Aji Piper grew up in the woods on the Kitsap Peninsula, raised to be conscious of the Earth and how he walks on it. From this upbringing, he developed a deep love and connection to the forest and waters of the Pacific Northwest. He is a frequent volunteer at local food banks and doing forest restoration work with his mother. Aji is president of Plant for the Planet, and founded Earth Guardians Seattle. After learning about oil trains coming through his city and along the coast, he began getting more involved in protests and legislative hearings. As one of 21 youth plaintiffs suing the United States Government in the landmark Climate Case, Aji is taking matters into his own hands. He is also plaintiff on another youth-driven lawsuit demanding that Washington's environmental department act to mitigate climate change. Aji is a powerful performer of activist-driven music.

Rachel Marco-Havens is an artist, creative entrepreneur and community organizer, committed to focusing her time and creativity toward the expansion of solutionary activation. While working to avert a politically sponsored, tax-payer funded, corporate water grab in Woodstock, NY,  she joined forces with RYSE Youth Council Member, Aidan Ferris, to start the first New York Chapter of Earth Guardians. Now, she brings her wide scope of talent to the team at EG Headquarters. As well as aiding to general organization, helping to create platforms for communications between EG crews and nurturing partnerships with other grassroots initiatives, Rachel works to expand the interaction between the RYSE Youth and Wisdom Councils and invigorate the RYSE mission to actualization.