I guide communities (Catalyst Now), navigate whānau (Indigenous Commons Guardian), empower women (Her Many Voices Foundation), and protect ancestral knowledge (Te Mana Consortium) – a woven tapestry of my purpose.

Chief Lee Plenty Wolf is a man of many dedications. He is Spiritual Leader and Chief of the Oglala Lakota from the Pine Ridge, South Dakota Reservation. He served as Spiritual leader at the Oceti Sakowin camp at Standing Rock Reservation, to help protect land, people, and resources. Lee is also Chief at the Plenty Wolf Sundance in Manderson, South Dakota and Spiritual advisor of the non-profit White Horse Creek Council. On top of being a U.S. Army Veteran, Chief Plenty Wolf is also drum keeper for the Plenty Wolf Singers and Special Events Manager of the Boulder Valley Indigenous Peoples Day Parade and Pow Wow.

Artist Tommy Nahulu is a native Hawaiian whose interests and passions revolve around his love and support for the planet and humanity.

Serving and protecting the homeless community, displaced women, and children, is of great significance to him, in large part due to his own personal experiences.

His years growing and harvesting hemp in Colorado have helped make him a knowledgeable and active member of the hemp community. 

Tommy is our newest board member.

Ms Cantave is an educator. She has a BA in Psychology, has been a teacher in the NYC public school system and now teaches financial education to underserved populations. She is Haitian and is providing land for HMVF to use for hemp growth and business development. Her father and mentor, Montaigue Cantave, was Haiti's Minister of Agriculture. He worked closely with the UN, FAO and USAID, building tight relationships for many years, with Tamara in tow. Tamara Cantave is certainly a manifestation of her father's legacy.

Bonita Velez is a born and raised New Yorker. She is a graduate of LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and holds a Master of Fine Arts in dance.

 As a dancer, Bonita spent most of her career with Joan Miller's Chamber Arts Ballet Company in the role of Principal and Assistant Artistic Director. She also worked and performed with Sheila Kaminsky and Dancers, Ballet de Puerto Rico, Rael Lamb, Eleo Pomare, Rod Rodgers and Chuck Davis.

 For many years Bonita was an adjunct lecturer in the dance department of Lehman College of The City University of New York. She is a retired certified high school dance teacher for the New York Board of Education.

The Reverend Heidi McGinness is an ordained Presbyterian Minister who served as Director of Outreach for Christian Solidarity International-USA 2004 - 2018. CSI-USA is a Christian Human Rights Organization that originated in Switzerland in 1978. CSI assists victims of jihad, war, and persecution. Sixteen trips since 2004 to war-torn Sudan with CSI have catapulted Pastor McGinness into becoming a modern-day abolitionist and passionate defender of the victims of slavery, genocide and persecution of ALL people.

Gabriel Hicks has an extensive education history, including a Bachelor in Business/Accounting, an MBA, a Master of Accounting and Financial Management, and a graduate certificate in Information system Management. He currently works as the Chief Accounting Officer for Hick Accounting Service, Inc., where he has been providing tax, accounting, and consulting services to individuals and businesses over the past 9 years. 

Chenoa Francis belongs to the Dineh and Hopi tribes. Chenoa has been a volunteer for Spirit of the Sun and Four Winds American Indian Council. She has actively attended events and gotten her hands dirty in the Indigenous garden. She has also spoken about many topics, including racism (We are not a mascot), Indigenous rights and everything in between. She has travelled extensively around Colorado as an invited guest speaker, visiting schools, conferences, and the Colorado State Capital on behalf of bettering our future for the next seven generations to come.