Jyoti Ma is the Vision Keeper of the Center for Sacred Studies, and co-founded Kayumari.  She helped to convene the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers and Unity Concert.  She founded The Fountain in order to restore an economic model based on reciprocity and collaboration guided by Nature and the Sacred.  She is a delegate of the Mother Earth Delegation of United Original Nations.  Through her work, economic, social and environmental solutions have developed, creatively addressing the global challenges of our times.

Loretta is a Lakota elder committed to ensuring the world is a better place for her grandchildren. She is a keeper of her culture and the female Sundance Leader for the Afraid of Bear/American Horse Sundance. Fluent in Lakota,  she is the only representative who speaks both languages perfectly on the board of the paha Sapa Unity Alliance BlackHills Reparations, another organization with which she is affiliated. Loretta carries an enormous mission: the return of the stewardship of the Black Hills to the peoples of The Great Sioux Nation. “The Black Hills are not for sale. We want all the unseated lands in the Black Hills returned to the nine tribes of The Great Sioux Nation.” She also sits on a number of international boards including the Running strong Foundation, The Sacred Healing Circle, and the Black Hills Unity Alliance. 

Zahra Indigo holds a master’s degree in ecopsychology from Naropa University and is a Minister of Walking Prayer with the Center for Sacred Studies. In addition to her work with The Fountain, Zahra Indigo owns Sacred Witness LLC through which she is grateful to be able to guide transformation and healing by creating a safe space for physical, spiritual, and emotional wellness to blossom. The Gifts of Ma’at, her first book, follows this same intention. Though the spectrum of experiences life has offered, she has discovered something quite profound and most rewarding. As a Sacred Witness to the unfolding complexity, beauty, and mystery of this existence, it is Zahra Indigo’s intention to live life in service to the health of our planet and all who reside here.

Cristin Lin is experienced with non-profit companies and multi-international for-profit agencies. She volunteered for the Carmelite Monastery San Rafael for 10 years as a committee financial director and successfully funded it through the Angel Prayer club. She also serves as Chair for the Marin County Employer Advisory Council. For profit companies, Cristin was a member of the Board of Directors for both Brookhaven Hospital and Rehabilitation Institutes of America for 30 years. Her job duties evolved from Financial Director to Director of Business Operations overseeing Canada and United States operations and included payroll, HR, risk management, and contract negotiation. From these responsibilities as well as her own life experiences, Cristin has come to firmly believe that through small but consistent actions, one person can make the world a better place. In her free time, Cristin has learned and continues to improve in flower arrangement and painting.

Eleonora serves as a cross-cultural advisor, consultant, translator and spiritual interpreter.
She has a background in anthropology, social work, and decolonized yoga practice and teaching.
Her work gets inspiration and guidance through ancestral knowledge and original teachings ,working closely with elders and youth allowing her to bridge and weave earthly based ways of prayer and instruction into loving action for community healing and education for future generations. A woman of prayer, she stands for a conscious stewardship and protection of the lands and waters of our Mother Earth.

For the last 10 years Adriana has been working in Colombia with original peoples from the Amazon Rainforest and La Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta as a community based manager  facilitating the work related to the well-being of these sacred ecosystems. The work involves Land Trusts, Food Security Projects and Indigenous Own Education Program with the  kággabas or Kogis and The Amazonian Indigenous Women Association.