Meet The Team
Hala Kusiak
Hala Kusiak® is the President and Founder of Redwood Global Alliance. An international fine artist, educator, and entrepreneur, she is passionate about connecting people, ideas, and opportunities across cultures. Through Redwood, Hala works to empower innovators, creatives, and organizations by building strategic partnerships, fostering global collaboration, and helping transform meaningful ideas into lasting impact.
John Kusiak
John Kusiak - Treasurer. John is a retired Oil and Gas Professional who is focused on giving back to the community. Besides his role as treasurer, he is a professor of Earth Science, VP of the local homeowners association, member of the local hospital advisory committee and English instructor for international professionals.
Clayton Ferrara
Clayton Louis Ferrara is a millennial biologist and Knighted graduate of Rollins College and Harvard Business School. He is a poet, naturalist, and global nonprofit expert who serves as CEO of the United Nations Accredited Eco-Action nonprofit, IDEAS For Us. Clay also consults and teaches nonprofit excellence for celebrities, iconic brands, and everyday people wanting to change the world. He loves history, the arts, rock and roll, fashion, cars, and especially - turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.
Bathsheba Monk
Artistic Director - is a novelist, publisher, playwright, and film director. She is the publisher of Blue Heron Book Works specializing in memoirs and series fiction which promote diversity of thought, lifestyle, and justice for the earth and its residents. Her on-line magazine Paradise Found was created to highlight the beauty we find around us to counter the fear that threatens to define us.