Our Team
Danica Levesque
Strategist in Residence
Co-Lead, Software team
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Danica is a strategist, systems thinker, and transformation guide who thrives at the intersection of vision and execution. As reGEN’s Strategist in Residence, she brings clarity and cohesion to the development of the StoryHUB and Media Journeys—bridging the gap between visionary ideas and technical implementation.
With a background leading cross-functional teams, including as President of a SaaS logistics company, Danica aligns purpose with product by facilitating collaboration, leading market research, and ensuring our technology reflects reGEN’s mission. She’s also the founder of Larch Legacy, where she supports leaders and organizations through thoughtful, play-rooted transformation.
A nature lover and mom of five, Danica brings grounded presence and strategic insight to every step of the journey.
Charlene SanJenko
Founder & CEO
Co-Lead, reGEN impact media
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Charlene SanJenko is a two-time Indigenous founder with a solid corporate background in investment services, marketing & communications, community economic development, politics, and impact production, dedicated to radically transforming how creative resources are allocated and to whom, for the highest purpose of all our relations.
Charlene is from the Splatsin tribe, the most southern tribe of the Shuswap Nation in British Columbia and now resides on the beautiful Sunshine Coast since 2004, the traditional territory of the Squamish (skwxwú7mesh) First Nations. Charlene is in the process of reconnecting with her culture and her nation (as documented through her short film, Coming Home), a journey that began in 2015 with her status finally confirmed in 2019.
Read Char's Founder Story here
Learn about Char's upcoming film Coming Home For the Children here
Morna MacGillivray
Founder, Revolutionary Woman Global
Community Building Partner, reGEN Impact Media
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Morna MacGillivray is a global leader in transformational education, movement-building, and post-singularity leadership, guiding women to lead from the future they’re here to create.
As the founder of Revolutionary Woman Global (RWG), she’s building the infrastructure for matriarchal leadership in an age shaped by AI, planetary transition, and cultural upheaval. Her work activates women to bring their Best Work into the world, with clarity, creativity, and collective power.
For over two decades, Morna has designed breakthrough leadership programs, co-created cross-cultural coalitions, and convened communities of practice across continents. Her approach blends bi-cultural wisdom, embodiment, and future-aligned frameworks like the 4-Square, supporting women to lead not just ethically, but revolutionarily.
As the Community Building Partner at reGEN Impact Media, Morna helps shape regenerative media ecosystems that center collective intelligence, cultural integrity, and relational design. She supports the growth of meaningful, movement-aligned communities that are brave enough to tell the truth and visionary enough to shape what comes next.
Naomi McDougall Jones
Global Artistic Director; Lead, reGEN films
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Naomi McDougall Jones is a 13x award-winning Hollywood Filmmaker and author. She's spoken at film conferences and festivals around the world, and her TEDTalk, What's it's Like to be a Woman in Hollywood has been viewed over a million times.
Naomi’s first book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood, debuted as a #1 Amazon bestseller and received an electric critical response, with The Christian Science Monitor calling it, “...an outpouring of passion that will change the ways in which movies are seen,” and is now available wherever books are sold. Naomi is currently at work on her second book, Vivisection of a White Woman (by the Ghost of Ernest Hemingway and a Whole Host of Ancestors).
As a storyteller and future-weaver, Naomi has helped hundreds of authors and filmmakers to bring their stories to life. Naomi launched Avalon: Story -- a center of practice designed to incubate and birth a new media ecosystem and brought together 60 filmmakers in a Constellation Incubator designed to scale innovation within the independent film industry and apply design thinking to reimagine a more equitable and sustainable ecosystem - from development, film finance, production, to marketing and distribution. She is a Founder of The 51 Fund, dedicated to financing films by women. Their films Cusp and Shayda both premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award respectively.
Dr. Kasia Wilk-Mortensen
Advisor, Transpersonal Psychology
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Samantha Panter
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Rochelle Grayson
AI Business Models & Strategy Advisor
Mayumi Rollings
Creative Tech Advisor, Tiny Ghost Studios.
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Mayumi Rollings is a visionary storyteller and creative catalyst dedicated to opening doors for underrepresented voices. As a queer, BIPOC woman working at the intersection of art and technology, she champions inclusive pathways that honor human imagination above algorithms. Mayumi believes creativity is a birthright and works to dismantle barriers that keep diverse creators from thriving. Her leadership is rooted in equity, empowerment, and the conviction that technology should expand, not limit, our shared human potential.
Hillary Samson
Business Advisor
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Hillary works to develop the evolution of a business's practices–aligning your business to its soul’s purpose.
Her two decades as an operations consultant for social good organizations has left her with a deep understanding of how to optimize systems for profitability. In Transforming Ventures, she works to reimagine and reshape capitalism to operationalize for other values, too–like kindness, courage, trust, and diversity.
Sonal Gupta
Editor and Regenerative Journalist
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Sonal Gupta is an award-winning journalist, documentary producer, and editor based in Vancouver, BC. Originally from India, Sonal’s media journey began with a curiosity about visual storytelling. After moving to Los Angeles, she immersed herself in documentary production, where she navigated the tension between authenticity and spectacle in a commercially driven industry. This experience motivated her to create narratives that not just inform but inspire change.
From India to Vietnam, the United States to Canada, Sonal has reported on issues ranging from climate change to healthcare equity and systemic inequality with hands-on experience in Global Reporting and Solutions Journalism.
Vije Bhatia
Creative Director and Writer
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As a Creative Director and Writer, Vije brings a unique blend of creativity and strategic thinking to every project. With extensive experience in public relations, creative production, and storytelling, he specializes in crafting compelling narratives that engage audiences and drive meaningful impact.
Vije's professional journey has included leading public art initiatives, managing high-profile campaigns, and overseeing complex projects that require both visionary leadership and meticulous attention to detail. He excels at transforming ideas into powerful visual and written content, ensuring each project resonates with its intended audience.
Passionate about the art of storytelling, Vije believes in using creativity as a tool to inspire, connect, and influence.
Martin Robson
Generative AI Specialist; Canadian Data Storage, Robson Inc.
Aaron Cruikshank
Go-To-Market Strategy; Data-Backed Decision-Making, Market Intelligence
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As a Black child born in 1971, Ben was adopted in Seattle and raised by white parents in a tough neighbourhood in East Vancouver, BC. He experienced relentless violence, bullying, and racial discrimination.
As a way to overcome fear and self-loathing, Ben became a competitive boxer, wrestler, and bodybuilder. These positive outlets allowed Ben to channel his hurt, anger, and frustration, eventually owning a gym, helping others as a successful personal trainer and mentoring youth as a community care worker.
Ben’s many years working as a nightclub bouncer gave him unique insight into the universal quest for self-acceptance, love, and happiness. Now he works to help men move past their own pain.
Willow Smith
Impact Communications & Audio Lead
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Willow Smith is a mixed-race millennial whose experience in audio and video began as a hobby. Now a voice actor, the co-host of her own podcast - Loving Goliath - and audio lead for reGEN Media, she’s taken her hobby to a whole new level under the umbrella of reGEN and The Goliath Foundation.
While still new to the industry, she believes a pair of fresh eyes can proceed without the pre-established rules of how things should be or have been, and applies this to all facets of her work. Using divergent creativity and a wide skillset, she’s driven to seeing radical change in how things are done and the ways in which people are treated, regarded, compensated and valued.