founder of Project Kaisei and Ojingo Labs, a technology company that develops innovative smart phone capabilities for which Project Kaisei received the Google Earth Hero award.
Chadd “Onohi” Paishon is the Senior Captain of Na Kalai Wa’a, a non-profit education group based in Waimea Hawaii. The group utilizes their voyaging canoe, Makali’i, and their global voyages on such traditional sailing canoes to promote a cultural understanding of our part in caring for the land and sea. Chadd is 1 of 5 men recognized in Hawaii to hold the rank of Pwo, a non-instrument master navigator.
Rev. M. Kalani Souza is executive director of the Olohana Foundation, a community capacity building nonprofit. As a Hawaiian practitioner and cross-cultural facilitator, he promotes social justice through conflict resolution. He is a storyteller, musician and more