Our Consultants

Aurora Flynn, founder & executive director, MEM

Aurora’s passion is understanding and tending the psycho-social fabrics of communities and the inner landscapes of human consciousness to the materialization of the outside world. She works as a regenerative systems consultant, cultural liaison and strategist, climate resilience researcher, facilitator for community dialogue and planning, intuitive guide/coach, teacher and mentor. She has over 15-years experience in transformational work, on both the individual and community level. She has a background in regenerative agriculture/holistic management, climate action planning, community resilience, multiple spiritual disciplines & initiatory journeys, wildlife/evolutionary biology, and filmmaking. She is a research scholar at the Ronin Institute and a certified California naturalist. She’s an herbalist and tracker. She obtained her Masters of Environmental Management at Western Colorado University. She is a filmmaker & did postgraduate training at London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art.

Rich Stromberg, sustainability consultant, MEM

Rich engages communities and teams at the intersection of food, energy, water and waste - critical factors for long-term sustainability and resilience. He has extensive experience working with Indigenous communities of the far north in Alaska and Canada to facilitate their own energy vision and guide them through conceptual design through implementation of community-scale energy and efficiency solutions. Following a 20-year career as an engineer in high tech, Rich focused his studies on journalism before running the wind and solar energy programs for the State of Alaska. He has lived off-grid since 2006 and is presently a faculty researcher and lecturer for energy and environmental sustainability with two universities. Rich is an advocate for the triple bottom line of ecology, equity and economy and believes that social concerns must be understood during problem definition and cause analysis so that they can be part of a comprehensive solution space.