(Founding Design Committee Member) Estakio Beltran: Estakio works with community-based organizations to design systemic solutions that improve social determinants of resilience, advocacy, and health for rural communities.
Estakio weaves his life experiences, educational and professional achievements, and love for the Yakima Valley throughout his work. In October 2020, Philanthropy Northwest honored Estakio with the prestigious Mary Helen Moore Ambassador of the Year Award in recognition of his remarkable leadership and contributions to the sector.

Estakio grew up in foster care, where he lived in multiple placements all over the Valley including the Yakama Reservation— for him this is a stamp of resilience and achievement. He earned his BA from Gonzaga University, and his Masters in Public Administration from Columbia University in New York before returning to the Yakima Valley in 2019 after spending over a decade advising senior members of Congress and high-ranking officials in Washington, D.C as a public policy professional.

Estakio’s success lies in his ability to create a bold vision for systems change through community-driven innovation. 

(Founding Design Committee Member) Karla Brollier: Karla is an artist and systems thinker that focuses on Climate Economics, Kincentric Ecosystems, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Human Rights, Women’s Rights, Emerging Issues, New Economies and System Change.

Karla Brollier is of the Yidateni Na’ Tribe of the Ahtna Athabaskan peoples, she was born and raised in Alaska where she obtained her undergraduate degree as well as an MBA.

Karla is a catalyst in the climate and human rights movement in both the public and private sectors; she has spent much of her career consulting and working in emergent issues such as policy, climate economics, environmental justice and has worked with the Climate Reality Project, the UN and directly with several US administrations and a multitude of international and nationally based climate change related programs and groups such as for the former VP Al Gore and the World Economic Forum. Karla has given plenary presentations at the international level including the WEF, presented at the United Nations, lectured at multiple universities, as well as facilitates and teaches workshops and classes around the globe.

(Founding Design Committee Member) Elisheba Johnson: Elisheba is a curator, poet, public artist, and consultant living in Seattle, WA. Johnson, who has a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts, was the owner of Faire Gallery Café, a multi-use art space that held art exhibitions, music shows, poetry readings, and creative gatherings. 

For six years Johnson worked at the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture on capacity-building initiatives and racial equity in public art. Johnson was a member of the Americans for the Arts Emerging Leaders Network advisory council and has won four Americans for the Arts Public Art Year in Review Awards for her work. She currently co-manages Wa Na Wari, a Black art center in Seattle’s Central Area that uses the arts to build community and resist displacement.