Stuart Holmes Coleman is a writer, speaker and environmental organizer.  Coleman is the award-winning author of Eddie Would Go, Fierce Heart, and more than 60 published articles on environmental and ocean-related issues. His newest book is called Eddie Aikau: Hawaiian Hero (Bess Press, 2016).  Along with the Eliot Cades Award for Literature, he has won writing fellowships at The Mesa Refuge, The Norman Mailer Center and Vaughan Park in New Zealand.  Coleman has taught writing, literature and leadership development at Punahou and Iolani Schools, the University of Hawai`i and the East-West Center.  He works as the Hawai`i Manager of the Surfrider Foundation. (For more info, go to www.Stuart-Coleman.com.)