CO-FOUNDER, CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Ruwi has 30+ years of experience working with Indigenous Peoples, forest management, and social enterprise in Indonesia. Throughout his career, he has founded and led several organizations working in Indonesia and the broader Southeast Asia region such as Telapak, Samdhana Institute, and Forest Watch Indonesia. Ruwi's work has been instrumental in shifting extractive industries to regenerative alternatives, including building a movement to transition from illegal to community logging and away from destructive fishing practices to promoting community enterprises and social entrepreneurship. Ruwi is a committed activist, supporting the struggle of indigenous people, farmers, and fishermen towards ecological, social, and economic integrity.

Ruwi is the recipient of 2012 Ramon Magsaysay Award for emerging leader honored with the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2010 and Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2008. Ruwi hopes to be a fiction writer someday.

CO-FOUNDER, CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

As a first-generation Indonesian American, Dominique is interested in the role that diasporic communities play in supporting Indigenous Peoples. She began her career in public policy with a focus on advancing social equity in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a growing interest in the role of private companies in contributing to social change, she transitioned to the private sector where she served as the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility and Director of Special Projects & Business Intelligence for the Unical group, a supply chain solutions provider serving 3500+ commercial aviation industry customers globally. She currently serves as the Chief of Staff to the CoulsonTan Joint Venture whose aerial fire-fighting work has been featured in 60 minutes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and CBS News.

Dominique is an alumni of the Just Economy Institute’s Integrated Capital Fellowship and serves on the Liberty Hill Foundation’s Environment and Justice Donor Circle Group Steering Committee.

LEAD STRATEGIST

Abdon Nababan is acknowledged as one of the most significant figures in Indonesia’s Indigenous Peoples’ movement. In 1999, after the fall of the Suharto regime, Nababan was one of the organizers of a congress that launched AMAN (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara, or “Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago”), a membership-based organization that has grown to over 115 local chapters and 21 regional chapters throughout the country’s thirty-four provinces. Collectively, AMAN represents over 17 million members. Under NABABAN’s leadership, AMAN won a 2012 landmark constitutional court ruling which returned some 57 million hectares of government-controlled forest land to indigenous communities. Nababan is the 2017 recipient of the Ramon Magsaysay Award.