Makers

Imagineer

Mihae Mukaida

Mihae swung from the concrete canyons of NYC into the jungles of Nicaragua, landing at the perfect time to help craft an image of TreeCasa that matched the power of the vision. She's a designer yes, but also a teller of tall tales that she pours her heart into making come true. She has transformed TreeCasa, and it transformed her... no better telling of the story we all intended to write.

Story Spinner

Trang Cao

A sorceress among storytellers, Trang is responsible for many of the words written about us, weaving narratives that inspire other creative and dynamic sorts to come find us in the jungle and add another layer to the TreeCasa story themselves. She also organized the first wave of the [email protected] volunteer brigade and helped create the ethos of that program, which is at the core of the TreeCasa mission. All that, and she can whip up some righteous Vietnamese victuals.

Queen Maker

Kelsey Coleman

Kelsey heads the [email protected] program, recruiting artists, chefs, and makers of all stripes to come down and Make their Mark. Rarely caught without a smile on her face, she breathes the optimism and positivity that power the TreeCasa experience.

Don Fun

Joey Coleman

Joey adds his lifelong sense of adventure to the TreeCasa experience, leading guests out on the trials and down to the beaches, all the while pumping out clever social media content. Fun fact: his left arm is 2 feet longer than his right, which is why he's the Selfie King.

Dirty Dirty Man

Chris Boyles

For an Englishman Chris loves to get down in the dirt, spending most of his time here optimizing farm-to-table production in the garden, ramping up composting and recycling programs on site, and on the cleaner side of things dabbling in a surf-modeling career.

Food Nut

Kailani King

Lani is a food nut, obsessed with victuals that taste great and deliver health and wellness too. At TreeCasa she helped create special menus for yoga retreats and the [email protected] volunteer program (the famous Buddha Bowls being a star), and pioneered the "homemade at TreeCasa" program with kombuchas, garden-herb sea salts, Green Goddess dressings and more. In her spare time she could be found talking to the turtles about plant-based eating.

Guest Chef

Alana Joy Eckhart

Alana is an accomplished chef with stints at the French Laundry, among other fancy top-shelf eateries. She's also a big-time animal advocate and leader of the goat-yoga program at Goatlandia in Northern California. We were lucky enough to have her and Deborah Blum inaugurate our guest chef program, and look forward to working with the two of them in California, Nicaragua and beyond to promote the health benefits and insane tastiness of plant based eating. When not eating her veggies, Alana survives on donuts and milk (organic of course).

Guest Chef

Deborah Blum

Apart from owning some of our favorite restaurants in San Francisco (Berretta & more...) , Deb is a pilot, art-car builder and all-around doer of things good and creative. She spends much of her time now running Goatlandia, a farm animal sanctuary in California, and promoting the benefits of plant-based eating by making stunning gourmet meals there. Deb and Alana were our very first guest chefs, and we can't wait to have them back!