Sachie Hopkins Hayakawa

Sachie Hopkins Hayakawa comes from four generations rooted in the Pacific Northwest. In addition to her work with The Wildfire Project, she is an organizer with the New Economy Coalition, working to build solidarity economies and community self-determination. Sachie co-founded the Reinvest in Our Power Project, Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network and the Maypop Collective for Climate and Economic Justice. Sachie has worked with social justice groups across the US and abroad. Through all of her work, Sachie is committed to nurturing resilient communities, defending our rights to land-labor-livelihood, and building people power from the ground up.^[1]

Sachie Hopkins Hayakawa grew up in Portland, OR and is now living and working in Seattle. She began organizing for environmental justice as a student at Swarthmore College, and then carried the work to West Philly, with the other members of the Maypop Collective. These days, Sachie is an organizer with the New Economy Coalition and coordinates the Reinvest in Our Power network, pushing forward community-led solutions for climate and economic justice. Recently, she started working with The Wildfire Project as a trainer and a member of the strategy team. Sachie is committed to building community resiliency, sovereignty, and self-determination.^[2]

Facilitation Team

The Wildfire Project has a team of 17 experienced facilitators, all of whom are leaders in a wide range of movement sectors and issue areas. Many of these practitioner-facilitators emerged from the organizations we’ve partnered with, and now make up our Leadership Team – which is one way that Wildfire is led by its grassroots base. This team keeps us rooted in many different movement arenas, allowing us to cross-pollinate cutting edge innovation and insights from different social change efforts across the country. We are proud that our team is active in the movements they serve on the ground, and distilling these insights allows us to be uniquely multi-sectoral.

Akua Deirdre Smith, Andrew Smith, BJ Star, Catherine Salonek, Claire Bergren, Ileia J. Burgos, Jonel Edwards, Joshua Kahn Russell, Executive Director , Kirin Kanakkanatt, Lex Barlowe, Lu Aya Nephew, Michael Strom, Sachie Hayakawa, Sam Corbin, Sherika Shaw, Sofia Campos, Yotam Marom.