From China to Europe, Canada and French Polynesia, I have had many cultural experiences that led me to continually reinvent myself and contribute to my vision for Moshun. After growing up in France with a modest upbringing as an athlete, I changed course to pursue a career in strategy consulting, working for corporate clients and leaders. Through the years, I experienced a deep disconnection from reality and the state of our world, like most within this sector. In 2019, I began my journey of attunement to nature and use my craft for a higher purpose to protect what I learned to love the most – the Ocean. In step with this trajectory, I joined Coral Gardeners in 2020, working behind the scenes to make the organization what it is today to later pursue my own venture with Moshun in early 2024. 

Moshun embeds everything that I believe in: critical thinking, a radical approach to action, bridging the gaps between different layers of society, and embedding empathy back into our innate human values to care for one another. Moshun is about flipping the narrative from humanity as the great savior of Earth to humbly recognize that before saving comes healing – healing our relationship with nature, our collective guilt and complacency, and revert back to the foundation of what makes us human and one with nature. We have lost so much already, the TIME IS NOW, and it starts with that universal spark inside of us that we call “our humanity”.

Karine Toumazeau