Team

 TEAM Pack Your Trash:

Harry Conti cares about our coasts and surf spots plagued with trash! Harry is part Ohlone, Native American. Harry was “the enforcer” in Santa Cruz for decades. He's the co-Founder of the Pleasure Point Night Fighters and Pack Your Trash. Harry is the VP of Save Our Seas Hawaii and he continues to spread Pack Your Trash across the world from Santa Cruz to Kauai: places known and unknown: Camp Earth. www.harryconti.com

Jim Phillips is a graphic artist who is best known for his surf and skateboard art. Jim is the co-founder of PPNF and Pack Your Trash. Born in San Jose, CA, he's lived most of his life in Santa Cruz, CA. Jim’s surf art began to appear in the major surf magazines during the 60’s. His earliest jobs were in local surf shops that were manufacturing surfboards, where much of his work was applying art and designs to surfboards. In 1965 and 66 Jim studied fine art under a scholarship at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Phillips became sole artist and art director for NHS Inc. during their early years in the 1970’s and 80’s where he created thousands of decks, t-shirts, stickers, product illustrations and skateboard magazine ads. In 1988 he founded Phillips Studios where he trained young skateboarding artists to create designs for NHS. Jim’s art has grown even more popular in his later days and NHS currently markets his work in 80 countries.  Jim holds the title "art critic" of PPNF and Pack Your Trash. Jim is active with Pack Your Trash promotions and lives with his wife Dolly in Santa Cruz. www.jimphillips.com

Paul Clark is “The Clerk” of Pack Your Trash. He is a University of Hawaii Hilo graduate, coordinator of Save Our Seas Hawaii and is an International distributor of the BCX Ultra Deluxe. Clark and Conti, with Save Our Seas and Pack Your Trash, have donated thousands of stickers to locals and schools that "get the message out" and hold rusted island cars together across the Pacific. At the St. Regis Princeville on Kauai, Paul was the director and owner of the Young Voyagers Club and oversaw all the private childcare and cultural guest activities. Paul was a K-12 marine science and digital media teacher at Kula High, Intermediate, and Elementary School on Kauai’s north shore and specialized in experiential marine monitoring (collecting data while snorkeling) field trips.  He was also the site coordinator for the first online school on Kauai: the Myron B. Thompson Academy. Paul’s business, Earth Surge, was the first Kauai business to provide biodegradable and compostable goods to the island.  He spent 10 years as a tour boat captain on waters of the Na Pali coast, Hilo and Kona.  Paul is a Divemaster and has worked as a scientific diver with UH and the DLNR establishing Marine Protected Areas in West Hawaii. He has three amazing children and likes to explore the backcountry.