CASCADE MAYER

community engagement coordinator

Hometown: Wailua, Kaua’i, Hawai’i

Current Residence: Ewa Beach, O’ahu, Hawai’i

Cascade earned her Biology degree from the University of Dallas and later a Master's in Marine Science from Hawaii Pacific University. Now in her fourth year with PMDP as Community Engagement Coordinator, she gets to bring Papahānaumokuākea — a place most people will never have the chance to visit — to communities across the pae ʻāina.

Her life motto is simple: always leave it better than you found it. She tries to lives by this on and off the clock, and is stoked to that her job just so happens to allow her to do this in the most amazing place! 

Outside of work, she's usually hiking, getting lost in the mountains, or surfing small waves — still finding new ways to appreciate the places she works to protect.