McCarty Baker’s back ground is in Ancient Civilizations, Film Development and Production, Theatre, and Event Coordination. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Art Bridge Association, Inc., a nonprofit organization designed to assist storytellers creating within the disciplines of film, stage and music composition. Some recent, note worthy projects were the films “The Event” and “Me, You and Everyone Else We Know” and an Indigenous Music Conference in New Zealand where indigenous musician from around the world gathered to share rhythms, stories, and song.                                                    

McCarty is also a Founding Producer and Director for HonuaOla, a Hawaiian based nonprofit venture. HonuaOla means ‘Earth, Life, and all things Sacred.’ The organization’s dedication is to this and a revitalized commitment to the humane aspects of our Humanity. To launch the birth of  HonuaOla, this January, a two day event was held at Kamehameha Schools Maui Campus and was an “extravagant” success at coordinating 3 stages and 111 performers and presenters from around the globe to celebrate “Unity through Diversity”— by giving voice to Indigenous Elders, Scientists, Activists, Health Practitioners, Community leaders, Musicians, Dancers, and inspirational Speakers.

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Organizational Challenge:

At HonuaOla, we have challenged our selves with creating a non-traditional organizational structure—more of a “Dolphin Pod” dynamics of leadership—no one chief, so to speak.

While this has worked fairly well for the gestation period and a bit of HonuaOla’s infancy, if this organization is to learn to walk, we will likely need adjustment in our course. WE would be interested to hear of other alternative leadership structure experiments--how they work, if they work, and if they do not, why.