News & Accomplishments
17 short videos have been released so far, all available online — millions of views, thousands of shares, hundreds of repostings
500+ hours of footage — including surfing, b-roll, interviews, presentations, etc.
Notable surfers, from nine countries, who have ridden the Cigarette Surfboards — Mikey February, Jack Johnson, Craig Anderson, Carlos Muñoz, Fergal Smith, Easkey Britton, Cliff Kapono, Dustin Barca, Hannah Bennett, Tevita Gukilau, Kassia Meador, Andrea Kabwasa, Devon Howard, Rob Kelly, Caity Simmers, Legend & Mana Chandler, Sophie Hellyer, Alan Stokes, Marissa Miller, Jett Schilling, Noah Wegrich, Al Cleland Jr., Jai Glindeman
Events we’ve had booths at — World Surf League (WSL) Freshwater Pro 2019, We Love Green Festival Paris 2018, Heal the Bay beach clean-ups, Parley Road Trip Kickoff and Panel, Camp Shred 2020, Save Our Shores Annual Coastal Cleanup Day 2021
Publicity in — The New York Times, NPR Morning Edition, ABC, NBC, KTLA, Lonely Planet, Vice, Shanghai Daily, The Telegraph, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, LA Times, SF Chronicle, “She Surf”, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Direct interviews & Articles — Oceanographic Magazine, Stab Magazine, The Inertia, Parley for the Oceans, Marin Independent Journal, Orange County Register, Santa Cruz Waves, Carve Magazine, KWMR Radio, MegaLab Podcast at The University of Hawaiʻi, Surf Ears “Stories for the Seas”, Good Times Santa Cruz, KSBW 8 Action News, Monster Children Magazine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Surfrider Foundation’s “The Drop”
Footage / videos featured by — CBS 60 Minutes “A Plastic Plague”, Men’s Journal, Save the Waves Coalition x Sales Force, World Surf League, Stab Magazine, Surfer Magazine, Surfline, Teton Gravity Research, Outerknown x SmartWool, RYOT “Futurists: Taylor Lane”, Optimist “Films with Impact”, Quiksilver, X Games, United Nations General Assembly’s Climate Cinema
Speaking Engagements
Oceans Day, Sacramento, 2018
Laura Honda’s third-grade class, 2018
Santa Monica Community College, 2019
Chapman University, via Zoom 2020
Calpoly Surfrider Panel, via Zoom 2020
Ocean Heroes Bootcamp, via Zoom 2020
O’Neill Sea Odyssey’s Ocean Science Series, via Zoom 2021
O’Neill Sea Odyssey’s Virtual Earth Day Event, via Zoom 2021
Awards