Hilary Sloane is a journalist, documentary photographer, storyteller, and interviewer whose work is rooted in curiosity about people—who we become, what shapes us, and what happens when we begin listening to one another.

She is the creator and host of Driftwood Conversations, a podcast featuring artists, scientists, writers, musicians, educators, and others whose lives and work offer a way into broader conversations about creativity, resilience, community, and what it means to be human.

Hilary is also the founder of What’s Good in the World, a nonprofit initiative, fiscally sponsored through AHA Projects, creating opportunities for people to connect through stories, conversation, and creative experiences. The project grew naturally from years of interviewing and photographing people and from Hilary's belief that some of our most meaningful discoveries happen when people who might never otherwise meet are brought into conversation.

Rohini is an Indian-born British writer, mentor and consultant who has been living in the California Mojave desert for over a decade. 

Much of her work inhabits thresholds and ontologies, exploring relationships between land and body, and of the traumatic origins of our dominant socio-cultural systems that have created a harmful split in our subjective experience of these interdependent relationships. 

She works one-to-one with people across the intersections of decoloniality and indigeneity, through the lenses of mythology, ecological wisdom and trauma-informed Somatic Experiencing practice, among various other modalities. Her membership container and podcast, Root + Rise, focuses on these topics, offering sustainable pathways regenerative resolution and healing. In her consultancy work, she tailors these pathways for companies and organizational leaders. 

Katie Nartonis is a gallerist, writer, journalist, curator, auction specialist, television producer, and documentary filmmaker. Her first career was in film and television, and she won a Humanitas award and an Emmy nomination for HBO’s “The Sissy Duckling” (about a little gay duck) written by Harvey Firestein and starring Sharon Stone, Melissa Etheridge, and Ed Asner. She later transitioned to the fine auction field, where she spent two decades working in the 20th Century Decorative Arts (Design) departments at LAMA (Los Angeles Modern Auctions), Butterfields, Bonhams and Heritage auction companies.

Her own documentary films include In Tandem: The Life and Work of Jerry and Evelyn Ackerman (2015) and Jack Rogers Hopkins: California Design Maverick (2023). Both films premiered as featured events at the Palm Springs Art Museum during Palm Springs Modernism Week. She has appeared on PBS for Craft in Americaas a West Coast Design Specialist and in documentary films on artist/makers Wendell Castle and Garry Knox Bennett. 

Wayne Kastning, an artist, designer, and teacher whose life journey spans from a remote farm in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas to the creative worlds of New York and Los Angeles.

Brenda Littleton is a writer, Jungian coach, educator, and advocate for the role of creativity and imagination in how we come to know ourselves and participate in the world. Drawing from decades across education, mental health, corporate life, and the creative arts, her work brings together depth psychology, writing, somatic Active Imagination, and place-based learning. She works primarily with leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs, grounded in Jung’s understanding that personal growth involves making conscious what has remained unconscious and that creativity can be one of the ways we do so.

Her term personal literacy describes how we learn to read ourselves, others, culture, and the places in which we live. Influenced by the French concept of terroir, she explores how landscape, relationship, imagination, and story shape who we become and our responsibility for conscious participation in community.