Built for Communities Creating Environmental Change
OJAI exists to help environmental communities learn, collaborate, and take action through a shared platform built for engagement, knowledge, and collective impact.
Who We Are
OJAI gives you everything you need to build and grow a national and/or global community, all in one unified platform.We're ocean and environmental advocates, researchers, educators, technologists, and community builders who saw a common problem: organizations and community leaders were forced to manage their communities across disconnected platforms, expensive software subscriptions, and tools that were never designed to work together.So we built OJAI: a place-based platform where organizations, communities and educators have everything they need to build thriving membership communities, share knowledge, create learning experiences, showcase impact, and mobilize action, all through one unified platform at a scalable and sustainable cost.
The Problem We're Solving
The problem isn't a lack of information; it's that everything is scattered across disconnected platforms, making it difficult for people to discover, learn, collaborate, and take action.
Communities struggle because:
Members, organizations, and stakeholders are spread across disconnected tools
Resources, research, and opportunities are difficult to discover and share
Community engagement is fragmented across multiple platforms
Valuable knowledge gets lost in websites, PDFs, spreadsheets, and databases
Organizations pay for multiple tools that were never designed to work together
Our Mission
To build the digital infrastructure that enables environmental communities everywhere to connect, learn, collaborate, and take collective action for a more sustainable future.
What This Means in Practice
Everything you need to build, grow, and engage an environmental community; all in one platform. Connect people, organizations, resources, events, opportunities, and learning experiences without paying for multiple disconnected tools. Share knowledge, showcase impact, and mobilize action while keeping your community, content, and data under your control.
Our Vision
A world where every environmental community can easily learn, collaborate, and take action together, without barriers created by cost, complexity, or disconnected technology.
We're building a future where organizations, educators, researchers, advocates, and community leaders have everything they need to connect, learn, collaborate, and mobilize action through one unified platform, creating stronger communities and greater environmental impact at every scale.
Development Team
Founded by Environmental Changemakers Who Lived the Problem
We spent years watching environmental organizations, educators, researchers, and community leaders struggle with the same challenge: the people, knowledge, resources, and opportunities needed to create change were all scattered across disconnected systems.
Germain Bebe, MBA
Co-Founder & President
Co-founder and President of OJAI. An accomplished executive leader, Germain has a passion for leveraging technology and innovation to address pressing environmental challenges and advance social justice. An experienced Generative AI Developer with a strong background in Product and AI Commercialization Strategy, custom AI models, and scalable solutions.
Dr. Tiara Moore
Co-Founder & Chief Ecologist
Environmental Ecologist. Diversity influencer. Co-Founder of OJAI. Founder of Black In Marine Science (BIMS). A trailblazer in marine science, Originally from Greenwood, South Carolina, Dr. Tiara Moore completed her B.S. in Biology in 2011 at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she developed an interest in marine science during a research trip in Costa Rica.