Kayla Hidayat (she/her) is passionate about educating her community on all things climate and social justice. As Soapbox Project's Climate Action Content Manager, Kayla creates online resources to help make your climate action journey easy and fun! Kayla graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Environmental Economics and Policy where she learned how current systems impact our planet and communities. Now she is pursuing her MBA in Sustainability Management, focusing on the intersection of sustainability, social justice, and systems thinking. She brings experience from both nonprofit and corporate roles (like with the Golden State Warriors!), specializing in environmental education and community engagement.

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she loves browsing bookstores, playing board games, and listening to podcasts. Send recs her way!

Nivi Achanta is the founder and CEO of Soapbox Project, a cozy community that helps busy professionals transform their climate anxiety (that's us!) into meaningful change with learning, connection, and joyful action, both in-person and online! She is living her best life, with her best friends, on the best planet, and wants that for you too!

Nivi works, speaks, and writes at the intersection of sustainability, corporate engagement, and community building. She has been featured by the New York Times, Washington Post, Grist, Business Insider, and more for her community and climate work, and was named as a Nasdaq Woman to Watch. Before founding Soapbox Project, Nivi worked with companies like Accenture, Google, Facebook, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she specialized in employee-driven impact.

In addition to her work as a founder, Nivi supercharges community strategy for impact-aligned organizations, specifically focused on gender equality and climate justice. When she's not working on social change, you can find her in Seattle reading 100+ books a year, baking sourdough, and karaoke-ing with friends. You can also lurk on Nivi pretty much everywhere on the internet @niviachanta at your own risk. 😉