Alisha Shanti Chauhan Bio

Consultant | Educator | Writer | Capacity Builder

As a Consultant, Educator and Writer, Alisha Shanti Chauhan cultivated her passion for Nature during her formative years in Africa's safari lands and her family life in Canada instilled a respect for Nature based-solutions, inspiring her to blend the arts and culture for Watershed Restoration.

With a degree in Biology and Writing, she has two decades of environmental restoration experience in sensitive, remote places, from the Arctic to the islands of Hawai`i, bridging Indigenous communities with multi-stakeholders for Ocean-Climate resilience. 

Alisha co-created the Canadian Climate Change Adaptation Planning Tool-Kit for Indigenous Communities and protective policy at the advent of mining in pristine Arctic watersheds, co-led large-scale, low impact development retrofits along Toronto’s waterfronts, and educated keiki with Reef Guardians Hawai`i and more. 

Based on Maui, she builds community capacity for Blue-Green resilience, leads her Blue Champion Changemakers education and action program including music and wellness beach cleanups, and serves as an Advisory Member of the Papahānaumokuākea Reserve Advisory Council. She loves being in the ocean, sharing her original songs about Mother Nature, and teaching youth to be advocates for our better future.

She believes that Indigenous science is integral for restoration and that the power of community connection through education and action is key to coordinating tangible solutions for our harmonious relation with Planet Ocean, and essentially ourselves—Mother Ocean connects us all.