Charlie Powers holds a deep passion for marine mammals and the overall health of our planets oceans. Charlie owned a lodge, commercial fished, taught school, raised a family, and managed a native corporation on Kodiak Island. In the remote village of Old Harbor, Charlie’s students would collect tissue samples from Stellar Sea Lions and Harbor Seals that elders harvested through substance to Kate Wynne at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in cooperation with the Kodiak Marine Science Center. His students collected shellfish in a cooperative venture of developing test kits for Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning. His lodge became the largest employer in the village with a local only policy. Later he was Vice President of Koniag, Inc, where he managed all of its fee simple estate and liaisoned with local villages. In his 30 years of being in coastal communities he has witnessed a rapid decline of sea mammals and fish communities. Charlie Powers founded Powers Land Brokerage, LLC and Panacea which broker the sale of high valued real estate focused on ranches in the Rocky Mountains and lodges in Alaska. His company now wants to give back by finding a way for the Alaska Whale Foundation to grow its endowments and showcase its work.